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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
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membersstand
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By the way Dan Thomas is a member of the Assn of Cricket Statisticians and Historians:
Daniel Thomas
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I only joined ACS in April 1997. I have an avid interest in cricket statistics mainly Test Matches and 1-Day Internationals. I have also written a cricket simulation (International Test Cricket - available at REMOVED) for Windows based PCs that uses statistics to play Test Matches. I also run a Cricket PBeM league that uses ITC to play its matches.
Daniel Thomas
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I only joined ACS in April 1997. I have an avid interest in cricket statistics mainly Test Matches and 1-Day Internationals. I have also written a cricket simulation (International Test Cricket - available at REMOVED) for Windows based PCs that uses statistics to play Test Matches. I also run a Cricket PBeM league that uses ITC to play its matches.
membersstand
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Am afraid I can't get it with the resources I have at hand 
I think it'll go to someone with either a fat encyclopedia or the right cricket book.
I think it'll go to someone with either a fat encyclopedia or the right cricket book.
membersstand
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Sorry SJS didn't see that before..It was in a poem by Richard someone. It's still open in another window I think... (I've got about 50 open thanks to this question)
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ARGH I've closed it !!!!!
I remember it was footnote 19, is that enough ? **hopes**
I remember it was footnote 19, is that enough ? **hopes**
membersstand
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It wasn't Richard but here it is...
19 (Barty-King, 1979, p. 29) A poem, dedicated to the Duke of Dorset, refers to a crimson ball.
19 (Barty-King, 1979, p. 29) A poem, dedicated to the Duke of Dorset, refers to a crimson ball.
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And then stick that onto the paragraph above...membersstand said:
Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
Haha, damn! SIX consecutive posts!
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Still no answer though. It's now 2.46AM and my plane leaves at 6.30AM. I think I ahould sleep...Robertinho said:Haha, damn! SIX consecutive posts!
There is a theory(for the reason why the cricket ball is red) that original balls may have been balls of tightly bound wool, matted together with the reddle or ochre, (a red iron-ore used in marking) which was used to mark sheep. But this is purely hypothesis with no supporting evidence.
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But why it was CRIMSON ?shankar said:
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I hope the answer is that it's the queen's colour... (yes that's a guess)
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Must..pack..bag. Be..back..soon..
**stumbles off to bedroom, one hand feeling the path ahead and one holding his eyelid open**
**stumbles off to bedroom, one hand feeling the path ahead and one holding his eyelid open**
Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
Where are you going? Where are you going FROM? haha..
Neil Pickup
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Edward tells me to tell you he's going to Melbourne for a family holiday...Robertinho said:
membersstand
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OK I'm done. If I had a million dollars I think I'd put it on Jason for this question...
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LOL thanks Neil.Neil Pickup said:
Have a good week all and if Burkey or Bookie get out of hand (ok perhaps I should stop now)
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Hi Guys. I was out the whole night. Imagine partying like that at my age 
but I had a great time and returned at 6 in the morning 
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Anyway. Yes Memberstand is right about the poem and its origins. Well done indeed.
Just to put on record, the poem was called Sevenoke:A Poem, which describes a match on the Sevenoaks Vine ground and refers to 'the crimson ball'.
The second part of the question may be very difficult to find an answer to so I will give it myself.
Prabably by accident the colour at the opposite end of the spectrum to the green (of the grass on the field) was adopted but this happens to be the perfect contrast for the human eye cannot focus the two colours simultaneously !!
Memberstand, your turn next.
PS. Guru Jason, I hope this question passes the mustard and rates low on the frivolity scale
. Kidding.
but I had a great time and returned at 6 in the morning .Anyway. Yes Memberstand is right about the poem and its origins. Well done indeed.
Just to put on record, the poem was called Sevenoke:A Poem, which describes a match on the Sevenoaks Vine ground and refers to 'the crimson ball'.
The second part of the question may be very difficult to find an answer to so I will give it myself.
Prabably by accident the colour at the opposite end of the spectrum to the green (of the grass on the field) was adopted but this happens to be the perfect contrast for the human eye cannot focus the two colours simultaneously !!
Memberstand, your turn next.
PS. Guru Jason, I hope this question passes the mustard and rates low on the frivolity scale
. Kidding.
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biased indian
International Coach
i think MS is gone for a week so some else may ask a good Question