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Post by harryburrows on Jul 13, 2014 18:00:45 GMT
ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS ...............  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 18:04:43 GMT
ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS ............... I'm not even attempting a nibble on it Harry ....  |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 13, 2014 18:06:11 GMT
ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS ............... I'm not even attempting a nibble on it Harry .... invented by the americans apparently  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 18:13:08 GMT
I'm not even attempting a nibble on it Harry .... invented by the americans apparently Not a chance mate  Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of  |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 13, 2014 18:14:52 GMT
invented by the americans apparently Not a chance mate Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of no way bish , you need to expand |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 18:19:14 GMT
Not a chance mate Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of no way bish , you need to expand In what way ? ....like ************** when he's been on the noodles ? |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 13, 2014 18:39:01 GMT
no way bish , you need to expand In what way ? ....like ************** when he's been on the noodles ? poor noodle bound ************** |
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Jul 13, 2014 18:44:30 GMT
ANYONE KNOW ABOUT THIS ............... I'm not even attempting a nibble on it Harry .... Already taken a chunk out of it Bish.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 19:11:40 GMT
I'm not even attempting a nibble on it Harry .... Already taken a chunk out of it Bish. Only a small chunk though  |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jul 13, 2014 23:27:29 GMT
A truck load of Crickets were been taken to a New York zoo,when the truck ran over a Baseball bat,flattening it,hence the USA invented Cricket.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 23:32:30 GMT
A truck load of Crickets were been taken to a New York zoo,when the truck ran over a Baseball bat,flattening it,hence the USA invented Cricket. Ok |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Jul 14, 2014 6:41:17 GMT
Wasn't it when some Spanish boy picked a football up and then ran with it?
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 14, 2014 14:12:51 GMT
Wasn't it when some Spanish boy picked a football up and then ran with it? definately not its an adaptation of the french game boule petanque , the french used to hit the boules with a rolling pin to catch frogs |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:15:36 GMT
Wasn't it when some Spanish boy picked a football up and then ran with it? definately not its an adaptation of the french game boule petanque , the french used to hit the boules with a rolling pin to catch frogs No it isn't. ..... |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 14, 2014 14:17:54 GMT
definately not its an adaptation of the french game boule petanque , the french used to hit the boules with a rolling pin to catch frogs No it isn't. ..... well ive seen it with my own eyes , it was during a truffle hunting weekend in cahors 1984  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:23:16 GMT
No it isn't. ..... well ive seen it with my own eyes , it was during a truffle hunting weekend in cahors 1984 That's as may be ....but it isn't and wasn't Cricket ! |
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Jul 14, 2014 14:31:50 GMT
invented by the americans apparently Not a chance mate Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of I was watching QI the other night & it reckoned that the oldest international sporting fixture was America v Canada at cricket. Surely that can't be true? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:41:11 GMT
Not a chance mate Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of I was watching QI the other night & it reckoned that the oldest international sporting fixture was America v Canada at cricket. Surely that can't be true? Well during the 1800's Cricket was pretty popular in both because of the British influence. In America it was being played quite a lot prior to the Civil War in fact it was pretty much the most popular sport being played , that particular game was a game between two clubs , not a true America v Canada game .....but you could. I suppose call it an international. Of sorts |
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Post by murphthesurf on Jul 14, 2014 14:45:05 GMT
I made a very brief mention of the history of cricket in a short article I wrote for something back in the 1980s - I'd looked it up at the time and am sure it had been 'invented' in England sometime in the 1700s - but YOU LOT all already know that REALLY, don't you???!!! |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 14, 2014 14:46:56 GMT
Not a chance mate Cricket was being played in England before America was even thought of I was watching QI the other night & it reckoned that the oldest international sporting fixture was America v Canada at cricket. Surely that can't be true? i think you may be on to something there mate |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 14, 2014 14:49:30 GMT
I made a very brief mention of the history of cricket in a short article I wrote for something back in the 1980s - I'd looked it up at the time and am sure it had been 'invented' in England sometime in the 1700s - but YOU LOT all already know that REALLY, don't you???!!! no madam we dont, however we are trying to test the resolve of our resident historian |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 14:54:02 GMT
I made a very brief mention of the history of cricket in a short article I wrote for something back in the 1980s - I'd looked it up at the time and am sure it had been 'invented' in England sometime in the 1700s - but YOU LOT all already know that REALLY, don't you???!!! no madam we dont, however we are trying to test the resolve of our resident historian Yes we do ! It's almost certain that cricket as we know it was played in South East England in the early part of the 18th Century and the fist Organised Cricket Club was Hambledon in Hampshire ....where the first organised games were played on the Common |
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Jul 14, 2014 14:59:38 GMT
no madam we dont, however we are trying to test the resolve of our resident historian Yes we do ! It's almost certain that cricket as we know it was played in South East England in the early part of the 18th Century and the fist Organised Cricket Club was Hambledon in Hampshire ....where the first organised games were played on the Common That looks like a quote out of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, To me Bish. |
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Post by harryburrows on Jul 14, 2014 15:00:12 GMT
the fist organised cricket club? was the ambassador involved then |
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Post by murphthesurf on Jul 14, 2014 15:02:54 GMT
no madam we dont, however we are trying to test the resolve of our resident historian Yes we do ! It's almost certain that cricket as we know it was played in South East England in the early part of the 18th Century and the fist Organised Cricket Club was Hambledon in Hampshire ....where the first organised games were played on the Common Go Bisp! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 15:03:42 GMT
Yes we do ! It's almost certain that cricket as we know it was played in South East England in the early part of the 18th Century and the fist Organised Cricket Club was Hambledon in Hampshire ....where the first organised games were played on the Common That looks like a quote out of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, To me Bish. No all my own work Okie ....I wrote Wisden by the way. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 15:05:06 GMT
the fist organised cricket club? was the ambassador involved then Not sure mate ,but I definately played in the first game ! |
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Jul 14, 2014 15:06:43 GMT
no madam we dont, however we are trying to test the resolve of our resident historian Yes we do ! It's almost certain that cricket as we know it was played in South East England in the early part of the 18th Century and the fist Organised Cricket Club was Hambledon in Hampshire ....where the first organised games were played on the Common Bish have you got another ' WORD OF THE DAY ' for us well for me to try and decipher. |
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Jul 14, 2014 15:10:22 GMT
That looks like a quote out of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, To me Bish. No all my own work Okie ....I wrote Wisden by the way. You wrote in Wisden.  ......Well we have all done something similar I remember writing in a volume of Rupert The Bear. |
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Post by murphthesurf on Jul 14, 2014 15:12:34 GMT
the fist organised cricket club? was the ambassador involved then Not sure mate ,but I definately played in the first game ! Yes, but were you in the SLIPS??? I still don't know what it means....... (As in ' Get in the slips! Get in the slips!' - 'WHAT ???????')  |
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