Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 01:24:14 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96D0ACE7DF563v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> "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. > > (no balled?) > It's what happens to people who ask too many questions.... Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .