Who wants to bet if they are guilty?

[Dauphin]

I have a tip...PM me and we can talk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11124962

Three Pakistan cricket players have been questioned by police over claims they were involved in a betting scam, the team manager has said.

Yawar Saeed said cricket was not "institutionally corrupt" in Pakistan, and the claims were unproven.

etc.

Pakistan is as infamous for corruption as Nigeria is for scams. It's amost a joke to say otherwise.

[Snotty]

Orf with their heads!

[Thoth]

Sounds like a sucker bet to me.

I don't follow cricket, how common are "no-balls" normally?

[Al B. Sure!]

Why is this not in the Sports Forum?

[Dauphin]

1 in 200 deliveries if you are English or Australian. 1 in 60 if you are Pakistani.

[Dauphin]

Why is this not in the Sports Forum?

Because it's just not cricket.

[Cort Haus]

Why is this not in the Sports Forum?

Because this bleak and desolate place, bereft of any interesting topics, needs something worthwhile in it. Although fairplay to C0ckney - his thread was good.

[Cort Haus]

It is also, as Dauphin alluded to, about more than just cricket.

[Al B. Sure!]

Cricket sucks... it's like a dumb version of baseball which sucks as is. And it's even ****ing longer than baseball which is unfathomable! I mean really? Games that last for days?! With lunch breaks?! What is this?!

[Al B. Sure!]

Because it's just not cricket.

I assume you mean "Because it's not just cricket," my English friend. So what else is it? A possibly BNP-inspired discussion on the corruption of Pakis?

[Thoth]

1 in 200 deliveries if you are English or Australian. 1 in 60 if you are Pakistani.

So the odds of getting 3 no-balls in one game are pretty low.

Sounds like guilty to me.

[Dauphin]

I assume you mean "Because it's not just cricket," my English friend. So what else is it? A possibly BNP-inspired discussion on the corruption of Pakis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Just_Not_Cricket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7955406.stm
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/cricket/icc-its-just-not-cricket-as-john-howard-stumped/story-e6frepmo-1225886849902

etc

Learn English/Australian idioms.

[Dauphin]

So the odds of getting 3 no-balls in one game are pretty low.

Sounds like guilty to me.

Quite high odds, most games have several hundred deliveries. It's a question of when they occur.

[Cort Haus]

Cricket sucks... it's like a dumb version of baseball which sucks as is. And it's even ****ing longer than baseball which is unfathomable! I mean really? Games that last for days?! With lunch breaks?! What is this?!

The best bit about Test Cricket is that you can play for five days and not get a result. This was specially designed to piss off clueless, impatient American phucktards who insist on weighing in with their utterly pointless opinions on sports which have no interest or relevance to them, and which are absolutely none of their business.

[MikeH]

Does he think games that last for days without meal breaks would be better?