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[Paphitis]

Looks like Cricket is up and coming in Cyprus!

About time Cypriots expanded their horizons away from the simple game for the simple masses...

http://www.cypruscricket.com/

Can you imaging this team playing Australia or South Africa?

I dream of the day seeing the Cyprus players facing Mitch Johnson at the MCG.

What you think Cap?

[Paphitis]

Alan Knott lives in Paphos!

This guy had a great Test Career for England.

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

Maybe they can make him National Team Coach!

[miltiades]

I bet the sale of calculators will shoot up
I heard something this morning on the radio, 186 to 4 !!!

Paphitis, cricket is boring for the mentally alert, it was devised for the rather lazy old f...

What are the most exciting aspects in a game, I ask my self, is it the throwing of the ball or the deflection of the ball, same old repetitive boring game ???

[Paphitis]

Milti,

cricket is so much more than what you mention. It is a game of endurance and strategy. There is a lot of things going on within a Test Match.

There are personal battles between batsmen and bowlers. You have sledging, and intense rivalry that just goes beyond anything. A lot of technique required to be a good bowler, or batsmen.

If you look for instance at any Ashes Series, you will see that passions run very high.

It is not a simple game like Soccer. In all honesty, I will need to write you a thesis in order to explain the rules of the game. In the context of the game, 100 runs is not a lot considering you can score 6 of a ball.

[supporttheunderdog]

For the benefit of those who do not understand the game

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

[miltiades]

For the benefit of those who do not understand the game

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Its no wonder that cricket is so popular with ultra sophisticated nations such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India!!!

[Get Real!]

For the benefit of those who do not understand the game

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

We don't give a shit mate... we're quite happy with our football.

You can't force sports down people's throats so if something hasn't caught on yet it never will.

[Flying Horse]

For the benefit of those who do not understand the game

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Sounds like the hokey cokey to me!

[Paphitis]

For the benefit of those who do not understand the game

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!

Its no wonder that cricket is so popular with ultra sophisticated nations such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India!!!

Why are India, Bangladesh and Pakistan less sophisticated than Brazil?

Just because the UK seems to attract the dregs of Pakistan. In Australia, it seems that most Pakistanis are Doctors and graduates from Harvard.

Pakistan is a great Cricket Nation, and it is popular amongst the more Western or Liberal Pakistanis.

Who can ever forget Imran Khan? Absolute class as a Cricketer and absolute class as a Human Being.

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

[Cap]

Looks like Cricket is up and coming in Cyprus!

About time Cypriots expanded their horizons away from the simple game for the simple masses...

http://www.cypruscricket.com/

Can you imaging this team playing Australia or South Africa?

I dream of the day seeing the Cyprus players facing Mitch Johnson at the MCG.

What you think Cap?

All for it mate.
Good luck to them.
They've got my support.