Leather and Willow

[Phil Carter]

So, after day 2..England need 3 more wickets inside 90 runs and it is all over.

Or 3 more wickets and a few runs...

Australia need...

A blinking miracle. Plus bad weather.
Then another miracle. Then another.

A little sing song courtesy if the beach boys....

The urn's coming home. .the urn's coming home..
With Cook our captain
The urn's coming home.

Strike up the John B' s sails
see how the main sail sets
Call Clarkey from shore..
It's time to go home...
It's time you went home...
It's time you went home...
Say "bye" to the ashes....
It's time to go home.

Now Johnson has bowled a few
About One for a hundred and two
And your batting with those nicks 'round the 5th stump..
(Round the 5th stump)
When the ball dips
It ends up in the slips
Catching the ashes. .its time you went home...

so.....

Strike up the John B's sails
See how the main sail sets
Call Clarkey from shore
It's time to go home ..
it's time you went home
It's time you went home
Say "bye bye" ashes
It's time to go home.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Think that one is older than you Monty.

"Can I speak to Michael Clarke, please?"

"Sorry, mate, he's just gone out to bat. Can I take a message for him?"

"No, it's fine, I'll hold".

[GUT]

Class, like me, never ages.

Monty


PS Enjoy your day.

Thanks mate I will as long as I don't watch the cricket.

Hey tonight we take on he All Blacks in Rugby, maybe the rugged boys can redeem some Aussie pride.

[GUT]

"Can I speak to Michael Clarke, please?"

"Sorry, mate, he's just gone out to bat. Can I take a message for him?"

"No, it's fine, I'll hold".

There actually was a true incident Similar to that involving Dougie Walters.

It was well known that if Dougie put his cards face down on the table and his Ciggie in the ashtray he would be out for a duck, or close thereto, but if he threw his cards in and stubbed out his cigarette you were in for a treat of batsmanship.

Apparently one day a call came for him and Chapel said, oh his ciggies still smoking so he won't be long if you want to hold, another time the answer was Sorry he put fis fag out so he'll be a while.

[Monty]

Well,

That was easy.

Monty

[GUT]

Well,

That was easy.

Monty

Simply appalling that.

[Pcdunn]

A little thing called "The Ashes"

Okay, a Brit on another forum posted a pictures of the urn with The Ashes, and I just need to know -- WHOSE ashes are in there?

Also, why is the game called "cricket"?

[GUT]

Okay, a Brit on another forum posted a pictures of the urn with The Ashes, and I just need to know -- WHOSE ashes are in there?

Also, why is the game called "cricket"?

The ashes are the ashes from the stumps (the three sticks at each end of the pitch or wicket) and bails (the bit that goes across the top of the stumps) that we're burnt after the Aussies gave the POMS a good thrashing many years ago, prompting the press to declare "Cricket is dead".

I have no idea as to why it is called cricket.

[GUT]

Following from my ansew to Dunny above, I think cricket may now be dead in Aus, it was embarrassing. At least we beat the Kiwis in the Bledisloe last night.

[Monty]

Cricket comes from the word cric, I believe, an alternative form of crook.

Legend has it, the game was orginally played by shepherds with their crooks, and stones...and still they got more than 60 all out.

Monty

[Rosella]

This is the story of the little urn which was presented to the Bligh team when they were playing a private cricket match in Victoria. One of the ladies in the house party rushed to her room and gave them one of her little perfume jars. They burned a bail and shoved some of the ashes in it on that occasion. The Ashes and urn haven't left the MCC since it was gifted in the 1920's.

http://www.lords.org/history/mcc-history/the-ashes/

[Phil Carter]

Hello Gut,

I believe the ashes were from the bails only..not the stump..simply because there isn't room for that amount of ashes in the tiny urn used.


Phil

[pinkmoon]

I think you will find my best mate Phil is right.

[Pcdunn]

This is the story of the little urn which was presented to the Bligh team when they were playing a private cricket match in Victoria. One of the ladies in the house party rushed to her room and gave them one of her little perfume jars. They burned a bail and shoved some of the ashes in it on that occasion. The Ashes and urn haven't left the MCC since it was gifted in the 1920's.

http://www.lords.org/history/mcc-history/the-ashes/

Interesting! Thank you for the link, Rosella.

I still don't know why they named the game after an insect, though. I mean, look at "baseball"-- we have balls and bases in the game, so it sort of makes sense to call it that. Do they keep lucky crickets at the clubhouses? Is it because they play until the crickets start to chirp (i.e, for several hours)?
I shall research this further.

[GUT]

Cricket comes from the word cric, I believe, an alternative form of crook.

Legend has it, the game was orginally played by shepherds with their crooks, and stones...and still they got more than 60 all out.

Monty

That's one of the options, there are also a number of other explanations, I think it dates back to the 1500's.