It's Just Not Cricket

[Beef Oven!]

Yes, but girlies' cricket .

Rounders?

[Serial_Apologist]

Would an Irishman delivering six outs in a row be a geriatric?

[french frank]

Rounders?

No, proper bats. Middle and leg, please. And overarm bowling!

Sorry, Serial - missed your joke. Geriatric

[P. G. Tipps]

'In the sweep of its appeal,its ability to touch every corner of humanity,football is the only game that needed to be invented.'

SIR Bobby Charlton

That is such a marvellously flowing and beautifully-worded quote that I feel confident somebody may have written it for Sir Bobby ...

Returning to cricket, and the topic, there even have been 'Scotsmen' who have captained England. I am old enough to remember someone called Mike Denness who somehow, and quite shamelessly, contrived to do just that. However, as the same Head of State applies to both England and Scotland the situation is quite different from the current one under discussion.

What I'd really like to know is how ahinton managed to quote one of my posts from the original thread which previously had vanished into thin air. I'm sure ahinton is capable of many wonderful things but this one astounds like no other.

The idea of 'mystery', which was itself the subject of some controversy in another place, would now appear to be an irrefutable and fascinating part of our forum experience.

[Nick Armstrong]

'mystery'

Not really - if you check back through this thread, I think you will find that the all-seeing all-knowing being who shapes our ends namely frenchie has restored the posts from the first thread to this one.

Having looked at it for the first time today though (I tend to avoid 'cricket' threads - which include 'not cricket' threads), I do find grasping what it's all about a bit of a 'mystery', now you mention it...

[P. G. Tipps]

Not really - if you check back through this thread, I think you will find that the all-seeing all-knowing being who shapes our ends namely frenchie has restored the posts from the first thread to this one.

Having looked at it for the first time today though (I tend to avoid 'cricket' threads - which include 'not cricket' threads), I do find grasping what it's all about a bit of a 'mystery', now you mention it...

Well, that wasn't the case when I checked through the thread yesterday.

Ahinton's quote of my post was there but the original post (mine) was missing along with the others. Naturally, I assumed like everyone else that these had been removed.

Anyway, 'mystery' no longer ... what a disappointment!

[ahinton]

What I'd really like to know is how ahinton managed to quote one of my posts from the original thread which previously had vanished into thin air. I'm sure ahinton is capable of many wonderful things but this one astounds like no other.

Thank you for the compliment. The answer to what seems to be a mystery to you is memory, of which I seem still to retain a little...

[gurnemanz]

Morgan's not helped his case by just getting himself out for two off ten balls, caught behind slashing at a wide one.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Morgan's not helped his case by just getting himself out for two off ten balls

South Africa let the Queen do a spot of bowling?

caught behind slashing at a wide one.

Which sounds far worse than not singing somebody else's National Anthem!

[P. G. Tipps]

Morgan's not helped his case by just getting himself out for two off ten balls, caught behind slashing at a wide one.

That is yet another reason for not representing a country (never mind captain it!) other than one's own!

When things go wrong the 'Johnny Foreigner' lot will inevitably start screeching from the rooftops. (I'm not suggesting for one second that this applies to you!)

[Hornspieler]

Well, that's livened up the message boards a bit!

Some words of explanation:

In my opening post, the words which I emphasised were [B]Clamped Shut(not just "closed - as were several mouths on both teams)

Not everyone likes to sing - look around you today in church and you will see what I mean.

The host who removed my thread late at night sent me a personal message apologising for the fact that, due to a distraction, he had been unable to complete his editing of certain content and had intended to do so in the morning. He has now combined messages from both opening threads to his (and my) satisfaction.

I use the term "British" to mean "Eligible to hold a British Passport as a resident born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

(Citizens of Eire (the Irish Republic) have their own national side (and a very good one it is,too) for which Eoin Morgan has played on more than one occasion.

70 posts already on this thread in 2½ days!

Let's go for the century!

Joe Root for Captain!

HS

[Keraulophone]

Sixty-one overseas-born players from fifteen countries – including unlikely places like Peru, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Papua New Guinea – have played Test cricket for England. Some of them probably couldn't sing either.

Four of them had already played for Australia!

So what's new?

[Beef Oven!]

..............caught behind slashing at a wide one.

[antongould]

Sixty-one overseas-born players from fifteen countries – including unlikely places like Peru, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Papua New Guinea – have played Test cricket for England. Some of them probably couldn't sing either.

Four of them had already played for Australia!

So what's new?

Indeed I am somewhat confused as to why HS thinks Morgan should not be captain .... Is it that he was born in Dublin or that he didn't sing the National Anthem or both?

As you say the highest peaks of first class cricket are littered with players born outside the UK. Take Peter Malden Studd born in Dublin captained Harrow and Cambridge University and became Lord Mayor of London ... but would never by the HS Rule have been allowed to be captain of England ?? My researches have not as yet revealed his stance on the National Anthem .....

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed I am somewhat confused

I'm so pleased it's not just me