Ashes!!!

[tiggymalvern]

England have them!!!!

Kevin Pietersen made up for all his dropped catches with an innings of 158. I suspect it will be a long time before Shane Warne forgives himself for dropping that easy catch when he was on 15....

And Ashley Giles made a half century - all those years when England's tail would collapse for 10, and now we have some bowlers who can wave a bat productively. Wow.

Comments

[alcina2.livejournal.com]

Explanation here...

http://www.334notout.com/ashes/ashbegin.htm

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The answer, as Alcina's link reveals, has a great deal to do with people's weird senses of humour and a long-running joke, which is very much in keeping with the spirit of cricket. England's most important matches are all about winning a rather ugly, useless and technically valueless symbol. Valueless unless you happen to like cricket, of course XD

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Absolutely XD. If you don't know what a wicket or an over is, there's probably no good place to start! But then I know almost nothing about the scoring system in baseball and all its little quirks, so I can claim no real superiority.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

The best way I can think of is to rent Lagaan - it's almost 4 hours long, but it's SUPER fun and goes by very quickly, it's a musical, and the lead character is adorable.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282674/

Any vague knowledge of cricket I have is from this movie. :-)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly XD My dad was a cricket-watcher, among others.