How Cricket Looks to The Foreigns

[Spymaster]

A Swedish friend sent me this saying it makes as much sense as his day at The Oval with me did.

Apparently this has been around for a while but I've never seen it before.

The comments are pretty good too.

 

[Badgers]

Gold

 

[8ball]

A Swedish friend sent me this saying it makes as much sense as his day at The Oval with me did. Apparently this has been around for a while but I've never seen it before.

Something is definitely off about this. Where's the man who stands still a lot and wears the big legwarmers?

 

[planetgeli]

Made the mistake of showing this to partner.

"That's not how it looks, that's how it is."

She calls it 'shitball'.

Tosser.

 

[Spymaster]

Gold

The commentary is wonderful

 

[Spymaster]

"If you want to see what a test match looks like, set the speed to 0.25."

 

[David Clapson]

But cricket is easy to understand when compared to American football. I had the good fortune to go to a Superbowl party in someone's house in California. Nobody could explain the rules to me. Not one teeny bit. The whole thing was really all about the half time ads and the live 'music' and doughnuts and Doritos and talking bollocks about shitty craft beers.

 

[8ball]

But cricket is easy to understand when compared to American football. I had the good fortune to go to a Superbowl party in someone's house in California. Nobody could explain the rules to me. Not one teeny bit. The whole thing was really all about the half time ads and the live 'music' and doughnuts and Doritos and talking bollocks about shitty craft beers.

It's very simple compared to rugby.

 

[weltweit]

Peter Ustinov recounted how he was useless at cricket and so was put in charge of the scores, a position from which he could usually ensure that his team won!

 

[klang]

the most exciting bit is usually when they put the suncream on their noses.

 

[Spymaster]

It's very simple compared to rugby.

Isn't it just?

I get the confusion with the intricacies, but the basics are pretty straightforward, aren't they?

 

[weltweit]

The trouble with Clicket - which we invented ffs - is that rather a lot of foreigns have taken it up and are rather better at it than we are!!