BSG's "Complaints"....

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Lord Jim wrote:
Six balls in an over.
Must be more Cricket bull puckey... 8-)
Seeing as you asked...
In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six balls bowled from one end of a cricket pitch.

In a normal over, a single bowler delivers six balls in succession, from one end of the pitch, to the batsman at the other end. After six deliveries, the umpire calls 'over'; the fielding team switches ends, and a different bowler is selected to bowl an over from the opposite end of the pitch, while the batsmen do not change ends. The captain of the fielding team decides which bowler will bowl any given over, and no bowler may bowl two overs in succession.

An over must consist of six legal deliveries. If the bowler bowls a wide or a no ball, that illegal delivery is not counted towards the six-ball tally, and another delivery will need to be bowled in its place.

In the event that a bowler is injured, or is sent out of the attack by the umpire (for disciplinary reasons, such as bowling beamers), during the middle of an over, a team-mate completes any remaining deliveries.

Because a bowler may not bowl consecutive overs, the general tactic is for the captain to appoint two bowlers to alternate overs from opposite ends. When one bowler tires or becomes ineffective, the captain will replace that bowler with another. The period of time during which a bowler bowls every alternate over is known as a spell.

In limited overs cricket matches, such as one-day cricket and Twenty20, each team has one batting innings, which ends either after all wickets are lost or when the allotted overs are completed. In such a match, bowlers are generally restricted to the total number of overs they may bowl in a match. The general rule is that no bowler can bowl more than 20% of the allotted overs per innings; thus, in a 50 overs match, each bowler can bowl up to a maximum of 10 overs.

In Test and first class cricket, there is no limit to the number of overs which may be completed in a team's innings, nor is there any limit to the number of overs which may be bowled by a single bowler. In these matches, there is a requirement to bowl a minimum of ninety overs in a day's play, to ensure a good spectacle, and to prevent the fielding team from wasting time for tactical reasons.

A maiden over is one in which no runs are scored. Leg byes and byes scored in the over are not counted against the bowler in a maiden over. A wicket maiden is one in which no runs are scored and a wicket is taken: double and triple wicket maidens have also been recorded.
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A maiden over is one in which no runs are scored
Not scoring with maidens is a chronic problem for most cricket players, I suspect.... :P
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I thought that I had made my point perfectly clear. (See very far above.) So, obviously the last word is Mud... So strange how quickly simple minds lose the plot after such a short span. We have the same old characters doing and saying the same old tired ass shit.

How Rubato and Joe Guy endure is beyond my ken. Gravity indeed. Science? WTF?


No worries. Same old shit different day. Carry on you sad wankers. If I didn't have so much to do I really would enjoy chasing you lame bastards around the block a few times... :fu :fu :lol: :D :ok
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Good the see you post Timster, hope all is well with you and yours.

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At least Gob got the slow fat pitch that I threw over.....
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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At least Gob got the slow fat pitch that I threw over.....
Of course he did...

That's the kind of pitch cricket fans are used to...
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Sorry LJ, that's a bowl. The pitch is the field. :nana
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Good job on the pitch but sorry Guin, the other one should be a "ball". An over is the bowling of six (legal) balls. Cricket fans expect balls. They don't expect bowls which are much larger, black and wobble.
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So, to be clear (as mud) you ball a ball six times in a bowl? Or an over.

Lets try this again, a bowler balls a ball six times in a over?

Why doesn't a bowler bowl a ball?
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Guinevere wrote:
Why doesn't a bowler bowl a ball?
Because then he would be bowling and bowling the ball for a strike.

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I don't care who ya are nobody ptiches a Bowling ball...
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Guinevere wrote:So, to be clear (as mud) you ball a ball six times in a bowl? Or an over.

Lets try this again, a bowler balls a ball six times in a over?

Why doesn't a bowler bowl a ball?
Ah so! Yes indeed the bowler bowls the ball. But in the sentence "That's the kind of pitch cricket fans are used to...", it's not OK to replace 'pitch' with 'bowl'.

"That's the kind of bowl cricket fans are used to...." is non-U.

The commentator, in an approving voice, might say "That's the kind of ball cricket fans are used to...." if indicating that the result of the bowler's action was a good "ball", no longer referring to the red spherical thing itself but to its path, speed, placement and trajectory... and direction... and speed (did I say 'speed'?). The commentator might also say "That's the kind of bowling cricket fans are used to....", indicating general approval of the performance of the bowler(s).

So you see a pitcher may be pitching a pitch (owing to US-Americans lack of sophisticated language skills and maps)
But a bowler is never bowling a bowl

LJ - you explain it
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And a bowler rarely balls a maiden...
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I don't know, Michael Clarke, the Aussie captain, was balling this one..

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Gob wrote:I don't know, Michael Clarke, the Aussie captain, was balling this one..

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Oh my, that really does look like...

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Gob wrote:I don't know, Michael Clarke, the Aussie captain, was balling this one..

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I'm thinking that it's been quite a while since Miss Bingle could honestly be described as a maiden... :lol:
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?

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A maiden is a horse who has raced but never won. You never know ...
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