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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,287 Views)
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25 Aug 2014, 01:40 PM
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25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
It's too wet.
:lol:

Basically this.

The ball is cork wrapped in leather, when it gets wet and they start hitting it with a bat it disintegrates really quickly. It also causes the wicket to turn to mud which makes bowling correctly impossible, and a wet outfield stops the ball from running onto the boundaries.
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25 Aug 2014, 02:28 PM
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25 Aug 2014, 01:40 PM
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25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
It's too wet.
:lol:

Basically this.

The ball is cork wrapped in leather, when it gets wet and they start hitting it with a bat it disintegrates really quickly. It also causes the wicket to turn to mud which makes bowling correctly impossible, and a wet outfield stops the ball from running onto the boundaries.
why don't cricket grounds convert to 4G Astroturf?
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25 Aug 2014, 01:40 PM

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:lol:

Basically this.

The ball is cork wrapped in leather, when it gets wet and they start hitting it with a bat it disintegrates really quickly. It also causes the wicket to turn to mud which makes bowling correctly impossible, and a wet outfield stops the ball from running onto the boundaries.
why don't cricket grounds convert to 4G Astroturf?
A cricket field has several wickets on it, they are usually in different states of readyness so they need to have a certain amount of grass in order to have them, I suppose the difficulty then would be having a grass area surrounded by astroturf.

They'd probably just argue it's not traditional and therefore 'Just not cricket' :lol:
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Another Predator re-make, this time the '98 ones. Wish I had a spare £260 :(
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Dogg
25 Aug 2014, 02:28 PM
Dhogtanian
25 Aug 2014, 01:40 PM
davesterjc
25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
It's too wet.
:lol:

Basically this.

The ball is cork wrapped in leather, when it gets wet and they start hitting it with a bat it disintegrates really quickly. It also causes the wicket to turn to mud which makes bowling correctly impossible, and a wet outfield stops the ball from running onto the boundaries.
Its' also because of the danger to both bowlers and batsmen, risk of injury. And because it would make an uneven match if one innings was dry and the other was wet.
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Another Predator re-make, this time the '98 ones. Wish I had a spare £260 :(
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Dogg
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Dhogtanian
25 Aug 2014, 01:40 PM

Quoting limited to 3 levels deep
:lol:

Basically this.

The ball is cork wrapped in leather, when it gets wet and they start hitting it with a bat it disintegrates really quickly. It also causes the wicket to turn to mud which makes bowling correctly impossible, and a wet outfield stops the ball from running onto the boundaries.
Its' also because of the danger to both bowlers and batsmen, risk of injury. And because it would make an uneven match if one innings was dry and the other was wet.
Aye forgot about those. :thumbsup:
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25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
Because it is bad enough when it is sunny?
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davesterjc
25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
Because it is bad enough when it is sunny?
Is the right answer.

Seriously though what kind of sport can you play for about a week and it end in a draw? And who's this Duckworth-Lewis carrot as well?

Heavy worst sport :boik:
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25 Aug 2014, 02:48 PM
davesterjc
25 Aug 2014, 01:37 PM
I see the cricket has been abandoned for today. Question,anyone know why they can't play in the rain?
Because it is bad enough when it is sunny?
Is the right answer.

Seriously though what kind of sport can you play for about a week and it end in a draw? And who's this Duckworth-Lewis carrot as well?

Heavy worst sport :boik:
What difference does it make how long something lasts whether a draw is a satisfactory result? A football match lasts 90 minutes, is that short enough that a draw is acceptable?

Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis. Two carrots. They devised a mathematical formula for setting a target score in an interrupted match which needs to have the number of overs reduced. They weren't cricketers themselves but mathematicians.

Here's the history and creation section of the Duckworth-Lewis Wikipedia page.

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The D/L method was devised by two British statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, as a result of the outcome to the semi-final in the 1992 Cricket World Cup between England and South Africa, where the most productive overs method was used. Rain stopped play for 12 minutes with South Africa needing 22 runs from 13 balls chasing England's 252/6 off 45 overs. The revised target left South Africa needing 21 runs from one ball, which was a reduction of only one run compared to a reduction of two overs, and a preposterous target given that the maximum score from one ball is generally six runs.[29] The D/L method avoids this flaw: in this match, the revised D/L target would have left South Africa four to tie or five to win from the final ball.[30] Duckworth said, "I recall hearing Christopher Martin-Jenkins on radio saying 'surely someone, somewhere could come up with something better' and I soon realised that it was a mathematical problem that required a mathematical solution."

It was first used in international cricket in the second game of the 1996–97 Zimbabwe versus England One Day International series, which Zimbabwe won by seven runs,[33] and was formally adopted by the International Cricket Council in 1999 as the standard method of calculating target scores in rain shortened one-day matches.


Using the score achieved by the first team as a starting point, the idea is the runs required, overs remaining and number of wickets in hand all are taken into account to all a fair target score to be set. The idea is that combined resources of balls remaining and wickets in hand give a good indication of what a team might score. When a match is stopped the two teams resource percentages are calculated and a target score can be set.

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It doesn't keep everyone happy as there are some who say it places too much importance on wickets but it's now generally accepted that it's the best way to sort things out if the game is cut short.




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Mate I honestly couldn't give a flying eff

If only there was a forum to discuss cricket :hmmm:
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Another Predator re-make, this time the '98 ones. Wish I had a spare £260 :(
Lovely, the studs however. :hmmm:
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Another Predator re-make, this time the '98 ones. Wish I had a spare £260 :(
:boik: £260? And they aint gona make you play better. :lol:
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Another Predator re-make, this time the '98 ones. Wish I had a spare £260 :(
:boik: £260? And they aint gona make you play better. :lol:
True.

It's hard to improve perfection though ;)
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Boss.. :rocker:
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Boss.. :rocker:
More like an updated version of The Mask. :suspect:
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