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andyf:

--- Quote ---Don said: You're going to have to learn a bit about American football then you can follow along. If you described a game of soccer (English football) or rugby to me in a couple of sentences I probably would have a hard time understanding it as well
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Soccer or either of the two flavours of rugby would take a while to explain, Don. But cricket is much simpler. Here you go - two paragraphs rather than two sentences, but still commendably brief:

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 that's 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 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 been 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.

See - it's easy  :lol:

Andy

CrewCab:

--- Quote from: andyf on October 24, 2009, 03:07:21 PM ---See - it's easy  :lol: 
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Easier than the "Offside Rule" anyway  :hammer:















Though to be fair I understand neither as no simple engineering principles seem to be involved  :smart:

CC

tinkerer:
 :lol: :lol: :lol: You fellas are a riot.  :lol: :lol: :lol:
I just thought I understood cricket. :scratch:
The only rugby I have been exposed to is Andy Capp in the funny papers and it didn't seem like a game I would want to play. A bunch of guys hugging and then kicking each other butts. :lol:

dsquire:

--- Quote from: andyf on October 24, 2009, 03:07:21 PM ---
--- Quote ---Don said: You're going to have to learn a bit about American football then you can follow along. If you described a game of soccer (English football) or rugby to me in a couple of sentences I probably would have a hard time understanding it as well
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Soccer or either of the two flavours of rugby would take a while to explain, Don. But cricket is much simpler. Here you go - two paragraphs rather than two sentences, but still commendably brief:

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 that's 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 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 been 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.

See - it's easy  :lol:

Andy

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OK Andy. Now I just about totally understand it but just have one question. Do you need more ins than outs or outs than ins to win.  :doh: :doh:

One other thing, Would an out in OZ be the same as an in in UK?  :lol: :lol:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

CrewCab:

--- Quote from: tinkerer on October 24, 2009, 05:03:24 PM --- :lol: :lol: :lol: You fellas are a riot.  :lol: :lol: :lol:
rugby ............... A bunch of guys hugging and then kicking each other butts. :lol:
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Don't ask about the bath  :bugeye:

CC

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