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Thread: Cricket Anyone?
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07-17-2017, 06:07 PM #1
Cricket Anyone?
So this is weird to admit as a flag-waving baseball and football loving American, but I've gotten really into cricket (the sport not the bugs) over the last year or so. I started turning it on my ESPN app as background noise when I worked from home, and over time I've started to actually enjoy watching it. T20 is actually fairly exciting stuff.
So who else likes it? Anyone played ever?
Seems like it would be fun to put some pads on and stand in there to bat.
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07-17-2017, 06:08 PM #2
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07-17-2017, 06:41 PM #3
Fuck yeah rugby is cool!
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07-17-2017, 08:25 PM #4
I agree.
But so far it's been nothing but crickets on your original post.
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You knew that was coming.
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I like the watching part of cricket (takes forever, drinking all day, usually starts early morning because of the time difference, doesn't really matter if you nod off or pass out because the same game will still be in when you eventually wake up).
In fact, now that I think about it, I can't believe that cricket isn't the most popular sport in America.Last edited by reckless toboggan; 07-17-2017 at 09:33 PM.
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07-17-2017, 08:27 PM #5Funky But Chic
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07-17-2017, 09:20 PM #6
If I gave it a little time, I think I would really like it. If I moved over the pond, I would definitely be into it. I can't stand soccer, so I would need something.
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07-17-2017, 09:58 PM #7Registered User
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I enjoyed it when I lived in the land down under.
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07-17-2017, 10:17 PM #8
I'm going to London in October and I want to try and catch a match while I'm there.
when I used the search function there was another cricket related thread where you used the same joke. You're slipping Ice!
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07-17-2017, 10:20 PM #9Funky But Chic
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It's situational. Why think up a new joke when nobody laughed at the old one? Wait...
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07-17-2017, 10:24 PM #10
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07-18-2017, 05:14 AM #11
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07-18-2017, 06:22 AM #12
People who refer to the Atlantic fucking Ocean as a 'pond'. Only acceptable if done by British people behind closed doors when they are on their own side of 'the pond'.
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07-18-2017, 07:21 AM #13
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07-18-2017, 07:24 AM #14
^^ looks pretty well attended.
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07-18-2017, 07:33 AM #15
Yeah... It was a minor, 4-day, regional daytime game, on a Tuesday. Not many people are interested in that. I was just looking for an excuse to sack off work and do some drinking with a friend.
Tomorrow is a short-format (T20) evening game. It'll be a full house, with heavy boozing. Probable carnage level: high. :-D
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07-18-2017, 08:17 AM #16Banned
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I had a bunch of South African friends some years back that absolutely loved cricket. I can't get into those marathon 3 days matches. Those guys would have parties, starting at like 3am (time differences) to watch the matches...they were crazy for sure.
I never got into it aside from the drinking at the parties.
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07-18-2017, 08:27 AM #17
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07-18-2017, 09:32 AM #18
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07-18-2017, 09:44 AM #19
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07-18-2017, 10:27 AM #20
We used to take over the baseball field in the Raymond Park near the office in Cambridge MA to play after work in the summer. Beers afterwards.
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07-18-2017, 02:17 PM #21Registered User
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After I sell my MOL's highboy, I may become a cricket fan.
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07-21-2017, 06:36 AM #22
This is more like it. Wednesday night T20 at The Oval, one of the 2 big grounds in London. Plenty of beer and a boisterous, sell-out crowd (no streakers though... ).
Local team Surrey took down Essex, the black sheep of UK cricket (a fellow called Kevin Petersen - a mercurial talent with a notoriously fragile ego) played his first game in the UK in a couple of years and hit 4 sixes off an over (PNW Brit can explain what this means) which swung the game.
I'm back there for more tonight: London Derby against Middlesex. Should be pretty fun.
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07-21-2017, 08:21 AM #23
That looks awesome!
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07-21-2017, 10:43 AM #24
It does. As long as it isn't raining, that looks like a cool night. I really have to like a sport to sit in dreary rain.
And my grandpap was british, so I think that allows me to say pond. And not gaf definitely allows me to say pond..
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07-22-2017, 01:07 AM #25
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