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Tonk a Pom
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of October, 5 Comments »
Forgot to mention in the previous post that Ford are also offering Australians the chance to “tonk a Pom“, in case they wish to relive their glory days last season. Of course, no self-respecting Aussie would lower himself to such heinous activity, right?
5 Comments »The geek in all of us
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of August, 6 Comments »
When I was a rather pathetic geek of a teenager, I used to pass the time during advanced mathematics AS level classes, which I had somehow fluked my way into, by developing a system of calculator cricket, using the random-number generator button. Immense charts were drawn up to reckon the probability of dot-balls, run outs, even the odds of bad weather intervening. It used to take about one hour of advanced maths to play 90 overs so during the course of a term, several Test or first-class series could be completed and that meant conjuring teams to take on each other while I was pretending to be solving quadratic equations.
So says our chum Patrick Kidd in his greatest county XIs piece last week. Reminded me that we used to play Howzat using HB pencils, scratching modes of dismissal with our compasses onto each of the six sides. Simpler times. Let your inner geek out via the comments…
Win the World Cup on your coffee break
By Will 3 years ago, mid-March, No Comments; be the first!
Tim writes to tell me StickCricket, that bastion of time-wasting goodness, have launched a World Cup version of their online game. Not sure how it differs from their normal game as their site doesn’t seem to be working…but have a peek anyway.
No Comments »Stick Cricket
By Will 5 years ago, mid-January, 1 Comment »
Reading this blog reminded me of Stick Cricket, and what a glorious waste of time it is. I also, in an act of boredom, curiosity and lacking all reality, paid £5 and downloaded Michael Vaughan Cricket to my Nokia 6600. It’s suprisingly fun, for the first 2 minutes and will make train journeys (not that I make many nowadays) slightly more bearable.
