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Dan man joins the Cricket mod team
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05-12-2012 3:04am#1
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OK Dan - first "test" - explain the LBW law ....:D
... Oh, and welcome and good luck
I don't think I'll bore all you cricket buffs by explaining such an elementary rule... same goes for D/L method
Gordon Gecko wrote: »Great to have you on board Dan
Thanks Gordon.Gordon Gecko wrote: »as of about 9pm tomorrow night will post a Leinster cricket related thread that will be news! Hopefully your first bannings won't be warranted :pac:
Well just in case, here's a preview of a little "bat" of my own....
I find it's good for helping others find their "boundaries" and "knocking them for six" if they're "wide" of the mark.
Sorry, I'll turn it on myself first for using a shameful amount of poor cricketing puns 0 -
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The D/L can only be explained verbally, with lubricated vocals of beer and one eye on the scoreboard to see what it actually is!
Not true - D/L is actually very simple.
You take the total runs scored, then divide by the balls faced. This is then divided by 1 over the number of potential balls in the innings.
You then multiply that figure by the number of spanners in the groundsman's shed, minus the average age of the bowling side, not counting the 2nd and 3rd-youngest players.
Finally, the most important step and the one that gets forgotten most often, is to add the cardinal numbers of the home countries of the two captains, where a=1, b=2 etc, and multiply that number by the length in centimetres from the centre stump to the square boundary closest to magnetic north - but not true north! - then divide the second & third numbers by the first, and add the number of teeth the home wicketkeeper is missing.
As I said, simple.0 -
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The D/L can only be explained verbally, with lubricated vocals of beer and one eye on the scoreboard to see what it actually is!
It's done by consensus isn't it...or perhaps auction style
Everyone meets at the bar, looks at the scoreboard and calls out a chase figure. If more than 22% of people shout out the same number +/- 20 runs, that's agreed upon by all.
The lbw rule is the hardest thing to explain in my experience.0 -
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