Songs That Ask a Question.

Y'all know about the sport called Cricket.
Us Aussies are a laconic bunch so when we are excited we need to portray that excitement as quickly as possible.
In the game of Cricket a person called a Bowler bowls a ball to a Batsman/Woman with the hopes of getting him/her out
through various methods.
Some of those methods being, Bowled - the ball hitting the wickets (3 sticks placed behind the Batsman/Woman).
LBW - Leg before wicket (The ball hitting the Batsman's/Woman's leg in line with the wickets).
Caught Behind - the Batsman/Woman snicking (hitting) the ball and the ball being caught by the fieldsman/woman who
are standing behind the Batsman/Woman.
When either of these things occur the Bowler and Fieldsman/Woman will ask the Umpire whether this is out.

Instead of the Bowler/Fieldsman/Woman using all these words - How is that Umpire? I/we think that the Batsman/Woman
snicked (hit) the ball, - the ball hit the Batsman's/Woman's legs in line with the Stumps (wickets) we shorten all this to Howzat.
How is That?
This song by Australian band Sherbet was written in 1976 and became the Most Popular Australian Song for that year.
Laconic? Apparently not this Aussie. :D

Howzat ? - Sherbet​

 
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