Dear Fellow Brits,
I don't understand the game, I don't want to understand the game ( is it just a game ) but I do feel a warm glow inside to know that I am in some way connected to the weird and wonderful world of cricket ( I am British, my only connection ).
I understand football, I can just about get my head around rugby, hell! I can even follow a game of tennis ( what's love got to do, got to do with it
) but cricket
Dibbly-dobbly bowlers - Bowlers who are of medium pace, and are effective in the one-day scenario in choking the runs. New Zealand had a famous quartet - Rod Latham, Gavin Larsen, Chris Harris and Nathan Astle - during the 1992 World Cup
No!! I am not making it up
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/239756.htmlHere's another
Bunsen A term used by commentators to describe a pitch heavily favouring slow bowlers. From Cockney rhyming slang (Bunsen Burner = turner).
Cockney rhyming in cricket
But Geoffrey Boycott sums it all up, who is Geoffrey Boycott? well he is a famous English cricketer don'tcherknow
( cricketer, is that a word
)
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott: "Australia are just poor at batting when the ball moves.
The Aussies can't hit the ball when it moves, England are cheating! they are making the ball move
Another world! what kind of mind, devised, invented, plays, enjoys that pastime we call cricket ( probably in trouble for calling it a pastime ).
Gonnagle.
