Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 10:14:16 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "Steve Brooks" wrote in news:jpuVe.5806$yF2.705@newsfe6-win.ntli.net: > Jim Larson wrote: >> weirdwolf wrote: > > > >>> 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. >> >> (legal deliveries?) > > Bowled within the rules. The bowler must have a straight arm (not be > throwing the ball) and his lead foot at the time he releases the ball > must be behind the line of the far end of the wicket from the batsman. > Part of your foot can cross the line though as long as your heel is touching it you're ok and you won't be no balled. For someone with size thirteen feet like me it can make quite a difference, quite literally a foots worth. The ball also has to be close enough to the batsman that he can play a shot and if the ball is above waist height it must bounce before it gets to the batsman. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .