In affectionate memory of ...

[blutach]

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
E N G L I S H    C R I C K E T,
which died YET AGAIN at the WACA
on
18th DECEMBER, 2006,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances (not)
R.I.P.
N.B. - The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Merry XMAS!!!

Regards

[Derree]

I wish I knew more about Cricket so I knew what you were talking about Blooie....

[LT. Columbo]

I wish I knew more about Cricket so I knew what you were talking about Blooie....

me too

isn't that baseball played on the ground?

[uufta]

Our grade school teachers use to smack us with one of those bats...

[NightTran]

and you or other never call a lawer ?

[locoeng]

[Q] From Bill Gage: “What is the history of sticky wicket? I have been told that, before the invention of toilet paper, there were sticks placed in a rack in public toilets for use by folks when they completed their business. The sticks were then replaced in the racks. At night some of the younger crowd would switch ends of the sticks in the rack, thus when the next person reached for a stick he would get hold of a sticky wicket.”

[A] That’s a wonderfully inventive story, with just enough truth about it to stop one for a moment. It’s true that, before toilet paper, people did at times use sponges on sticks (the Romans did, for example), but they were never called wickets. The real explanation is either more mundane or more esoteric, depending on whether you live in a country that plays the ancient game of cricket or not.

A wicket was originally (and can still be) a small door or grille, especially one cut into a larger door. It was borrowed in the early eighteenth century to refer to the three wooden sticks called stumps that form the structure at which the bowler aims and which the batsman must defend. In the usual double-ended game there are two sets, 22 yards apart. By a further extension, the word came to apply to the ground between them (we’re now some way from a small door, but the sequence is plain). After rain, the ground becomes soft and the ball bounces more erratically, making it more difficult for the batsman. Hence a sticky wicket, in full to bat on a sticky wicket. To be on one, figuratively speaking, is to experience great difficulty.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sti2.htm

I always wondered what a sticky wicket was.... :lol:

Congrats to the aussies...

[uufta]

and you or other never call a lawer ?

40 years ago it was kinda ok for them to do that (in moderation)
I remember it being a real pretty carved one..LMAO

[drfsupercenter]

Wicket is also that ewok from Star Wars, I got a 100% on the test on ep 6 (I have a science fiction class )

[Old Gal]

Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi, oi, oi.

WOO HOO.

Love me cricket. Cant wait for the Boxing Day match.




Lets hope we do a clean sweep.


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[blutach]

You betchya!! I'll be there Old Gal

WAR-NIE

Regards

[Old Gal]

WAR-NIE

Have you heard.

and

MC GRATH

is it true?

[blutach]

Not official, but it seems that way.

Maybe the other 3, too.

A tradegy.

Regards

[Derree]

Wicket is also that ewok from Star Wars, I got a 100% on the test on ep 6 (I have a science fiction class )

......and this is in school????????

[hello people]

I was there on day 1 in Brisbane and I got the feeling that it would be all too much for the English. Too hot, no Vaughan, no Simon Jones, no Trescothick, Freddy handling the burden of a virtual frontline bowler, middle order batsman, skipper and media spokesperson.

[blutach]

You were right!

2 days to the big one at the G

Regards