Barmy Army
I wouldn't be surprised if residents of the US hadn't heard of the BARMY ARMY
One of the main sports in Australia is called cricket. Think baseball on vallium.
I actually find myself less than stimulated by cricket, and have found sticking hot pins through my eyelids, a lot more fun.
This does make me a minority in this country though, and as you know, minority groups are often frowned on, and eventually laws are passed to get rid of them.
So anything I saw here is open to challenge by those copious quantities of "armchair experts" that seem to suddenly pop up from everywhere at times such as when the cricket match stops for lunch.
The rules of cricket can be hard to follow by minority groups. It is also not uncommon for the test match to be played for a whole week, and the result is a draw, which must be very deflating.
I have managed to find the basic rules for you so that you can pull up a beer and turn on the TV sport to cricket.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game
The English are also known to be fond of their cricket team too, and have a travelling fan club called the Barmy Army, and I passed their headquarters last weekend, where lots of experts would be discussing why England gave Australia a thrashing in the first series last week.
Wiki says
The Barmy Army is a sometimes controversial, semi-organised group of cricket fans which arranges touring parties for some of its members to follow the English cricket team on overseas tours, was given its name by the Australian media during the 1994 - 1995 Test series in Australia, reportedly for the fans' audacity in travelling to Australia in the near-certain knowledge that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept on chanting even when England were losing quite badly.
this is actually a Brisbane PUB in the city, not too far from the cricket grounds.
Barmy Army
I wouldn't be surprised if residents of the US hadn't heard of the BARMY ARMY
One of the main sports in Australia is called cricket. Think baseball on vallium.
I actually find myself less than stimulated by cricket, and have found sticking hot pins through my eyelids, a lot more fun.
This does make me a minority in this country though, and as you know, minority groups are often frowned on, and eventually laws are passed to get rid of them.
So anything I saw here is open to challenge by those copious quantities of "armchair experts" that seem to suddenly pop up from everywhere at times such as when the cricket match stops for lunch.
The rules of cricket can be hard to follow by minority groups. It is also not uncommon for the test match to be played for a whole week, and the result is a draw, which must be very deflating.
I have managed to find the basic rules for you so that you can pull up a beer and turn on the TV sport to cricket.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game
The English are also known to be fond of their cricket team too, and have a travelling fan club called the Barmy Army, and I passed their headquarters last weekend, where lots of experts would be discussing why England gave Australia a thrashing in the first series last week.
Wiki says
The Barmy Army is a sometimes controversial, semi-organised group of cricket fans which arranges touring parties for some of its members to follow the English cricket team on overseas tours, was given its name by the Australian media during the 1994 - 1995 Test series in Australia, reportedly for the fans' audacity in travelling to Australia in the near-certain knowledge that their team would lose, and the fact that they kept on chanting even when England were losing quite badly.
this is actually a Brisbane PUB in the city, not too far from the cricket grounds.