dirt hurts !

[The Buddha]

How did you go from PT Nurses to "Cricket"? Very confusing and not as much fun 

No its actually very easy, the pitcher, we call him the bowler, has to bowl, then we have the hitter who is called batsman, can hit the ball, or not, and all he has to do to stay in the game is defend his stumps which is 3 little sticks stuck in the ground, and not be caught if he hits the ball, and the rest of the fielders are there to catch or stop the ball, and the keeper - the catcher is the keeper is there to stop the ball behind the stumps.
If the batsman hits it or the keeper fails to catch it you can take off for a run. You run towards the bowler, and the other batsman runs toward the keeper. When they get to their respective locations they have 1 run, then they can turnaround and run back for a second if they can or stay put, or even do a 3rd or a 4th or a 5th etc if the ball is hit far away. If a fielder hits the ball onto the stumps when the batsman is out of the crease (1 yard from the stumps) then he is run out. Of course he can also be bowled (ball hits the stumps when the bowler bowls) or caught (he hits and someone catches it) or be leg before (takes it on his legs and the umpire thinks it would ahve hit the stumps). Or hit wicket - he hits the stumps with his body/bat. A 4 is when the batsman hits the ball out of the boundary lines, and a 6 is when he sends it over the ropes wihtout it hitting the ground.
See nothing to it.
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Buddha.

[JB848]

OK so how do you hit a homerun and who's on first?

[The Buddha]

The first = non striker. So anyone who is batting but isn't on strike is on first. Its also second and third. ... Aka there is no first ... its non striker.

Home run = six, Just clobber a half volley clean over the bowlers head. Makes a huge statement, but is the hardest to do, its the longest distance to cover, every bit of 75 yards even in a small ground, a big ground like melbourne or perth its can be clear over a 100 (though on those 2 the midwicket/cover boundary is the largest @ over 110 yards) but they used to have lightning quick outfields that once you get it past the fielder ... it will zip away. The other popular way to hit a 6 is to move back to a short ball, get under it and pull it or behind it and hook it. You tend to get the fine leg - backward square boundary which can be the shortest in many cases, as little as 55-60 yards. But a straight 6 is really an indication of superiority over the bowler, its like smooshing his face in the mud. In fact a straight 4 off a fast bowler does it quite well too. Usually there are no fielders there, so hitting it there, time it right and you get a 4. The umpires will scurry out of the way too, the non striker usually dodges it, sometimes lets it through between his legs, all classic straight drives, quite dramatic. The bowler meantime is following through after the ball and has very little time to react, and plenty of time to look hapless. Fun.

There is a 100 more, but these 2 V sections, one in front of the batsman as he is facing, sorta where his leading shoulder is, and one to his rear - are the most common. You can effectively slice a fast bowler over the slip cordon as well. Again a short boundary to help it along as well as a nice 95 mph ball with some bounce.

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Buddha.

[JB848]

  Thanks for the info but I was making a joke?

You know Abbot and Costello "Who's on First"?

Nevermind! Seriously though now I understand it much better!

[The Buddha]

Ha ha I know ... try this, who's the non striker. Striker. Repeat as desired.
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Buddha.

[The Buddha]

Also the wickets are laid out in a block of 6 or 8 because they are prepped differently, they have layers of brick, gravel, sand and what not under them. They have to drain and drain quite rapidly so if your native soil is red clay ... you will truck in material that drains and dries ... and they need 4-6-8 per ground so they can run practice on one while they do test matches on another. Effectively a test pitch gets prepped for weeks on end, so they use only the others. Sometimes they would have to use one of the edge 4. It can be as little as 40 yards to the short boundary from one of those. A smart batsman can slam everything to that corner. A lot of people dont know this, but Kapil's 175 not out @ 1983 world cup was played @ tunbridge wells on one of those where the off side square eas super super short. This was a game against Zimbabwe (a totally toothless team) and india spectacularly went down to 17 for 5 ...
This is the scorecard from that game -
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65083.html

Apparently the short boundary was thorougly exploited in that match by kapil dev that it was thoroughly laughable that such a strong off side top order failed so miserably and kapil and the tail put on 250 runs.

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Buddha.

[JB848]

Errr so how did the Yankees do that year?

[The Buddha]

Errr so how did the Yankees do that year?

They didn't, that is why they are still being whipped around by the Steinbrenner guy.
India did it, and that's why we dont have no Steinbrenner. See how it works.
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Buddha.

[JB848]

Well they lost tonight so better luck next year. Goooooo Giants! West is best!

[ohgood]

went up here and it was fun


then i came down, and it was not




i forget, is it me or the bike that's supposed to be on top  ?

[JB848]

WTF dude? Are you accident prone or what? Man that sucks. Did you ever ride BMX or mountain bikes as a kid? What happened this time anyway? That looks like a nasty cut!

What kind of protection do you wear when riding in the dirt?

[Twisted]

Damn that looks nasty.

Anything to meet some more nurses huh? There has to be a less painful way