Tim Blair

Um... what?

Looks like my prediction for 2004 could turn out to be correct - Brett Lee's international career will be over this year.

If he keeps bowling these pies it certainly will be.

India is 650/5 at stumps of day 2 with Tendulkar 220 not-out. Its pretty sure that this innings will be number two of the list (atleast).

Err, diagonal counter-rabbit!

(cricket? rugby? curling? enlighten us ingorant non-Commonwealth citizens)

I'm surprised you didn't go to the game Tim.

Hmm...that looks like...hmmm...that looks like...damn, I don't know what the hell any of that means. Hmmm...

Guys please I was at the game and it was not pretty. Hopefully I will see Steve Waugh bat tomorrow and who knows it might be a draw. An Aussie win is not really on the cards now, the indians have yet to declare.

Oh yeah - Bring back Warnie, Bring back Pigeon - if you must know what people were chanting. Bring on the Beer Wenches I say - not too shabby at all!

What a fitting send off for Waugh. A duck from him tomorrow would be icing on the cake.

Hi, Sam.

It's cricket. We're playing the Indians. They're grinding us into the ground.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/03/1072908959675.html

"What a fitting send off for Waugh. A duck from him tomorrow would be icing on the cake."

...a duck? The hell? As a Mallard-American, I take offense to this characterization of the duck meaning a poor performance.

Um... unless that's not what it means. In which case, I take offense to the characterization, period.

I swear, your Cricket language is incomprehensible... and this is coming from someone who wants to learn it!

Seriously, this sport sounds like something a baseball fan would like to learn about. Is there a book or a website a complete neophyte could turn to for a basic education in it?

Sheesh, what the hell happened? Was somebody slipping amphetimines into their curry or something?
650 is freakin ridiculous.

I see a Bradman-esque final bat for Waugh (ie a duck)

Here's an explanatin of cricket for you Merrikuns:
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 thats 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 all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have 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!

I prefer the other in and out game!

Umm..... go USC [University of Southern California]Trojans! - there's an equally obscure reference for you. Seriously, you haven't lived until you've seen a guy dressed as a Roman centurion (or Trojan) marching down the center of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA on the morning of the Rose Bowl football game.

Hi, Wonderduck.

"...a duck? The hell? As a Mallard-American, I take offense to this characterization of the duck meaning a poor performance."

A duck's egg is round, like a zero. When a batsman is out for a duck, that means they got zero, the worst possible score.

Hola, David!

You've confirmed my fears. Australia is prejudiced against waterfowl in general, and ducks in particular... and making fun of our means of reproduction, to boot! You... you... SCOUNDRELS!!! BLACKGUARDS!!! BASHI-BAZOUKS! Colocynths! Rhizopods! Pithecanthropic mountebanks! You... you... BOLLARDS!!!!!

Slatts, a question to you: how does one that is in go out?

Alice, I'm more partial to the University of California - Santa Cruz team, and their mascot: The Fighting Banana Slug (team cheer: "Go you slugs!").

Do we have to use the deeply unsound spellings of "Mumbai" (Bombay) and "Kolkata" (Calcutta)in the otherwise very interesting hit parade? Next we'll be calling Germany "Deutschland".

Alex, I'm sure residents of Mumbai and Kolkata would find characterization of their city names as "deeply unsound" interesting.

And deeply unsound.

Or is it just that they're wogs, and what THEY call their cities doesn't matter?