Can someone explain what exactly it is he did?

It says he scored high on a test, SAT, LSAT or what?

"Who are you?"

"I'm Batsman."

/got nothing

If he farbles the grenabilzquat today, he'll set two more records.

The batsman's Holden, The bowler's Willie...

I have no idea what the heck any of that means.

I didn't understand a single sentence in that article.

It looked like english but I didn't understand any of it.

Can someone translate, please?

that's strange..they've changed my headline...anyway, this is an amazing feat..to put it into perspective, 100 runs is a fantastic innings for a batsman..

Oh farking hell. The only thing more annoying than americans who complain they don't understand a single thing about cricket are the people who get pissed at them and say "der ur stupid".

And yes I am aware of the irony.


(*waves a flag for Hayden*)

Cricket "news"?

*ducks*

Okay you Wanks (er, Yanks)...

This is Test Cricket. A game, similar to baseball, that lasts 5 days. Yeah, 5 DAYS. They start in the morning and break for lunch and afternoon tea. And now it's all over, I can tell you Hayden hit 380 runs. It's a lot. A whole shiatload.

We (the rest of the world) KNOW you don't care, but respect it on this level: someone just set a world record in a sport that's played in many countries. Liken it to someone rushing for 700 yards in a single football (gridiron) game. Except only America plays gridiron. This guy just completely destroyed the Zimbabwe bowlers (ie, in baseball, pitchers).

I'm a Yank living in Kiwi land. A good translator for both sides. Any other questions?

I can honestly say that I'm glad I don't know anything about cricket.

380 runs? Where did they play, Coors Field?

Five days? What, is cricket like tantric baseball?

I'm a Yank living in Kiwi land.

Traitor, I'm calling up Rumsfeld and Ridge so we can remove you as a threat to America.

/actually does understand cricket

What is an "innings"? I understand it differs from baseball in that each team bats in its own "innings," as opposed to both teams batting constituting an inning, but how does the cricket innings end for a side?

Outstanding performance, albeit against a rather shiate side like Zimbabwe. But that's not Hayden's fault.

An American friend of mine once described Cricket as the "communist" version of Baseball. Oh ho ho, you wacky Americans.

It's no more confusing than baseball.

I don't understand why it's such a big ordeal that americans "don't get it". Who cares, the rest of the world understand it. :P

This guy basically played the part of a batter in baseball, but instead of hitting some measly home run, he hit a whole shiatload of home-run equivalents, and batted for hours on end instead of just running around a diamond once. ;)

100 is considered a big score that you've really got to work your ass off for. 380 is a phenomenal effort.

Innings ends when all players on that team are out.

Yeah well the Red Sox scored 10 runs without making an out against the Marlins this year. So there!

Cricket:

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 thats 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 all 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!

High score records against Zimbabwe don't count

A little bit of college cricket trivia...

Haverford College in Pennsylvania is the only American uni/college with a cricket team.

Where are the Fizzbin championships being held this year?

This was the very firs tthing I read this morning. I'm American. That's just cruel.

I'm a Yank living in Kiwi land.

I hear you have to do something pretty damn special for the Kiwis to let you live there.

For those that don't understand cricket, here is an excellent article explaining that game.

for thse that do understand cricket, here is a p*ss funny article trying to explain the game

article

ClothedSexualTouching

Thanks, truely enlightening, now I completely understand.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12815981,00.html

I give up on HTML

ClothedSexualTouching: Very funny. And true. And you just confused the FARK out of a lot of people.

I won't try to explain too much, but here's the basics of cricket:

Try and go with the baseball analogy. But instead of running around in a circle to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and home, you just run back and forth between home and 1st.

You always have to have a "man on base." One guy is always batting, and one guy is always over at the other end. To score a run you must BOTH safely get from where you are currently standing to where the other guy is standing. The credit for the run goes to the guy who hit the ball (ie, Hayden).

