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Friday, July 25, 2003

Friday Fun! I appreciate cricket might be a bit too sophisticated for the Yanks among us, but this online version is very cool. Top score on the leaderboard is 426, top score in my kitchen is 82.

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Cricket may or may not be too sophisticated for us Yanks, but flash cricket is too difficult for Vito90. 16.

Oh, that was dreadful: 36.

62. what an odd sport.

My first try: 85 and 7 wickets. I don't even understand what's going on, and I didn't read the instructions. Just kept clicking on the ball. I bet I'll do worse once I understand what I'm supposed to do.

94. i still don't get it.

Woohoo! 107 and 9 first time out. (The only time I've watched cricket was when it was aired on Fox Sports World last year and even then I think they weren't even live - maybe they were "classic" matches, whatever those are considered to be.)

56 and 10. This time I used the arrow keys and got a lot more sixers but didn't get to use all the overs. How does that translate into cricket language, FB?

103. wc2002, it doesn't translate into any language

91, 10 wickets, 12 overs.

81, 9 wickets, 12 overs. I am hooked.

97 all out is best I've managed.

140 with the arrow keys; it would have been more without the assistance of a 2 year old.

72 and 10. Still clueless about the scoring system, but thanks for the link.

114! 3 wickets, gave up my first wicket in the 8th over.

105, 2 w.

126 for 5. No two year olds involved.

total: 27, wickets: 10 I don't have a clue what's going on, but I'm going to rush the mound if the pitcher keeps throwing at me.

119, 6. FB or squealy, post that nice link about cricket rules please.

Cricket explained to followers of baseball

145, 6! I am a monster!

Also, BBC rules. (Last one for me 141 for 9.)

Thanks, FB! For the game and the explanation!

When I did a semester in India in college, I was once talking to some of the local kids and they offered to teach me how to play cricket. On my first at-bat I crushed the ball (luckily a tennis ball) right into the face of an 11 year-old kid, who was knocked flat on his back. I stopped playing after that. The kids who lived near campus called me "Cricket" for months after that. (I can't play the flash game here at work for some reason)

On my first at-bat , oh dear oh dear.

96 and 9 - and that guy was throwing me a lot of junk. But, I owned his fastball.

116 and 6

138 and 1

I'll quit when I'm ahead with a 185 for 4 (including 4 sixes in my last over).

112 and 4 once I finally got the timing down. Do bowlers have different, uhhhh, pitches? Or do they generally just try to explode the wicket?

124 and 9

144 and 3 ok, one more.

149 and 4.

183 and 1! So I lied. I love this game.

First full game: 170 and 6. suckas.

I was happy with 152 for 6, now I have to beat mkn.

I keep getting bowled through the gate. Ugh. A pity that it's all basically seam bowling. If they had a Shane Warne-a-like, then things would get very interesting. But animating a fat bowler is probably tricky in Flash.

Okay, it looks as if mouse clicks work better than arrow keys for straight shots, but the arrows work best for stuff that's towards the off and leg sides. Bizarre.

129 for 7. But 426? The maximum possible is 432 (6 x 6 x 12). I smell something fishy.

Seriously, I scored 2. I couldn't understand that game at all. Every straight ball was a wicket, as for some reason my batsman utterly refused to hit the ball. I don't know what I did wrong.

I get the same thing, salmacis, when the ball is almost directly at the batter's feet. I can drill the ball to the right and left, but it seems wildly inconsistent. I surmise that the best way to win this game, then, is to play chin music and break some dishes, since the bastards must be stepping in the bucket or bailing.

Use the arrow keys, that's your best bet.

Should anybody wish to educate themselves in the arcane art of talking absolute cobblers while the cricket is on, you should have a look at the live text commentary of the last day of the England V South Africa test, at the Guardian. It makes me laugh, anyway.

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