Talk:Cricket (disambiguation)

rec.sport.cricket

Do you suppose its worth a gentle plug on rec.sport.cricket. There are many v. knowledgable people there that could really help this, is specially w.r.t. Asian cricket.

 Yes, I do, but I'm not a reader of that newsgroup.  If somebody else wants to do that it would be excellent!  Robert Merkel

clearer summary

the main entry is already a clearer summary of cricket PLAY than I've ever read (just TRY being an American reading British murder mysteries and reading games instructions to figure it out!) --MichaelTinkler

I daresay that the insect is the first thing people think of when someone says "cricket," especially outside of the UK. --KQ

(or large amounts of Asia and other scattered outposts of civilisation :)

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I wish someone would describe googlie and Yorker in as equally clear a manner!

I'm a first time user of this service. I found the page because I wanted to find out the name of the Australian cricket player who invented the googlie, as many years ago I met him. I played cricket in school in Toronto, Canada. I was a deadly spin bowler. The googlie is not a "fast ball" it is a unique spin ball. It is delivered by releasing the ball out of the bottom of the palm of your hand (without using your fingers to try to impart spin to the ball). At the point of release the back of your hand should face the batter, so the release is actually out of the top of your hand because your hand is upside down. Your aiming point is about 2/3 of the way down the pitch and you want two bounces before reaching the batter. For some reason, the ball spins slightly left on the first bounce and slightly right on the second. A half yorker is a ball that arrives above the feet but below the knees of the batter. A full yorker arrives above the knees but below the top of the wickets. That is like a fast ball. If you, or anyone you know can remember the name of the guy I'm trying to remember, plse email me at mrmichaelmouse@shaw.ca. howzthat.

The inventor of the googly was Bernard Bosenquet, an English player who played first class cricket from 1898 to 1919. Either you're the oldest person to ever use this site, or somebody was pulling your leg. We should have an article about this guy. --Robert Merkel 00:13 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)

I got a real chuckle out of your answer; I guess someone was pulling my leg. More likely someone said that this non Bernard entity was well known for his googly. I guess if I can't spell it, I shouldn't wax on it. I appreciate your response. Michael

True or false??

True or false: it is better to use this article for the insect and move other articles to Cricket (disambiguation). 66.32.69.62 23:43, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

false

False - better to move cricket (sport) here and move this article to cricket (disambiguation). -- ALoan (Talk) 20:09, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

False - Agree with ALoan -- Emsworth 21:42, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

true

Patently true, but there's no point in fighting sports fans. — Pekinensis 05:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

True. Crickets have been called crickets before the sport came about.

Types of cricket

Do we really need the types of cricket mentioned in this dis-ambiguation page?? This is a dis-ambiguation page for the meanings of the word cricket, not the types of cricket. 66.32.246.73 01:32, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Proposal: Cricket moved to Cricket (sport) and Cricket (disambiguation) moved to Cricket

On Talk:Cricket, there is a discussion of whether cricket should be moved to cricket (sport) so cricket (disambiguation) can move to cricket. Nereocystis 19:11, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

The consensus was not to move the page. Philip Baird Shearer 12:01, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't find a discussion on Talk:Cricket, why's that? --Commander Keane 17:04, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Cricket/archive6 -- ALoan (Talk) 17:38, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

If we are to be consistent, we must go ahead with the proposal.--Bedford 04:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• I think it's no surprise that the proposal was defeated; the poll took place on the talk page for the sport, so naturally it attracted more attention from people interested in the sport. If we are to take a poll to gauge consensus, it must take place on neutral ground. Andrew Levine 19:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)