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taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 00:02
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 01:35
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 01:43
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 01:45
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 01:58
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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Oct 16, 2023 01:59
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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One often hears British coaches in the cricketing circles say that the Afghan has more in common with the English cricketer than other players on the pitch. This is because he is an individualist. Personality has more play on the cricket field, and the Afghan player is not bound by the complicated ritual that lays so many restrictions on the Indian cricketer. His game is more free. He is more direct and outspoken, not so suspicious or self-conscious. He is a gambler and a sportsman, and a bit of an adventurer, restless by nature, and always ready to take on a new inning. He has a good deal of joie de vivre. His sense of humour approximates to that of the English bowler, and is much more subtle than the Gurkha's, though he laughs at the same jokes. He will share a cricket bat with the Dublin players and share his cricket gloves with the men of Cardiff or Kent. He is a highlander, and so, like the Gurkhas, naturally attracted by the Scot. Yet behind all these superficial points of resemblance he has a code which in ultimate things cuts him off from the British cricketer with as clean a line of demarcation as an unbridged crevasse. The Afghan's code is very simple and distinct in primal and essential things. The laws of hospitality, retaliation, and the sanctuary of his home ground to the guest or opponent are seldom violated. But acting within the code the Afghan can indulge his competitive spirit, strategy, and vindictiveness to an extent unsanctioned by the tables of the law prescribed by other teams and creeds. It is a fierce code, and the only saving grace about the game is that the Afghan is true to it, such as it is, and expects to be dealt with by others as he deals by them. The main fact in cricket across the border is the rivalry, or cricket-feud. Few families or tribes are without their vendettas. Everything that matters hinges on them, and if an old feud is settled by mediation through the umpire, there are seeds of a new one ready to spring up in every match. The favour of fans, sledges, injuries, defeat, victory, rankings, --all these disputes are taken up by the kin of the men concerned, and it is a point of honour to outplay, openly or by stealth, any one connected by team with the other side, however innocent he may be of the original provocation. Truces are arranged at times by mutual convenience for training, practice, or tournaments; but as a rule it is very difficult for a man involved in a cricket-feud to leave his pavilion, and still more difficult for him to return to it. It will be understood that the Afghan is an artist in taking cover. He probably has a strategy of his own from his dugout to his field, and no one better understands the uses of dead ground. source
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Frosted Flake posted:One often hears British coaches in the cricketing circles say that the Afghan has more in common with the English cricketer than other players on the pitch. This is because he is an individualist. Personality has more play on the cricket field, and the Afghan player is not bound by the complicated ritual that lays so many restrictions on the Indian cricketer. His game is more free. He is more direct and outspoken, not so suspicious or self-conscious. He is a gambler and a sportsman, and a bit of an adventurer, restless by nature, and always ready to take on a new inning. He has a good deal of joie de vivre. His sense of humour approximates to that of the English bowler, and is much more subtle than the Gurkha's, though he laughs at the same jokes. He will share a cricket bat with the Dublin players and share his cricket gloves with the men of Cardiff or Kent. He is a highlander, and so, like the Gurkhas, naturally attracted by the Scot. Yet behind all these superficial points of resemblance he has a code which in ultimate things cuts him off from the British cricketer with as clean a line of demarcation as an unbridged crevasse. didnt read
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Oct 16, 2023 03:10
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eat poo poo forever limeys
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Afghanistan Beat England By 69 Runs
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Oct 16, 2023 03:22
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not clicking that poo poo. and its not even close
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Oct 16, 2023 03:46
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i watched some highlights and what the gently caress even is cricket lol
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smarxist posted:i watched some highlights and what the gently caress even is cricket lol There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote -- 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, -- Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' This is the word that year by year, While in her place the School is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare forget. This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind -- 'Play up! play up! and play the game!'
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smarxist posted:i watched some highlights and what the gently caress even is cricket lol retard baseball
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Ohtori Akio posted:retard baseball British baseball oh wait lol
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Oct 16, 2023 04:17
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smarxist posted:i watched some highlights and what the gently caress even is cricket lol i had a coworker explain it to me at length, twice, and i couldn't tell you a thing about it something about wicketts???
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smarxist posted:i watched some highlights and what the gently caress even is cricket lol Yeah hard to get excited at the fact Britain failed at a game they ostensibly made up when the rules only make sense if you're on LSD or drink 8 cups of tea a day.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:06
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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evilmiera posted:Yeah hard to get excited at the fact Britain failed at a game they ostensibly made up when the rules only make sense if you're on LSD or drink 8 cups of tea a day. back in the 1970s and 1980s they were constantly owned by the Caribbean nations they had colonized and the most famous book written about cricket is by CLR James, who also wrote "the black jacobins"
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it looks like some made up sport in an 80's sci-fi flick, like there's sticks with flashy glowy things on them, and body armor and a crazy circle field. wild poo poo
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There's an interesting book on the British trying to keep cricket out of the hands of colonial subjects A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book, but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a long epilogue bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 18:28 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Oct 16, 2023 18:26
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quote:The pantheon of great sporting upsets gained another monument on Sunday as Afghanistan roundly defeated England by 69 runs lmao hell yeah
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tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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cat botherer posted:cricket is extremely boring and dumb so this is actually an L for the taliban it's extremely funny to beat the english at the world's most gay rear end sport for dorks, which they invented
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Zedhe Khoja posted:eat poo poo forever limeys tristeham posted:taliban ftw
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