An innings constitutes 10 wickets, or outs. Each team has 11 players total, and since you have to always have two guys running, the most "outs" you can have are 10. Once you're out, you're out for good (for that innings).

Scoring a century (100 runs) is a big deal. A double century is bloody next to impossible. 380 is unfarkingbelievable. Even if it is against a shiat team like Zimbabwe, 380 is crazy. Well, obviously - it's a world record.

But anyway, I know, I know - the Americans don't care. Especially while the ALCS and NLCS are going on, hockey is just starting, and football is hitting mid-season. Fair enough. But it was bloody brilliant to watch.

Sorry, lunch time pint

http://www.news24houston.com/content/features/the_real_houston/?ArID=14434&Sec ID=69

WhackingDay: I pay a shiatload of money to go to grad school. And that's about all.

To everyone: A VERY GOOD explanation of what happened, as well as a BRIEF introduction to the significance, can be found here.

(And just in case my html encoding doesn't work, the URL is http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/031010/1/3euzj.html)

gromitcu

But anyway, I know, I know - the Americans don't care. Especially while the ALCS and NLCS are going on, hockey is just starting, and football is hitting mid-season. Fair enough. But it was bloody brilliant to watch.


It's an amazing record, and you have to have a bit of luck and a TON of skill to do it.

But my question is, YOU WATCHED IT? ALL OF IT? =|8-0

/gotta love a sport that breaks for tea

/knows that "tea" is more like lunch than little old ladies with china teasets

ZipBeep

So close, yet so far. Lunch is lunch, tea is tea in cricket. Complete with little old ladies, china tea pots and home made cake.

Cricket Explained For Americans:

http://www.cricket.org/link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/CRICKET_EXPL AINED_AMERICAN.html

/American, but still thinks cricket is cool.

ZipBeep: Technically, I didn't see ALL of it. I did have classes to attend. But I did tune in when he was at 58, so long before anyone had any idea he was going to go for as long as he did. And I took a quick break to cook dinner, but still sorta' watched.

holy shiat I am so hungover guys

I don't know if I will be able to last the day

This cricket shiat is making my head hurt but just keeping my eyes open is making my head hurt so don't take offense.

-mjr so dunk so very drnuk oof damn this is hard to do

Jimmy cracked corn and I don't care!

Well done Aussies. Shame you were so shiate in the rugby against the "mighty" Argentina though.

farking hell that was something special. I was supposed to be working but i couldn't take my eyes off the farking tv all day. The best thing was that i reckon he could of batted forever if he didn't say 'I've got the record, so fark it - i'll just go for it' and start smacking it around without a care.

Hayden you farking ledgend!

I wonder how Mark Taylor's feeling. I hear he declared when he was tied with Bradman...was that because he felt he wasn't worthy of beating him? I bet he has some regrets...

/I don't care if you are stupid confused

Andy was quick to sticks with brim on the 4th go through. I didnt believe he had a chance to capture queens like Rod in the 'muggin. All the power boys they have in railyard couldnt make up the "stolen" points either. funny though, i always fancied the preps for threat round about the retry spare.
hell, even i could see that.

I know those words, but that article doesn't make sense.

/lisa simpson

ivory7th
I read a quote from Tubby that he would've broken Bradman's record on the last ball of his innings if not for a good bit of fielding from Ijaz Ahmed. He declared overnight to try to get a result for the team.

breadpuddingwithoutraisins
Haverford College in Pennsylvania is the only American uni/college with a cricket team.

So are they like the NCAA champs? How can you have only one team?

Meanwhile, American media/news sites have yet to acknowledge that the Rugby World Cup has just started.

Hardcore_Dutch_Monkey_Porn

ZipBeep

So close, yet so far. Lunch is lunch, tea is tea in cricket. Complete with little old ladies, china tea pots and home made cake.

I'm thinking of High Tea.

Pip Pip, Tut Tut, Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, know what I mean?