Eleven Things I Learnt This Weekend...

[lemonbella]

1) If you wander back and forth across a road bridge, someone will, sooner or later, ask if you need directions.

2) Direction-giving person will not necessarily be right.

3) Whenever anyone tuts and shakes their head, telling you it's too far and you should get a bus, it will only be a half hour walk.

4) Whichever cricket ground I go to I will always be sat directly infront of a group of people with only a tenuous grasp of the rules ("So which one is it when it doesn't bounce before the rope?")

5) I have never seen a man happier with a sandwich than Geraint Jones.

6) Getting public transport may be better for the environment, but it is not better for my blood pressure.

7) Someone at KCCC is having a laugh with the batting order.

8) Just because you have suceeded at staying sunburn free all summer, it does not mean it won't happen in the middle of September.

9) Martin Van Jaarsveld should wander around with his shirt off all the time.

10) Men at cricket matches will always be slightly unnerved by a woman attending by herself.

11) There is a place in the world where Geraint Jones does not get jeered at when he walks out to bat: that place is Canterbury. They cheer! And Sing!

Comments

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I vote for Geraint wandering around with his shirt off along with Van Jaarsveld.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Me too. We should be able to select certain players from each team who are the designated non-shirt wearers.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I say about two per team? Perhaps even three, if they're really fit.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Three per team, (because I can think of three at Kent already) with a discretionary fourth if they're a really fabulous looking team, but they have to apply to the ECB for the extra allocation.

[(Anonymous)]

Do they get to carry their designation over to international level? Because if you limit the number of England players officially allowed to lounge on the balcony in vests to just three, then there's going to be fights.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

That was me

*pokes LJ*

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I think at international level they have to turn it around; Three players are the designated shirt wearers.

*thinks*

In exceptional circumstances (last year's squad) they can apply to the ICC for those three to be allowed to wear the skin tight things.

[jazzy-d.livejournal.com]

Whichever cricket ground I go to I will always be sat directly infront of a group of people with only a tenuous grasp of the rules

Haha, same here. There's always someone nearby saying, "Lovely shot!...Oh, he's out." or "I think what we need are boundaries."

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

There was a rather spectacular discussion about how someone isn't out simply because the wicket-keeper catches the ball, they do actually have to hit it first.

[indian-skimmer.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with people with a tenuous grasp ofthe rules per se. Everyone has to learn, and sometimes I only have a tenuous grasp of the rules myself.

It's people with a tenuous grasp of the rules who *insist on supplying tactical advice to the players despite not knowing how many balls there are in an over*.

My parents sit in front of two people at the rugby who this week spent the entire game yelling "Chip the ball! Why don't you chip the ball!" at the fly half, completely ignoring the fact that the last two times he had chipped the ball the other team had scored 1) a try and 2) a penalty and put us ten points down.

I think they'd probably only just learned what a chip was and were just too eager to use their new word in public.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that I don't understand people's willingness to display their ignorance in public. Surely if you're not entirely sure you keep quiet until you are?