Throwing Stuff

[MrPrez]

I'm up for a game, Cribbo.

 

[ganeshran]

When I play backyard cricket, you cannot throw stuff at other people. It will result in two runs. These "things" incldue little gumnuts off tree, grass, shoes (yes, shoes) and other things. the rule was brought in at the arrival of the shoe, as it happened I got out, after Sanka threw a shoe at me. He won the innings due to this, with the worst bowler (Matt) still haveing 3 balls to go, off which I neede 1 run.

Well one day, needing 4 runs to rake the lead (and virtaully win) and to reach my double century (dont ask, wierd scoring system), Nick got me out. I was so dissapointed, knowing I had lost.

The next bastman in was David, whos average was only twenty and high score was 104. Yes we actually calculate this. He had no hope of reaching 200, so Nick (the one who got me out) was going to win.

Sanka (the shoe guy) then decided he didnt want Nick to win and threw 4 gumnuts at me! results in 8 runs, winning me the match and giving me my first double centrury. Nick was so dissapointed and annoyed at Sanka that he began yelling and screaming at him.

Since then the throwing rule has changed, as have the scoring system. Well, the thrpowing rule hasnt really cganged, just the scoring system making less attractive. Now bowling is included to your score, subtracting it from a HUGE batting total, sometimes over 300, but most scores end up at about 60. This meaning that if you throw something at someone, they get 10 runs and you have ten runs against your bowling, giving you a lower final score.
And if the outcome of your score has already been decided, the runs go to the next innings.

omg

pews is only 23? I always thought he'd be atleast half as old as Burgey.

 

[Furball]

omg

pews is only 23? I always thought he'd be atleast half as old as Burgey.

 

[uvelocity]

omg

pews is only 23? I always thought he'd be atleast half as old as Burgey.

if moses was still around only he would be half as old as burgey

 

[ajdude]

Reckon PEWS tells all his mates about this and encourages them to dig it. Secretly loves the attention.

think the most alarming thing in this thread is that this guy has salman butt as part of the future of international cricket

 

[uvelocity]

email him about it imo

 

[Jono]

ajdude cracks me up so much

 

[GIMH]

I miss Perm

 

[Burgey]

omg

pews is only 23? I always thought he'd be atleast half as old as Burgey.

Who are you ffs? Why are you making these age jokes? I should, I suppose, be flattered and ought to make a little joke back, but I'm afraid you're so monumentally nondescript I'm not able to.

 

[ganeshran]

ffs, this was the only joke I made about your age. The eastwood photo was a joke on old people in general, and the last time I checked you are not the only old person around here.

Mods, pls delete my earlier post.

 

[benchmark00]

Another thread on chucking. ffs.

 

[Fusion]

Another thread on chucking. ffs.

 

[BeeGee]

Top thread.

 

[Daemon]

Another thread on chucking. ffs.

 

[Viscount Tom]

think the most alarming thing in this thread is that this guy has salman butt as part of the future of international cricket

Its one hell of a world XI it has RaviBop in it too.

 

[morgieb]

Who are you ffs? Why are you making these age jokes? I should, I suppose, be flattered and ought to make a little joke back, but I'm afraid you're so monumentally nondescript I'm not able to.

 

[Burgey]

Zip it, ****.

You have to earn your stripes to make an ageist joke. It's nothing personal against Ganeshran who's a good fella.

And as for you, ****. Here I was going to post how you're the most improved poster on the forum in the BOTM thread. Well, gagfc.

That and trhe bottle of Villa Maria at lunch has rendered me disinclined to do so! WAC.

 

[GIMH]

Guys, I've just liked the OP. It's a travesty that it previously had no likes, let's make it the most liked post in the history of CW

 

[Prince EWS]

In my youth, I regularly played backyard cricket with some of my neighbours who were roughly the same age as I. We developed some really unorthodox rules to counteract the environmental hazards at play.

One such rule outlawed throwing anything at the other players, particularly while they were batting. Penalty runs would ensue if this rule was broken. The reason behind this was fairly simple; players used to throw all sorts of random objects that could found on the field at the batsman to distract him. Gumnuts, grass and eventually even shoes were thrown, which saw to the introduction of the eventual rule after a shoe cost me a match to the shoe-thrower.

These penalty rules essentially got me a win one day. I was four runs short of victory when I was dismissed, before one of the fielders decided to throw gumnuts at me. It was a deliberate concession of penalty runs out of spite, to stop another player he was having a tiff with from finishing on top. The rules had to be tinkered again after that.

Good times.

 

[Hurricane]

If we do a this is your life on PEWS we have to track down Sanka.