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...plus the cricket bats are lousy for bustjng heads...

We can take an interval for tea

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Quote: rfreed

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Quote: victor nicholas

Why did the Americans decide to use a round bat when the cricket bat
Improves probability of contact?

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Because we like drawing things like this out as much as possible.

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to quote the greatest cricketer of all time, W.G.Grace,

"It would have been better if they left us buzzing in the trees instead of sending the crowd into a deep state of boredom"

Unquote

Indians love cricket and this proves his point!

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Quote: Bill Cosby

Americans view cricket as a sissy game, they prefer violent and devious contact sports like football, boxing, and basketball a game of stealing the ball from the opponents hands.

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You know better than I, Bill, but it seems so unlikely.

Surely, they remember this:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/30219440

And this wasn't the first, by any means.

I, myslef, was hit in the eye socket by a cricket ball when I was but nine years old. Here's what happened:

We were 'learning' P.E. at Wold Junior High School, and Mr Norton, the teacher, told Tony Marsh, the wicketkeeper, to get his pads on. For some reason, Tony asked me to help him buckle the pads, instead of doing them himself. I thought nowt of it, and knelt down behind him. He was at the wicket. This is important.

Meanwhile, Phil Trotter, a bowler with some pace, began his run-up, unaware that I was still doing up the straps to Tony's pads. Do you know what happened next?

Phil sends down a rather fast delivery, and the batsman (identity unknown to me at this juncture) misses outside the off stump. All Tony has to do is to catch the ball, but it is a bit of a low delivery having shot through off a less-than-perfect wicket. Instead, he shuffles aside, presumably forgetting he is wearing the perfect protection to avoid injury, but THAT I AM NOT.

I decided to put an end to this nonsense by stopping the progress of the seamed leather-encased ball with my left eye. There were screams.

Two years later, whilst batting during lunchtime practice, Trevor Pitts bowled one down at me that reared up off the pitch and caught me smack in the middle of my forehead. There were stars.

I loved cricket. It's not sissy, no matter what the Americans think.

Love,

Moys

xxx

If Cricket is Sissy then what does that make Baseball? What other sport is so boring you get up mid-way and sing, Take Me Out To the Ball Game? Beer, Brats and Hotdogs are needed to watch the pitcher scratch, yawn, and touch their privates in a dozen different ways before throwing a pitch that breaks the bat,which flys and kills a 2 year old in the first row of seats down the first baseline. OH that's why its exciting! Close second to paint peeling if you ask me. Love to play, hate to watch...