I wonder how quickly the light goes at this venue, could come in handy on day 5 trying to save the game
Time for the Bell to toll..... Bell end...... Hells Bells.... Bell ****.....() Dumb Bell..... There's the door Bell..... A headline writers dream
Rounders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the game. For the movie, see Rounders (film). For other uses, see Rounder (disambiguation). Rounders please log in to view this image A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.Highestgoverning bodyRounders England / Gaelic Athletic AssociationFirst playedEngland, 1500s (unified rules 1884)CharacteristicsTeam members2 teams of 5–15 Rounders (Irish: cluiche corr) is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.[1][2] The game is popular among Irish and British school children.[3][4] Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. A maximum of nine players are allowed to field at any time. Points (known as 'rounders') are scored by the batting team when one of their players completes a circuit past four bases without being put 'out'. History[edit] The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,[1] with the earliest reference[1][5] being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called "base-ball"[6] by John Newbery. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.[7] The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts.[8] The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated by the GAA in Ireland. In Great Britain it is regulated by Rounders England, which was formed in 1943. While the two associations are distinct, they share similar elements of game play and culture. Competitions are held between teams from both traditions, with games alternating between codes and one version being played in the morning and the other in the afternoon. After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool and Scotland in 1889. Both the 'New York game' and the now-defunct 'Massachusetts game' versions of baseball, as well as softball, share the same historical roots as rounders and bear a resemblance to the GAA version of the game. Rounders is linked to British baseball, which is still played in Liverpool, Cardiff and Newport. Although rounders is assumed to be older than baseball, literary references to early forms of 'base-ball' in England pre-date use of the term rounders. The game is now played up to international level. Rules[edit] While Rounders England[9] and GAA[10] codes differ, they share much in common. The bowler, or 'feeder', bowls the ball with an underarm pendulum action to the batter. According to Rounders England rules, the ball is deemed a 'good' ball if it passes within reach on the striking side between the batter's knees and the top of the head. Otherwise, it is called a 'no-ball' or 'bad' ball. The ball is also regarded as bad if it is thrown into the batter's body or wide of the batting box. A batter may try to hit a bad ball but is not required to do so. A player is not out if a no-ball is caught and can't be called out on first base. When a batter leaves the post, each runner on a post may run to the next and succeeding posts. A post runner cannot be declared out when standing at a post. The batter must keep in contact with the post to avoid being declared out. A rounder is scored if one of the batting team completes a circuit without being out. The NRA rules state that a half rounder is scored if half a circuit is completed by a player without being put out, or if the batter has not hit the ball but makes it all the way to the fourth base. A batter is out if a fielder catches the ball cleanly; the batter reaches a base that had been 'stumped' by a fielder; the bat is dropped whilst the batter is running; the batter leaves the base before the bowler has bowled the ball; the batter is 'run out' by the next batter.
David Lloyd commented that Bell hasn't gone beyond 60 odd in his last twenty innings. I doubt there were many 50s during that time. How he's clung onto his place is a joke. In general he's cheated his way through his England career, hardly ever performing when it matters and playing a match winning innings even less frequently.
Only 4 non sub continent team have chased that down in over 300 tests apparently (or something like that). What they're saying is, england are ****ed.
Well it hasn't gone well has it. Its about time someone gave Cook and Root a hand with the bat. Its always the same. One of them scores a biggy, 1 or 2 players score 40 odd and the rest collapse. Always the same whilst ive followed cricket. Always better at bowling.
