sceptic Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I forgot to mention Beach Volleyball is as good a spectator sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanrover Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I am utterly astonished at the love for cricket displayed in this thread. I am surprised to hear that. Cricket rules! Sure, but I didn't think it was that popular outside the Commonwealth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 World Rally CarAmerican Le Mans and Grand-Am Rolex endurance racingCricket (so much better than slow a** baseball)RugbyGolf (ladies' tour first, then the men's) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Cricket (so much better than slow a** baseball)Baseball slow? Compared with cricket? muchos rofl. I think it was an american who once described cricket as baseball on valium. That said, there's a lot to be loved of a game that can be played for 5 days, each of 6-7 hours and then finish without a winner. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Cricket (so much better than slow a** baseball)Baseball slow? Compared with cricket? muchos rofl. I think it was an american who once described cricket as baseball on valium. That said, there's a lot to be loved of a game that can be played for 5 days, each of 6-7 hours and then finish without a winner. nickfsydney While this is true for Test cricket, Nick forgets to tell this: 1. When the last ball is bowled, you can (in theory) get 4 different results! Team A wins, team B wins, a tie, a draw. 2. One Day Internationals (50 overs a side) are very popular and strangely enough finish inside one day. 3. 20/20 (20 overs a side) is cricket's answer to bridge's speedball. Very spectator friendly. I suspect that Nick actually loves cricket, just like I do, although this is not all that clear by reading his post. He is probably still depressed after England took The Ashes back against Australia last summer :ph34r: Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgr Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 This one was not yet mentioned...To watch:- Field Bicycling (This is a literal translation from the Dutch "veldrijden". Not sure if it is called like this in English).This is a sport that is very popular in Belgium during the Winter (September till Febr). You could best compare it to Mountainbike, but it only takes 1 hour and it is done on a closed circuit. This makes it more interesting to show it on television. Cameras all on the complete track, so they can show everything that happens (every cycler that falls,...)....But it appears that it is only done in Blegium (and a bit in the Netherlands). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 ...But it appears that it is only done in Blegium (and a bit in the Netherlands). Not quite right. You also find cross country bike riding in most other European countries. I know that this is true for at least Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and Spain. I agree with you, by the way; it's very entertaining. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 I suspect that Nick actually loves cricketi was weaned on cricket. but what i really love about it that australia is to cricket what the squadra azzura were to bridge. and i like all forms, regular and pyjama cricket. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 ...But it appears that it is only done in Blegium (and a bit in the Netherlands). Not quite right. You also find cross country bike riding in most other European countries. I know that this is true for at least Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and Spain. I agree with you, by the way; it's very entertaining. Rolandyes indeed! One road bicycle race is for me very entertaining too.Every spring I spend a sunday afternoon in front of myTV screen watching the classic race Paris- Roubaix, thattakes place on the historical route including 60-70 kmon very rough cobblestones. That makes this competitionto "Hell of the North"! Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junyi_zhu Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 To play: 1) Soccer2) Baseball3) Basketball4) Table Tennis5) Tennis To watch: 1) CRICKET!!! I rarely get to watch it anymore, but I used to live, sweat, and bleed cricket. On my recent trip to India I spent a lot of my time watching cricket rofl. Also in Australia. What a great game. 2) Baseball. wow, glad to know that you also like table tennis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Table tennis for watching. Bridge and Table Tennis for playing. I can't stand slow games like football. I need them to score score score. TT is fast and action packed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limey_p Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 pyjama cricket I had to google it because I didn't know the term. It *does* seem to be a now-legitimate term refering to one-day matches. And there was me thinking it had something to do with other games played with or without pyjamas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 pyjama cricket I had to google it because I didn't know the term. It *does* seem to be a now-legitimate term refering to one-day matches.It's been legitimate since about January 1978, at least among those of up on the hill. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 For those of you are totally confused by the term "pyjama cricket", maybe this explanation is in order: In Test cricket (5-day matches) all players wear white clothing. In one day matches, however, the jerseys and trousers are multicoloured (to say the least). I guess you may have a point if you call it pyjama cricket although I don't have an outfit with South Africa or Sri Lanka written all over it :P By the way, the best one day international ever (in my view) was played earlier today in Johannesburg. The Aussies made history by scoring 434 runs off the allotted 50 overs (no team had scored 400 before), but that record was broken a few hours later when the Springboks passed that score with one ball to spare! Howzat! Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchiu Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Cricket as explained to a foreigner:You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each manthat's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comesin 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 outand tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. That happens whenthe captain of the batting side decides to declare the innings. