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Nov
Australia seals crushing victory
England lost their last five wickets for just 77 runs in 90 minutes to be all out for 370 half an hour before lunch on the fifth day after resuming on 293 for five chasing 648 to win.
I read that as “England lost…. something…. half an hour…. lunch…. something… something…. resuming… something-something…. five chasing something…. to win.”
I once asked an English friend of mine to translate a Cricket story in the paper, to tell me who won, because after reading the story in its entirety, I couldn’t tell; it took him many, many moments to tell me that no one had in fact won, that the game was still ongoing. That’s several orders cooler than anything that makes its way into our papers.
This site purports to explain Cricket, but it’s in some sort of code. Also, this site explains via Flash the history of Cricket from an Australian perspective.
Cricket is undeniably silly and possibly cool. I would like to see a comparison of the rules of Cricket vs. the rules of NFL football. American football has a buttload of crazy rules, but I wonder how it stacks up against Cricket. I know there are are NFL rules that are all about TV commercials, so we have that going for us.
Is it true that you have to drink tea to play Cricket, much like our Gatorade? The site you link to omits any mention of tea.
+drew
November 29th, 2006 at 12:38 am