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Sports as we know it will never be the same. Someone has been accused of cheatting at Cricket. This is mind numbing, gut wrenching agony. The sports world will never again look on Cricket as a flawless sport. What I havnt figured out is how he figured they were cheatting. Nobody has ever understood the rules so that would be hard to determine. As far as the ball being out of shape, that would happen everytime someone hit it. See why we decided to rebel instead of learning to play the game.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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>The sports world will never again look on Cricket as a flawless sport.
A flawless sport? You have evidently never played cricket. 
Flaws include: it is incredibly boring, matches take an awfully long time, no-one will ever tell me the score, I was always the last man in school cricket matches and never got to bat.
>What I havnt figured out is how he figured they were cheatting.
The ball was oddly scuffed. According to my brother, this means that it moves through the air differently. I would have thought that it would move through the air differently according to who bowls it -- that might be within the rules, though.
>As far as the ball being out of shape, that would happen everytime someone hit it.
Have you ever seen a cricket ball? You'd have to put it through a hydraulic press to put it out of shape. These things are harder, and heavier, than steel (and I know, I've been hit on the head by one).
>Nobody has ever understood the rules so that would be hard to determine.
Of course no-one understands the rules! Cricket has no rules. It has laws. Allegedly.
David
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Brian, you rebellious colonial! Go here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket - and learn what civilisation is all about. The British lost the American war of independence on the playing fields of Eton - or something like that. Cricket IS boooooring. Ask Miss Piggy.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Ah that was not "out of shape", that was "Ball tampering"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Cricket must be the only sport where they have intervals for lunch and tea and don't turn on the floodlights at sunset.
By the way, we had a Pakistani boy at our school for a year or so, who went into deep depression because the rest of the boys knew nothing about cricket, and would you believe, they weren't even interested!
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O know Cricket is boring. Thats why we rebelled, cause it was easier than learning to play.
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Cricket is not a game..... It is a punishment.......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... that cricket is played in England and Wales, but is not at all popular in Scotland. I think that the main reason is the length of the game; we Scots find it impossible to remain sober long enough to find out the result!
It's possibly true that at one time good sportsmanship was all-important, but this might just be a rumour put around by Public (=Private) Schools. British English has an expression 'It isn't cricket', meaning that something is a bit dodgy. However, as early as the end of the 17th Century, betting of huge sums on cricket matches was commonplace, so the incentive to cheat was high. There have been major incidents before. What can you expect from the English? You never hear accusations of cheating in REAL sports like tossing the caber!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Cossie, you obviously don't know your Tony Hancock. (BBC7 Tuesdays at midday and 7pm)
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Brian1407a wrote:
> O know Cricket is boring. Thats why we rebelled, cause it was easier than learning to play.
Actually, I used to love cricket at school. Not that I ever actually did anything as vulgar as playing, of course (although I did umpire the school 3rd XI on a couple of occasions). But the school playing field was - and is - the most beautiful ground in England, being an island in the middle of the river Cherwell in Oxford. I appreciated it when I was in my teens, and I still appreciate it when I go back to support a bunch of old schoolmates (Class of '72) in our annual game against a scratch School team of staff and Choristers.
I also used to watch a fair amount of University cricket - Oxford University at that point played in the University Parks, a short journey by punt up the Cherwell and - in those days before extended licensing (and before I gave up alcohol) - the only place to buy and drink beer mid-afternoon was the beer-tent at the cricket.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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