Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 01:32:44

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D0ACE7DF563v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> "Steve Brooks" <steveb@postmaster.invalid> wrote in
>>> news:jpuVe.5806$yF2.705@newsfe6-win.ntli.net: 
>>> 
>>>> Jim Larson wrote:
>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>>>> 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....

(Now that's comedy. Wackawackawacka....)

-- 
Jim

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