Cricket players are the cleanest players of any sport

So this is what all those guys in white are doing on the junior high school field. I frequently see them when I drive by and was wondering what was up with cricket lately.

I like the white unis but really, how does one keep them clean? I guess there's no tackling in cricket, huh?

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• Anonymous
  September 10, 2007
  Teaching Americans cricket is a hopless task (I have tried many times!!). Just getting past the terminology takes several days (try LBW, googly, silly mid on or silly mid off, for starters).

• Anonymous
  September 10, 2007
  Hmm, well the terms sound fun but I'm not going to be able to pretend to want to learn anything about it during college football season. But the outfits look very nice! :) Seems it may be more genteel (sp?) than most Americans look for in a sport. However, I feel compelled to point out that I do like to watch tennis on TV. And their outfits are white too and I hear that tea and scones are sometimes involved. Maybe I'll watch one of the cricket matches just to get a feel for it; as much as one can without understanding the sport at all.

• Anonymous
  September 10, 2007
  Hi Heather well, you can get acquainted with the nuances of the sport here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket :-) Yes it is a more genteel sport compared to American football, and is apparently the sport from which baseball was derived regards Gautam

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2007
  Off topic but wanted to mention this... Nice quote in yesterday's TheLadders.com E mail blast. :)

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2007
  Gautam - I'll check it out. I;m just glad I spelled genteel correctly! wine-oh, I didn't know I was in it. Can you send it to me? It's funny that they don't even ping me on that stuff anymore.

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2007
  Enough of this cricket talk...talk about USC impending loss to NU this Saturday. I will be in Hawaii prepping for the Maui Marathon.  So I will be watchin' from afar. I know you are a USC alumni and would like to know your thoughts. Later, -NativeWizdom

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 13, 2007
  baseball was derived from stickball, a game children played

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2007
  does that mean cricket and baseball are related?

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2007
  Both have a bat and a ball (cricket actually has 2 bats, as there are 2 batters), a number of people on the field and you have to hit the ball then run to a certain place to be "safe" and score points. Think of cricket as being a bit like baseball with only 1 base, and 2 guys run back and forth until one gets out, he gets replaced with another etc. No tackling really, some diving and skidding and dirt/grass stains though, it is very much suited to tea and scones. I'm sure my lack of baseball knowledge makes you cringe as much as a lacking of cricket knowledge does to me, but that's not our fault of being American and Australian where the two sports are almost mutually exclusive in the popularity. Next weeks sports lesson: netball

• Anonymous
  September 14, 2007
  Jessica, that was a good explanation. Totally makes sense to me. I don't cringe at limited baseball knowledge at all. I find it hard to hang in there with baseball sometimes because compared to football (the American kind) it goes so slowly. Anything that involves tea and scones is OK with me (though I am doing a little maintenance dieting right now and the mere idea of scones is about enough for me to lose my mind....there are definitely scones in my future....the real kind, not the starbucks kind). Looks like I'll be traveling to Autralia early next year. I hadn't thought abuot it but perhaps I'll get to see cricket players in their natural habitat.

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  September 15, 2007
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  September 18, 2007
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  October 25, 2008
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