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to gethim out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man ingoes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the timeand they decide when the men who are in are out. When bothsides have been in and all the men have been out, and bothsides have been out twice after all the men have been in,including those who are not out, that is the end of the game! Howzat! RolandAbsolutely lucid, Roland. Except for one question, which iswhat the heck is the "batting side"? Also seems obvious todiagram (remember those petty diagramming exercises inmiddle school?). Back to the topic, though, I like to play 1. [should be obvious]2. Baseball----------------------3. Football4. Table Tennis5. Basketball and like to watch 1. Baseball2. Vugraph3. Softball...M. Basketball...N. Football...ZZZ. Golf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 My favourite sports to play are somewhat unmentioned so far: water-skiing and surfing. On a perfectly still lake on a summer's evening, there is no sport as rewarding as water skiing. Similarly with surfing, on a deserted beach (sadly these are far too few and far between) on a warm summer's day, surfing is one of the greatest activities you can participate in. Football is THE most depressing and boring game to watch on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Football is THE most depressing and boring game to watch on TV. I suggest you pretend that you're not an Englishman when you say this at the local pub :lol: Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeeGee Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 I too am surprised at the popularity here of cricket. My choices (watching, I'm way too old and unfit to play most things any more, and some of my partners may say that's true of bridge as well) Cricket,Football,Motor racing, especially the historics, it's wonderful to watch these old Coopers and Lotuses drifting all over the place,Cricket, Golf (only thing I can almost play now)Cricket,American Football when they show the highlights and we don't have all these ad breaks,Cricket,......Cricket Last time I played cricket, I was relatively fit and young and worked out regularly at the gym. I scored 10 runs, and couldn't move the next day. Those were muscles I hadn't exercised before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Cricket as explained to a foreigner:You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each manthat's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comesin 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 outand tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. That happens whenthe captain of the batting side decides to declare the innings. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to gethim out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man ingoes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the timeand they decide when the men who are in are out. When bothsides have been in and all the men have been out, and bothsides have been out twice after all the men have been in,including those who are not out, that is the end of the game! Howzat! RolandAbsolutely lucid, Roland. Except for one question, which iswhat the heck is the "batting side"? Also seems obvious todiagram (remember those petty diagramming exercises inmiddle school?). The team that bat, as opposed to the team that field. About 15 minutes before start of play the two captains toss a coin. The captain who wins the toss decides if he wants to bat or field first. The batting side is the team with batsmen whereas the fielding side is the team with the fielders (I believe "fieldsmen" is used in Oz). The batting side has two batsmen at the crease; the fielding side has all 11 in the field at a time. Talking of Oz. We all know that they like everything upside-down since they live down under. The same applies to cricket. It's normal to say that Team A has scored 298-4 (298 runs for the loss of 4 wickets, i.e. runs first, wickets next). Not so in Australia where they would put it 4-298. Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyB Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 I suspect that Nick actually loves cricketi was weaned on cricket. but what i really love about it that australia is to cricket what the squadra azzura were to bridge. Surely that should say "Australia *were* to cricket what the squadra azzura were to bridge"? Motorsport and badminton are my favourites, both for watching and participating. Formula One looks to be in for an exciting year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 Active-------- Top by a mile: Alpine SkiingThen: Walking (is that a sport?)All others a long way down, then more or less equalcroquet, table football, pinball, pool, bar billiards I used to enjoy running (OK, jogging) but it did my knees in and I had to stop to preserve the ability to ski. I do a lot of cycling, mainly in the gym, but I don't enjoy it; it's just to keep fit. Passive--------CricketAlpine skiingBiathlon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 Oooh, Croquet! I forgot to mention croquet, as I don't play it anymore. But I used to love it. My favorite thing was attempting to jump over a dead ball. I could do it at least half the time! :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aisha759 Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 To play and watch: Tennis To do : ski (snow and water) To watch: basketball only... i hate football except the world cup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 To Watch: Moto GP - Catch Vale while you can...Football (Proviso - World Cups are usually rubbish (crap refs, played in too hot weather), although Germany will be an exception because the conditions will be there for the players to give 100%. Premiership and Champion's league are the most exciting)F1 - The reason I did aerodynamics. Senna is still my hero.Cricket - Ashes 05. Still sends shivers down my spine. Have you got the DVDs Roland?Biathlon - Ole-Einar Bjorndalen. The greatest athlete on the planet today?Ski-Jumping - Nutters. Spectacular.Rugby (6 Nations)Bobsleigh - See Ski JumpingBoxing (Top Fights Only)K1 (As above)RallyingAthleticsCycling - Le Tour. What an event. Definitely not: Anything with horses (just so sad losers can lose their money), Ice Skating (Not a sport), American Football (Get knackered after 5 seconds and have a rest and wear padding - play rugby you wusses) To Do: Football - Indoor 5-a-sideCycling - Freedom of the roads (and I get to wear lycra!)Table Tennis - Haven't done this in agesTennis - Or thisBut all the general weights/fitness training too - need the fitness levels for those hard sessions at the table Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted March 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Cricket - Ashes 05. Still sends shivers down my spine. Have you got the DVDs Roland? :D Do I have them?? I got them before they were released! Roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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