Topic: What the fuck is up with Cricket? (Read 3997 times)

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(Yeah I'm a pussy and bad childhood experience of getting a fuckin ball in my face..... I prefer to play with windballs heh)
I tried to catch a fucking GOLFBALL when I was younger and it hit me just under the eye. God that was HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE...

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Yeah, watching Cricket is a disgrace but it's a laugh to play.

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man if you dont understand cricket youre really dumb. its a really simple game.

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Do you get the same feeling from seeing, say, American Football?
no because we're not fucking retarded
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Cricket is the most boring sport in the world, some games are like 3 days in hell.
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I was never interested in Cricket either. Granted, I can see it as fun to play in the park when I'm bored or something, or even on the beach sometimes, but for the most part I never really got how it could become a professional sport. Oh well.
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Do you get the same feeling from seeing, say, American Football?

No, when I watch American Football I wonder why they need so much padding. I wonder what would happen to them if they tried to run around for more than 5 seconds in a row. I wonder what would happen to them if they played a real sport like Rugby Union. I wonder why one guy is getting paid so much money to kick the ball three, maybe four, times in the whole game. What I don't wonder about is why it isn't popular in more countries, because that is freaking obvious.
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not necessarily but fuck lets not get into that.

I don't see how else the team can win. Unless you mean if the team gets enough runs to make it impossible for the other team to win, but this is the same thing really
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if a match with a time limit (one-day international etc.) is stopped for any reason (poor weather for instance) while the chasing team are batting then play can't be resumed at another time, so the Duckworth-Lewis method is used to determine whether the chasing team could have won the match in the remaining overs. It's a complicated calculation of run-rate, balls remaining and wickets that have already been taken, but the long and the short of it is a team with fewer runs can be awarded the victory with this method if they were maintaining a good run-rate before play is stopped.

this happened very recently! the series was tied 1-1 so the last one-day international was the decider. new zealand batted second and by the 35th over had 211 runs for 5 wickets, when rain stopped play.  using the D/L method it was decided that they were over the required run-rate to beat the west indies' score of 293, so new zealand were awarded the victory and thus won the series 2-1.

by the time you have finished working this out the entire crowd has fallen asleep. this is why cricket is not a great spectator sport!
Last Edit: January 23, 2009, 12:19:16 am by Rockman
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I don't know how it is in other parts of the world but in the West Indies, people watch cricket religiously. Ironically, W.I.'s team sucks ass but people still watch.
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I'm still confused.

Baseball is so much easier.
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What's there to be confused about?

You have batsmen on opposites sides. A bowler bowls a ball. The batsman hits the ball. The batsmen make runs up and down the pitch before the fielders try to get the ball and hit the wicket with it, or you're out. Or if the ball is caught by a fielder, you're out.
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In my experience, cricket is a pretty terribly boring sport and exists largely as an excuse for boring upper-middle-class people to get drunk. It's baseball that takes too long (more time for cheap beer).
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From what I've seen of the sport, it's a lot more watchable than baseball or soccer is for me, but American football is probably the only sport I really enjoy watching, aside from the occasional hockey game.
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asdf 'soccer' is the most watched sport in the world you're crazy
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Can there be a filter for soccer. Any 'soccer' on this forum becomes 'football'
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all you soccers will be footballs
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It's so boring to watch though :(
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Soccer is one of the only sports I've ever enjoyed watching on TV.  I generally don't like watching sports so it's not like I do this often but the few times I've ended up watching sports on TV, this was the one I liked watching.  I can't stand watching football, I can't stand watching baseball, and I can't stand watching basketball.


The other one is curling just because I have never seen more angry people doing such a non-angry sport.  Curling isn't on TV very often but the time that I did see it on it was just the angriest Canadian woman taking things way too seriously.
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hockey's the best let's just face it........
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I went to a few hockey games when I was little but I can barely remember it.  I don't even think that hockey team still exists anymore.
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