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Re: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: FromTheRafters
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:53
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Oldus Fartus wrote:
> On 28/02/2012 4:34 AM, SeaNymph wrote:
>
> snippety snip snip
>
>>
>> The only game I couldn't tolerate was cricket. We went over to St.
>> David's island when I was living in Bermuda to see a cricket match and
>> honestly, it was the most boring thing I'd ever seen.
>>
>
> I know what you mean - it can be very boring to watch, particularly when
> the viewer doesn't really understand the game. (And can be boring to
> watch even when the viewer does understand the game.)
>
> 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 thats been in goes out and tries to get those
> coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
>
> When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out,
> and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
> There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they
> decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and
> all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all
> the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end
> of the game!
>
> Understand it now :-)

Thank for explaining the ins and outs of Cricket.
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