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Thread: The rules of Cricket Explained to a foreinger (Funny)

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    Default Re: The rules of Cricket Explained to a foreinger (Funny)

    Can anyone explain the rules of Baseball or American Football?

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    Default Re: The rules of Cricket Explained to a foreinger (Funny)

    Quote Originally Posted by Rednosty View Post
    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

    Yes Its old but its a goodie!!
    AND - the game can go for 5 days & end in a draw!
    All perfectly logical to me Red.

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    Default Re: The rules of Cricket Explained to a foreinger (Funny)

    Quote Originally Posted by tony41 View Post
    Can anyone explain the rules of Baseball or American Football?
    Obviously not

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    When I was in my early sixties, I was working with a young Portuguese who was about 22 and had been here since he was 14.

    We were speaking about the difficulties of dealing with a different education system especially when dealing with a different language. We eventually got around to talking about games; he'd found them OK excepting cricket. "I used to play," he said, "and was about average, nothing special but...." He looked forlornly puzzled. "I could never tell when the game had finished!"

    I commiserated and added "I'm from mid Wales originally and have always had exactly the same problem. And when they give the scores, they might just as well be speaking a far Eastern language. I think it's the only form of English I've never quite mastered. Personally I prefer the Shipping Forecast."

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    Quote Originally Posted by tony41 View Post
    Can anyone explain the rules of Baseball or American Football?
    Think of our brand of football as trench warfare.
    That might help.

    Reminds me of a sceen from the movie "the mouse that roared"?
    Or was that rugby, not football?

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    The want to explain the rules to me as well, and football, i understand rugby, knock , kick, bash, Jump on, grab by the shirt and rip it off, kick as high as you can to get it through the goal posts in the air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buttons-and-bows View Post
    The want to explain the rules to me as well, and football, i understand rugby, knock , kick, bash, Jump on, grab by the shirt and rip it off, kick as high as you can to get it through the goal posts in the air.
    Well of course! I understand Rugby as well..."Never mind the ball! Play the man!!!!"

    Last edited by cambrensis; 17th April 2015 at 10:53 PM.

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    The rules of American football....well now...let's stand around and think about it....

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    To all members either side of the pond...I've only ever understood Rugby...and I do try sometimes...honestly!

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    Default Re: The rules of Cricket Explained to a foreinger (Funny)

    I heard a quote today that might help:

    "Rugby is a game for thugs, played by gentlemen.
    Football is a game for gentlemen, played by thugs".

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