Probably one of the funniest cricketting quotations leads me nicely into a short homage to this years Ashes contest.
I’m a football fan, through and through. But over the last 5 years of so I have come to appreciate cricket in a new light; it’s very relaxing to watch, and, on occasion, can be exciting too. I admit that not all cricket is exciting (but then, not all football is either), but this years Ashes have been something else. I’ve never been so rivetted to a game of cricket in my life. And I, for one, am glad to see people getting back into the sport – some of them even north of the Border.
As an aside, I thought that I would take a look at the demos of a couple of cricketting games – EA’s Cricket 2005 and CodeMasters’ Brian Lara thingy. Here’s a quick summary based on the demos:
- Both games look and sound fine. Both have a tendency, however, to spend ages on replays and crap like that, meaning that playing the game takes a while. BL is probably better than EA in that respect.
- EA is far to complicated to bat. Trying to get anything but a defensive stroke is really tricky. The demo doesn’t let you bowl or field, which is a pain too.
- BL is fun to bat. It was a great feeling to hit Glen McGrath for six
You also get to bowl, which I haven’t mastered yet, and some fielding. It just feels more “fun”.
So – buy BL if you really want a cricket game 
7 days until the final test.
mrBen
Ah, yes. I have the original Brian Lara cricket, and it’s brilliant. I shall defo be ordering the new one soon. On the original, my best score was 948/6 dec…. I was concerned about what would happen when I got to 1,000. I think the game was drawn, from memory… though very enjoyable
Yeah, I watched cricket the other day and fell asleep into my pudding!
How unlikely!
Also there was a guy on the t.v. who fell asleep at the wheel of his car last week, while listening to cricket commentary. As he was being released from hospital the police came to pick him up. Before the officers charged him they asked his to describe how he came to fall asleep at the wheel. While describing the commentary the police-officers fell asleep too!
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Britains GMC (General Medical Council) have issued a health warning suggesting that people going to see hypnotists and people who watch the ‘parliament live’ channel, shouldn’t, in the same week, watch a game of cricket due to severe risk of developing narcolepsy. One man, Imabo Ringguy, who did all three sadly died the other day.
Telling stories, I think.
Okay, I made all that up. You get the picture though. If I ever develop insomnia I’ll consider taking lots of sleeping tablets, hot milk and possibly get into cricket.