Comments on: Video explains cricket

By: Lachlan Musicman

Lachlan Musicman — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:24:00 +0000

As a cricket fan, I approve. This is v funny

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:48:00 +0000

The good news is that baseball/rounders lives on among the children of Yorkshire. So I have been told by an online friend from Hull.

One of my favorite memories of a recent trip to London involved finding a group of twentysomethings engaged in a raucous attempt of a softball game in Regents’ Park. God, it was hilarious. Fit and athletic, one and all, but nobody seemed to know how to hold, let alone swing, a baseball bat. But man, were they having fun.

I have no doubt they’d have cleaned my clock at just about any other sport you could name. But I was sorely tempted to drag my then-37-year-old scrawny ass over to them and Show ‘Em How It’s Done In The Colonies. For a brief, shining moment I coulda been Roger Effin’ Maris.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:11:00 +0000

It’s a lot more complicated than that and there are various layers of strategy involved but you’ll soon get the hang of it after a few frobets.
Mind you, at my school we always played Powester’s Thursday rules, which as I’m sure you’ll realise, requires three and three quarter players, with the odd man in required to change his/her direction of dangle based on the score and thud of the other players and the referee’s surname.

By: guanto

guanto — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Too true. In fact, it boggles the mind that Americans seem unaware of our habitual afternoon threesome. What kind of life it that?

By: db

db — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:32:00 +0000

Are the three gentlemen working against each other or as a team?

By: Van Diemen

Van Diemen — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:42:00 +0000

That was much more engrossing than the actual game.
You go to the real game & it’s more interesting to watch the crowd watching the game.
Cup Snakes are fascinating.

By: w3c w3c

w3c w3c — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:29:00 +0000

The narrator sounds a lot like Peter Serafinowicz!

By: DoctorDoak

DoctorDoak — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Reminds me of Bill Bryson’s take on listening to cricket on the radio from In a Sunburned Country: http://adagiojournal.com/wp-content/uploads/cricket.mp3

By: CliffStoll

CliffStoll — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:04:00 +0000

Was that J.R.”Bob” Dobbs assisting with the fringing of the ring?

By: robuluz

robuluz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Facepalm. The reason cricket doesn't need cheerleaders is because it is the greatest, most refined sport on the planet. Nonetheless, it now has them. I give you Twenty20 cricket. Hooray.

By: setdog

setdog — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:30:00 +0000

Having spent several enjoyable afternoons watching cricket on UK TV, I can only say, 1) hilarious; and 2) spot on, lads.

By: daen

daen — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:38:00 +0000

Ah, makes me yearn for dear old Johnners and his obsession with cake on Test Match Special ...

Brian Johnston started the fad of the public sending cakes to the commentary box. In Johnston's day they were chocolate cakes, whereas now fruit cakes seem to be more popular. Indeed, the Queen herself reportedly had a fruit cake baked for the TMS team. She said that it was baked "under close supervision" by her following Jonathan Agnew's light hearted questioning of her as to whether she might have baked it herself. Henry Blofeld is reported to have said that it contained a goodly portion of "Royal brandy".

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:37:00 +0000

Weird…must’ve got the title wrong. I’ll see if I can find it because it really was a great film.

Found it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan

By: Hakan Koseoglu

Hakan Koseoglu — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:22:00 +0000

The comments and the video reminds me of the Cricket described in The Coming of the Terraphiles. That didn’t make any sense either.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:49:00 +0000

There is a great Indian film called “Ran” that came out a few years back about a cricket match between the locals and the British.

Were they wearing armor and playing cricket with katana?

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:50:00 +0000

You left out an “in”.

By: Adjam Oliver

Adjam Oliver — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Sounds just like the real commentary D:

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:56:00 +0000

I think it’s unfortunate that non-European sensibilities required the men’s threesome to be offscreen, and elided by a cut, in this version for US audiences.

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Yay, I’d been hoping that definition would come up! :D

By: Benjamin Klahn

Benjamin Klahn — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:19:00 +0000

I knew Mornington Crescent was going to come up at some point. We Americans have our own game played on college campuses across the country. It’s a more physical game. You may have heard of it: Calvinball.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:04:00 +0000

‘Owzat!

By: HahTse

HahTse — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Indeed, old chap!

By: boomer0127

boomer0127 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:46:00 +0000

Perhaps there are many movies about cricket matches between the British and the subcontinent locals in the 19th century, but I believe the movie you are referring to is called “Lagaan”, roughly translates to “tax”.

By: guanto

guanto — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Who needs cheerleaders when the game includes threesomes?

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:17:00 +0000

All to be found in the Uxbridge English dictionary, of course.

By: miasm

miasm — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Jolly hockey-sticks! You’re right!

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Hallo

By: Andrew S.

Andrew S. — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:10:00 +0000

I just don’t understand how Europeans can have fun at professional gentlemen’s sports like this with the gaping absence of cheerleaders on the sidelines…

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:27:00 +0000

There is a great Indian film called “Ran” that came out a few years back about a cricket match between the locals and the British. It takes place during the Victorian era. I think it’s like 3 hours running time, but my god, watching it you feel like you are at this cricket match for days….thing just drags on…but it was very entertaining.

By: tw1515tw

tw1515tw — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:00 +0000

They forgot the teas and cakes

http://burnhamsportscc.hitscricket.com/pages/page_13980/How-To-Make-A-Perfect-Cricket-Tea.aspx

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=48044663@N00&q=cake