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Jun 2020
9:02am, 23 Jun 2020
1,659 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
...and cow corner led to the term, having a moo....
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Jun 2020
9:10am, 23 Jun 2020
21,346 posts
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TRO Saracen
Third man?
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Jun 2020
9:11am, 23 Jun 2020
20,923 posts
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Nicholls595
 If any batsmen I was bowling at missed a massive mow to cow corner, I was partial to the odd fingers on head for horns moooooooooooooo down the pitch
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Jun 2020
9:11am, 23 Jun 2020
5,891 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
'Giving it the long handle' always seemed like an odd expression. Though cricket bat sizing was strange altogether.
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Jun 2020
9:12am, 23 Jun 2020
20,924 posts
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Nicholls595
Third man is an actual fielding position TRO (it's in the MCC Coaching Manual)
On the boundary, off side, behind the slips and gulley region (about 45 degrees)
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Jun 2020
9:21am, 23 Jun 2020
5,892 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
I hate the current vogue for playing with 'ball in hand' and 'bat in hand', the annoying Mr Vaughn being a particular culprit.
1. We have managed for years to say the same thing without adding 'in hand'.
2. Nothing is happening with 'ball in hand' you numpty. Action requires 'ball out of hand'.
3. Where else were you holding the bat? Lodged where the sun doesn't shine?
I think the lack of cricket or baseball is pushing me over the edge...
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Jun 2020
9:24am, 23 Jun 2020
20,926 posts
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Nicholls595
Dennis Lillee once famously played "bat out of hand"
Anyone else get wound up by calling batsmen batters?
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Jun 2020
9:25am, 23 Jun 2020
5,894 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Creeping American influence Nicholls...
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Jun 2020
9:28am, 23 Jun 2020
20,927 posts
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Nicholls595
Wasn't sure if it had come from the ladies game? I seem to recall the first time I heard it was when Ebony- Rainsford-Boring was boring me to death.
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Jun 2020
9:39am, 23 Jun 2020
27,325 posts
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Wriggling Snake
I reckon Batters is Aussie talk, didn't the England Women's team have an Aussie coach back then...
Does anyone else remember the Village Cup final being on telly? It always looked a massed day out on the pop, with food and cricket thrown in for good measure.
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