Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 03:58:51 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96CFC75DCE1923v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> Jim Larson wrote in >> news:Xns96CFC22AEDC403v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>>> news:Xns96CFDE15631E2joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: >>>> >>>>> weirdwolf wrote in >>>>> news:Xns96D01C9E93F81r73u67jw56nas@62.253.170.163: >>>>> >>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>>>>> news:Xns96CFDD9BC2B98joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: >>>>>> >>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote in >>>>>> news:Xns96D0D6E2C7EEr73u67jw56nas@ >>>>>>> 80.5.182.99: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>>>>>> news:Xns96CFADE3576BB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96CFABF07B48F3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Kath wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Yay! >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> (?) >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I was saying to Claire, for all the excitment it brings and >>>>>>>>>> the fame of the competition it must be the smallest trophy in >>>>>>>>>> sport. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If by "small" you mean "totally irrelevant to anyone outside >>>>>>>>> my benighted island and its former penal colony" then yes. Yes >>>>>>>>> it >> is. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> (I kid. I kid because I love. Or loathe. Take your pick.) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Well at least the world cup of cricket is a true world cup, >>>>>>>> unlike >> a >>>>>>>> certain baseball competition. Maybe that's because you are >>>>>>>> worried >>>>>> that >>>>>>>> as American baseball team would do as well as the basketball >>>>>>>> team. It would be amusing though if you lost to say Cuba, could >>>>>>>> you imagine the fun Castro would have pissing off Bush. >>>>>>>> Have you ever seen the ashes urn? It's only about 10cm tall. >>>>>>>> http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2005/jul/18cric1.htm >>>>>>>> Ted >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This may come as a surprise, but I never actually worry about >>>>>>> baseball. >>>>>> >>>>>> As you are so caught up in the cricket. >>>>>> Ted >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am totally caught up on cricket: England rules! >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well to be perfectly honest it's England and Wales. The ECB is the >>>> England and Wales Cricket Board. Scotland and Ireland have their >>>> own boards. However Geraint Jones has been keeping like people have >>>> been bowling a wet bar of soap at him throughout the rubber so the >>>> less >> said >>>> about the Welsh contribution the better. The King of Spain has done >> the >>>> Warwickshire team proud though. >>> >>> (King of Spain?) >>> >> >> There is and England and Warwickshire bowler called Ashley Giles. >> Somebody at Edgbaston,(the Warwickshire county ground in Birmingham,) >> ordered a load of mugs with his picture on and the legend "the king >> of spin." When they arrived the printer had made the error which >> made Giles "the king of spain." It appealed to the Bears fans sense >> of humour and sort of stuck. My dad however is old enough to have >> seen a member of a royal family play cricket at both county and >> international level. The Nawab of Pataudi played for Sussex and >> India,captaining India when he was only 21. Interesting fellow he >> only has one eye, he had a car accident just before he became captain >> of India. His father was the only player to have played at test level >> for both England and India. > > (Test level?) > International games between national sides in the top ranks are called tests. The teams are England,Australia,India,South Africa,New Zealand, Pakistan, the West Indies,Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. Other places have teams, yes even the U.S.A. have a team, but they don't play tests against the big boys. It they qualify they can take part against them in the cricket world cup which is a competition where the teams play one day matches.Each team has one innings of a limited number of overs,around fifty overs say. An over is six legal deliveries by a bowler from one end of the wicket. The next one is in 2007 held in the West Indies will have the test sides and Scotland, the Netherlands, Bermuda, Kenya, Canada and Ireland. Last time Namibia qualified along with the Netherlands and Canada. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .