I know how you lot love cricket............

Was Lords used for military training during WW2?

There is some vague flicker in the back of my head tells me I read somewhere it may have been used during Air Force selection??

 

Was Lords used for military training during WW2?

There is some vague flicker in the back of my head tells me I read somewhere it may have been used during Air Force selection??

My understanding is that recruits reported to Lords.

 

Will someone please provide, in easy to understand English, just what the hell the rules are to Cricket?
This is one colony where the game just never caught on and I'll be damned if I can figure out just how they keep score.
If you are going to put a heavy wooden object in our hands, Canadians have a decided preference for bashing our opponents with it.

 

Hi Canuck

Have a go at this - Cricket Explained for Dummies
enjoy the reading, it may take you a while- take a cut lunch!

or this one for a one day game - Cricket Rules and Regulations
Confused!!!???

regards

Robert

 

Thank you Robert

By jove, I think I've got it. It was the terminology that threw me off. I'm not sure I'll ever reach the stage where it is an "utterly magical and compelling spectacle" but I'll watch with an open mind the next time.
The NHL playoffs are on now so it may be a while.

Cheers

Tim

 

Canuck -
as an Ontarian try to dispel your fear of the west and make the journey to B.C. and enjoy the cricket in Stanley Park all through the summer...we even have visiting teams from the other old colonies !
Cheers

 

Thanks for the invitation Tom.
For the record, I don't fear the west, I love it. Vancouver is my favourite city and if I can ever talk the wife into it you'll find me residing somewhere on the Island (Campbell River, Courtney, Sunshine Coast, etc., etc.). In a previous job, I was responsible for several call centres. One of which was in Burnaby so I made the trek to B.C. once every month for 5 years. LOVED IT! It's the only place I really miss getting to.
We have a few Cricket pitches here north of the city so I'll have to expand my horizons and get out to a match.

Take care,

Tim

 

Tim - friend of mine was just fishing off Campbell River - so in a very weak moment I asked him how was it - he then regaled me with tale which I felt was - frankly- far from the locality of the truth - he sort of guessed that my eyes were closing so he then offered a photograph of the fish on the scale - Mayor's certificate to the effect that he had indeed caught a 74 pound(34.5kg) Salmon - which he had canned -

so recovering quickly - I asked where mine was and he disdainfully replied that only people who believed him got one ! That's why they call me Thomas I guess - but to jump in the water at 6 a.m. when his net broke to heave the fish into his boat - come on ! Not at all cricket !

Cheers

 

Tom,
I also have a friend in Campbell River. His own salmon boat is tied up just below his home on the ocean. I've spent a few days on the water with him and getting some nice catchs of salmon. Nothing near 74 pounds but that whole area is a little piece of heaven.

 

Will someone please provide, in easy to understand English, just what the hell the rules are to Cricket?
This is one colony where the game just never caught on and I'll be damned if I can figure out just how they keep score.
If you are going to put a heavy wooden object in our hands, Canadians have a decided preference for bashing our opponents with it.
It may not have caught on, but Canada v USA is the oldest international cricket fixture, dating back to 1839 IIRC.

Now, I know this is an OT forum, but I suspect that the attached is something that cricket historians have either ignored, forgotten or never knew. Who would have guessed that that the idea of a European Championship of cricket was mooted by Germany in 1938? By the Reich Cricket Commissioner no less!

 

Interesting article.

 

Hi all

Wow that is interesting, who would have thought they played cricket in Germany!

regards

Robert

 

Hi Gerry,

Not for long.

We had to let you get them back for a little while!

Cheers

Geoff

Well, what a first test match we have had. What do you think about this series as an Aussie, Geoff?

 

Love the post Spidge and the fact that you are into the leather on willow, heres a thought for you, do you know who won the game played by British POW's including E W Swanton and Australiam POW's in the far east

Hi Oldman,

Never saw this previously.

You won but you cheated. Your quicky, "Fizzer" Pearson was wearing boots.

 

Well, what a first test match we have had. What do you think about this series as an Aussie, Geoff?

I would have to say Highs and lows.

I don't believe the Aussie's can retake the ashes. Although I always have faith, the bowling is out of kilter (hot and cold)

Let's see how it pans out!

 

Geoff,

I think its England that have a job on their hands!
Recent history points to Australia winning this series, although England have just given themselves a huge boost to their confidence.

It could boil down to whether England's middle order or the Aussie's seam attack prove most consistant??

Come on England!

 

Here are copies of entries in the “Red Cross Wartime Log” of W/O A.J. Fuge a navigator on 158 Squadron (Halifaxes.) He was shot down 17th April 1943.

They consist of the score cards and write up of a cricket game played between Australia and England at Fallingbostel in August of 1944. There is a summary of the game from a chap called Kaplan who umpired the game and I believe played Test Cricket for South Africa before the war.

 

I have a deep and abiding love for the game. Always have. Always will. My love of the game goes back to the days of Bradman. Hutton. and Compton. with Bill Edrich.

The present day side is one of the very best we ever produced,. It is a thoroughly professional team. I expect great things from them. The days when the side folded after number 4 batsmen is gone.

It was always my boyhood ambition to play for the Hampshire Cricket Club, I bowled leg breaks ....Biggies!

Sadly that ambition was destroyed for ever, in the early hours on a lonely road between Overloo and Venraij... If there is one thing that makes the war injuries difficult? it is just that.... I never had the chance. But it never stopped my love for the game. Indeed on certain days, it may just be possible to hear the sound of cheering from the general direction of South Dorset..That would be me.
Sapper

 

If it wasn't for cricket, I wouldn't be sitting here now watching the snow fall outside, and so chatting on the forum.

 

If it wasn't for cricket, I wouldn't be sitting here now watching the snow fall outside, and so chatting on the forum.
Do England, have any fine Welshmen in the side for this Ashes series otherwise I fear you are doomed, send me some snow............ and on the forum where else is there to be on such a cold day