What game is this?

Ina

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I just finished a book about some boys growing up in Australia. Title "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey. Their favorite game had a ball, bat, and bowling. What game was it? It was hard to follow.:eek:nthego:
 

No! I'm not funing you guys. I'm really trying to figure out what the game is. Is it an Australian sport? I could almost follow it. Could it be what some of us call a street sport, just not an official sport?
 

Thank you Vivjen, this makes me realize that I need to broaden my literature consumption with some authors from other countries. All the different word slangs was fun to figure out.
 
The Aussies have just thrashed England at both test cricket and one day cricket, so I won't bother you with any rules.....they can do that!

It has never caught on in the US
 
Cricket read like a fun game. I'm soooooooo disappointed in Houston's football team, the Texans. This year was the worst, 2 wins, 14 losses. They fired the head coach, and traded some of the poorer player. MAybe next year will be better. I'm not even going to watch the Super Bowl.
 
The Brits and the Aussies tend to play the same games. The US is on its own!
i went to a baseball match once, in Detroit.
 
Football, to us, is soccer, as in David Beckham.
we don't really play American football, or Aussie rules football either.
 
Soccer is king here; I regard it as a load of over-paid whinging no-brained non-entities myself....but I do like to keep up, so as not to show my ignorance!
 
Cricket. Gawd spare us. What a waste of a day out... but some are addicted, mainly couch potatoes and drunks but there you go.

Here are the Rules. I do suggest you at all at least try to read some of this, especially those who appreciate "Who's on First."

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 that’s 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 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 gone 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!
- See more at: http://www.melcarson.com/rules-of-cricket-simplified.html#sthash.colgMXqQ.dpuf


And that is a perfectly legitimate description. Still wanna watch it?


 

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