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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Sports An Important Cricket Match

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:08 AM

Do not miss it for the world: England ("This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle/This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars/This other Eden, demi-paradise/This fortress built by Nature for herself") v. Pakistan ("the export[er] of terror in the world"). This match is all about good against evil, nobility against savagery.

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Is that what cricket is about? Blimey.

Posted by Fistique on July 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM

I should have known Charles would be a cricket fan. You know, there are two Pakistans, and the cricketers are the ones who don't want to bomb us (or England). Actually it looks like England doing the bombing right now, 305 for 4, Eoin Morgan just scored his hundredth.

Posted by Fnarf

on July 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM

This is America, there is no such thing as an important Cricket anything.

Posted by Banna

on July 29, 2010 at 10:17 AM

@1, Cricket is this "sport" where people with funny accents hit a ball with a funny stick called a "bat" to try and knock over some other funny sticks called "pins", which is usually followed by long breaks for tea and cucumber sandwiches, which generally leads to endless "matches", without any clear winners.

Never attend a cricket match, you will be stuck there for hours if you hope to see it played to resolution.

Instead get drunk and watch highlights, if you must see people with funny accents play with funny sticks and eat cucumber sandwiches.

Posted by samktg on July 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM

@4, erm, no one ever calls either the wickets or the bails "pins", and the fellow with the bat is trying to keep them from getting knocked over, not knock them over himself. It's not a whole lot different than baseball, once you understand it.

Posted by Fnarf

on July 29, 2010 at 1:21 PM

@5, Forgive me, I've only ever had its mysterious workings described to me by wasted Scots whilst wasted myself. Frankly I find even baseball impenetrable, and what could possibly attract me to take the time to learn how an infinitely longer version of the sport works.

Posted by samktg on July 29, 2010 at 8:33 PM