The Ashes

[crazycanuck]

Hello,

Anyone out there a cricket fan & planning on watching the series???

Tell me your thoughts. Will Ricky ponting and company win the ashes back?

c

[Trekhawk]

Hello,

Anyone out there a cricket fan & planning on watching the series???

Tell me your thoughts. Will Ricky ponting and company win the ashes back?

c

Of course - thrash the Poms we will (LOL what else do you expect an Aussie to say). No TV at my house so I might need you to fill me in on the highlights.

[light_sabe_r]

not a cricket fan (Find the game LONG and boring...) plus the sight of shane warne makes me wanna vomit.

Aussies to win. ^_^

Send the pommies home!

[crazycanuck]

Hey trek,

The Ashes start today.

Check out www.news.bbc.co.uk or www.news.com.au as perhaps they can keep you updated.

I'll ask if there's radio coverage & perhaps you can listen on the net.

I would tape it for you but ya don't have a tv...

c

[light_sabe_r]

You wouldn't believe the number of people who took work off yesturday to go and see the ashes. It was a TRAFFIC nightmare here in Bris-vegas...

[Thistle]

You wouldn't believe the number of people who took work off yesturday to go and see the ashes. It was a TRAFFIC nightmare here in Bris-vegas...

Yay....troublesome childish workmate went home yesterday to watch the cricket Have now decided even though i find the game incredibly boring we should have much more of it if the child will stay home watching it

[Trekhawk]

Hey trek,

The Ashes start today.

Check out www.news.bbc.co.uk or www.news.com.au as perhaps they can keep you updated.

I'll ask if there's radio coverage & perhaps you can listen on the net.

I would tape it for you but ya don't have a tv...

c

Thanks CC I will check out the links.

[crazycanuck]

I'm not a huge cricket fan but at the moment it's 5/513!!!

wowie...

trek-http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/default.stm

[kelownagirl]

I have never seen a cricket game in my life and have no idea what the ashes is or who the poms are. Hwever, I am intrigured by a game that could have a score of 5/513. That can't possible mean one team has scored 513 goals or runs or however they keep score? How DO they keep score then?

[crazycanuck]

Trek-more links to listen to the matches:
http://www2b.abc.net.au/utilitycentr...ket_stream.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainf...rtsextra.shtml

Hey KG...I'm here to try and give you a bit of info on cricket. I'm going to to post a few links as we could be here all day!!! Forgive me if i've explained it a bit funnily but i'm trying to explain it in my head..

Ian has always said that Cricket was a sport the English invented to bore nations to death...

If you do visit the links-the place names are well known down under. The "Gabba"is the cricket ground in Brissie, The SCG is the cricket ground in Seeedney, the MCG is the most famous cricket ground (am I correct aussie ladies..?) in Melbourne and the WACA is the cricket ground in Perth.

Anywho-The Poms are the English cricket team. I'm sure the ladies in the UK will give me poos about calling the English Poms...It's a term we use out of love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poms

The Ashes test series is between Australia & England.

The 5/602 means the Australians have made 602 runs over 5 wickets. (f you're unsure what wickets are-the round wooden things at each end of the pitch.) There are two batsman at either end. When the ball is bowled, the batsman obviously hits the ball or in some cases perhaps not & then runs to the other end changing places with their team mate. The number of times they run is the 602. The 5 wickets means a ball has struck one of the wickets & one of the batsman is out.

Did that make some sense?

Here are some links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/ashes/0,,,00.html

Oh and btw..believe it or not Canada and the US have National cricket teams....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...et_Association


If you need any more info,Trekhawk might be able to help us...!!!

c

[crazycanuck]

Trekhawk..have you been able to follow much of the first test?

c

[salsabike]

The Guardian does a nice job of writing up football games and out of general affection for CrazyCanuck, I've been looking at their Ashes stuff. The Guardian always makes me laugh, also. Looks like England is just getting hammered.

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/ashes200...957579,00.html

[Trekhawk]

Trekhawk..have you been able to follow much of the first test?

c

Just a little - Im pleased to see we gave the Poms a good thrashing in the first Test. The English Captain seems to think they can recover and take the second so it should make for some good cricket.

[light_sabe_r]

Yup Margo... The canadian and the Mandarin chinese here at work seem to get it now. ^_^ So it must've done some good

But Yeah... HEBREW would be hard. lol

[LittleBlackDuck]

Hope this clears it up for those of you who don't know the rules of cricket:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been 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 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 are 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.

Now don't tell me after reading that that you're STILL confused .

Scary as it seems, if you know the rules of cricket and you read the above carefully, all of it makes sense .