Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The baseball equivalent of an International Cricket Match is called a "Series", prefixed by the word "World", if it involves only the North American continent. Other Series are Division and League. They last up to eight days each, with extensive breaks for beer every day, and occasional breaks for travel. Often, play does not begin until late afternoon, to give players and fans time to recover from the prior day's festivities. Each day they bowl 18 overs (called "innings"). Cricketers tend to do a few more overs per per day. The batters in cricket also run around more. Both games tend to have derogatory names for the fielding positions -- silly mid-on/off, short-stop, short leg, forward short leg, slips, gully, outfielder, infielder, wide leg, fine leg etc. Calling men names like that in other situations could land one in court or hospital. Beer is, of course, the unifying factor. After enough beer, the two games appear identical. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:01:00 +0100, Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> wrote: > For those of us who do not live in England, Australia and the Indian > subcontinent, it has always been a mystery how anyone can get excited > about a sport in which a game can last 5 days and still end in a draw! ... -- Clive Pics: http://www.pbase.com/chmoss