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Pat Freeland · JA Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Cornwall, pa

One afternoon one of our staff Englishmen read a very humo(u)rous description, something like "the batter goes out, the pitcher pitches the ball in to the batter who hits it out and runs in until the outmen throw the ball in and the batter is out." That is a loose approximation of the piece, but the juxtaposition of "out" and "in" was jolly droll.

Does anyone remember that, or know where it can be found? The first 400,000 google hits didn't show it.
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David Bentley · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: 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 that's 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 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 given 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!"

Pat, please excuse my poor computer techniques, but this is sort of what you are looking for - isn't it ?

I found it on Google and copy/paste to this site. My appologies to authors and other learned scholars regarding my using their materials.

And, you, Pat, may do as you will with it. Ta, ta, old (oops!) chap !!

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Chris Gill · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:31 pm Post subject: Staff Englishman?

Was it Jeremy Cripps?
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Bill Kingman · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: New Orleans, LA

In addition to the description, which seems to make no sense, if you subsitute baseball for cricket it actually makes a little sense.

Last year when I was overseas, the Brits were playing the nation of India (I think) and the Qatar newspaper ran an article about the match. The third paragraph reads as follows:

"Leg spinner took three wickets for seven runs in 29 balls as the home side, chasing 129 to win on a blameless pitch, stumbled to a nervy 57 for four."

And I thought the old description made no sense!