Cricket : Around The World.

Where do I sign up? I will bring my baseball glove.

BeeSee because you have a glove, it would make you our SCF wicket keeper!

KGV

As far as I know I used to be pretty good at it. It was my lifes worst decision not to become a professional cricketer. oh how I hate it.

Tell BC to get his helmet too dont wont him injured trying to catch a bouncer with his baseball glove :)

spock are you an opening batsman or bowler or both?
The SCF cricket team is growing fast.
I am sure we would win if some nice stamps were the winning prize.
When it comes to running we might need a motor scooter to get around the ground and from one end to the other end of the wicket. lol

well I used to be an opening batter left handed too and I could bowl some mean offspin I have once taken 7 wickets in a over. 6 wickets of 6 deliveries and the umpire was so dazed he didnt call over till after 7. man that was my greatest moment in cricket now I fear even bc will swat me for sixes now

Well done spock!
Sounds like we need on the SCF team
a bowling machine dressed in whites.

what whites? I dont think we will last 5 days 20 20 will be quite a feat for us unless you want our first match to be our last one :)

I believe golf was originally from Scotland and the name from G.O.L.F. - Gentleman Only, Ladies Forbidden.

Steve

lol

Rod 222 and Triggersmob - I'm sorry to have to betray my Scottish ancestors, but I don't think golf started there. I used to think that Golf (like curling) came from the Netherlands - but if Wikipedia has it right below, golf got to Scotland via other countries - with the Netherlands possibly playing a big part. As Wikipedia said, the modern game / rules come from Scotland - but that was codifying something much more ancient. And I still agree with Mark Twain about golf . . .

"The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians[3] trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Europe as the Romans conquered most of the continent, during the first century B.C., and eventually evolved into the modern game.[4] Others cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.[5] A Ming Dynasty scroll dating back to 1368 entitled "The Autumn Banquet", shows a member of the Chinese Imperial court swinging what appears to be a golf club at a small ball with the aim of sinking it into a hole. The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France.[6] This game was, in turn, exported to the Low Countries, Germany, and England (where it was called pall-mall, pronounced "pell mell"). Some observers, however, believe that golf descended from the Persian game, chaugán. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier.

The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery."

Hey, check out the Ashes test score - Aussies were two wickets for 1 run (Kattich duck without facing, Ponting a golden duck) and now are 3 for 3) . . . what a good note to go to sleep on!

Yes David, I was referencing the modern game,
the rest, as you illustrate gets lost in the mists of time.

This is the book I am reading currrently,
and the cover has a fascinating satirical cartoon by
James Gillray in 1792
"The reception of the diplomatique and his suite at the court
of Peking"

Amongst the crude baubles offered as trade to the then
sophisticated Chinese, is a tiny bat and ball,
I have great fun in imagining this is an early evidence of cricket.

Rod222, that looks just like the old pics of cricket bats I remember seeing years ago. I love the badminton racquet and shuttlecock too!

But no golf clubs - so the emissary had sporting taste at least . . .

Yeah, they were neat David,
not sure about the dice though,
I think the Chinese would have had those prior.
Golf, with all its bad press, amongst the hackers,
is still the best avenue to begin to discover ones
real self.
To see my employer, a man with whom I had great respect,
as a person of great self control and presence,
actually wrap his putter around a tree, I knew why the
game came with such repute.

I have to pinch the headlines from the Queensland press.

"We are now learning what it is like to be English"