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[LordShiva]

India-Pakistan-Bangladesh tri-series in Pakistan.

India 330-8 bt Pakistan 190 all out by 140 runs

[BeBMan]

I have no idea of cricket, but those numbers sound impressive

[LordShiva]

They are

[Cort Haus]

50 overs?

[LordShiva]

Yes. They're playing a mysterious and ancient form of teh game in which each inning apparently lasts 50 overs

[EPW]

Jones had taken his wife to a cricket match. She sat through the first innings although plainly bored. In the second innings a batsman gave a tremendous swipe and knocked the ball out of the ground. 'Thank goodness they got rid of it,' she sighed. 'Now we can all go home.'

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Yes. They're playing a mysterious and ancient form of teh game in which each inning apparently lasts 50 overs

:chuckle:

20-20 is good fun, but it is killing the art of the long game. It is the quickie knee-trembler compared to the tantric experience of the two-innings game. Now sloggers are set to make millions while players with more technique will be on the scrapheap.

As for the poor bowlers...

[LordShiva]

Interesting...

The Champions League will involve the finalists of the domestic Twenty20 competitions in England, Australia, India and South Africa. The recently completed Indian Premier League, featuring multimillion dollar franchises loaded with international stars, is the only one not made up primarily of players eligible for their national teams.

IPL finalists Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings will join Pretoria's Titans and KwaZulu Natal from South Africa in the Champions League, along with Western Australia and Victoria and the two English competition finalists. The English Twenty20 competition starts on Wednesday.

[Maquiladora]

Kevin Pietersen Reverse Shots v New Zealand

[EPW]

If soccer is weird, then cricket is insane

[LordShiva]

Re: Kevin Pietersen Reverse Shots v New Zealand

Originally posted by Maquiladora

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[Cort Haus]

A fine knock from Pjeterson. Bring on the Saffas!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Badfuzzy
If soccer is weird, then cricket is insane

It's actually perfectly simple...

The Rules of Cricket
as Explained to a foreign visitor

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.

Howzat?

[EPW]

So...its exactly like baseball without the bases?

[LordShiva]

Not quite. It's much better