The rules of cricket…in French

Nice, Will. It’s not “les suivants d’eliminations”. It’s “les cas d’elimination”. When it says “dans les cas suivants”, that translates as “in the following cases”, and we’re talking about cases of elimination, not followings of elimination (whatever that might mean).

I have to say it’s the shortest explanationa I’ve ever seen for the LBW rule (“The batsman touches the ball with a leg instead of the bat”), though it leaves out quite a lot. In fact it sounds a lot like “French cricket”.

Nice one Will – much more amusing than my french law judgments! Wish they did it in poster form…

I particularly like the added explanation of one batsman per crease for ‘Elimination en course’. Though the quotation marks they use on stumping suggests that this has been done by an English speaker.

I imagine the French, and anybody else, would be confused if they included: handling the ball, hitting the ball twice, obstructing the field, and timed out – these would have made some amusing diagrams.

I have an explanation of cricket in Russian and Bulgarian somewhere – in Cyrillic – written by the Belarusian and Bulgarian cricket captains. I must dig them out.

That’s excellent, Wraye. Where can we find the whole thing?

You have reminded me of my favourite German word, which is “Schnellwerfpanzerschutzkleidung”, or “armoured clothing to protect against fast bowling”.

What a language!

What a language indeed. I remember so well my most horrendous typing mistake.

“Boden” means ground, okay? My job involves agriculture so I use this word a lot. Look at your keyboard. B is not far away from H. Anyway, anyone can make a mistake, right?

“Hoden” means testicles. I leave you to imagine the rest.

P.S. Ian, am still working on the translation. Hope to have it online at my website in a couple of weeks. It is not easy.

Who would be in a French XI: Richie Benaud surely, Jacques Kallis, Bernard Bosanquet, Andre Adams, Phil Jacques, Jacques Rudolph…

And of course, Monsieurs Andre Nel and Mark Boucher (Mark Butcher’s French namesake).

gooooooooood