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Can you beat for the cricket guru title?
- Thread starter Pratters
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1) The fielder was originally posted there to save a third run in the off-side field?
2) Favourite place to let the first-change a.k.a. third bowler warm up?
3) He's in a straight line with wicket and third slip?
4) He's normally the third-best fielder after the two slips?
5) Thick as the English upper class are, they count one-two-three-uhhh-three, therefore Mr. Idiot posted on the boundary is by definition a third man, as in, one of many inconsequential ones?
6) If you look at the trajectory of a ball that was taken at third man after one bounce, it looks like a 3 toppled sideways, like an m like?
7) The first man to be ever posted in that position was maliciously nicknamed Third Man by his teammates after his wife ran off with a pair of identical twins?
8) This fielding position is traditionally closest to the bar; Third Man used to be Thirsty Man but that term was banned due to suspected ambush marketing?
9) Third man orbits the wicket between overs, just like the earth, the Third Stone, does the sun?
10) Why do I even care?
2) Favourite place to let the first-change a.k.a. third bowler warm up?
3) He's in a straight line with wicket and third slip?
4) He's normally the third-best fielder after the two slips?
5) Thick as the English upper class are, they count one-two-three-uhhh-three, therefore Mr. Idiot posted on the boundary is by definition a third man, as in, one of many inconsequential ones?
6) If you look at the trajectory of a ball that was taken at third man after one bounce, it looks like a 3 toppled sideways, like an m like?
7) The first man to be ever posted in that position was maliciously nicknamed Third Man by his teammates after his wife ran off with a pair of identical twins?
8) This fielding position is traditionally closest to the bar; Third Man used to be Thirsty Man but that term was banned due to suspected ambush marketing?
9) Third man orbits the wicket between overs, just like the earth, the Third Stone, does the sun?
10) Why do I even care?
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Okay. Here it is.burkey_1988 said:
Originally, the keeper usde to stand up to most bowlers and even if he stood back, the long stop or a man to cover for the balls that the keeper missed was always a part of the field placing.
Thus two people, keeper and the long stop did the wicket keeping job in a way.
The long stop also ran around to cover the edges or cuts that escaped the slips.
When a bowler was too fast or too many balls were edged/played through the slips and too far for the long stop to cover, a THIRD FIELDER or a third man was used to cover the area which is squarer and more like todays backward point.
This came to be called third man. Even when long stops went out of fashion (at least in the top stamndards of the game), this position remained. At that time, squarer, behind third slip and gully region was the area. But finer for faster bowlers.
I think, the fact that, it was behind gully, and maybe because they might be removing the squarer of the slips to post him deep, was the reason for the answer Burkey got from GOOGLE. But the name third man came not because of third slip, but because he was the third person after the keeper and long stop to do thois job behind square on the off side.
Any of you guys can go next.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
I read it in a book but I cant recall whichburkey_1988 said:
I must have the book of course but difficult to check from all the books I have.
Want me to try ?
By the way, I find your google one also very intersting and plausible since Ranji in his coaching book always shows the third man fielder at deep gully, almost on the fence. Thats why I asked where you read that.
It raised a doubt in my mind too.
Burpey
Cricketer Of The Year
In hindsight, yes ... however, I have been criticised a few times for the difficulty of my questions on guru thread *cough*JASON*cough* so my last few have been fairly easy. I will no longer be initimidated because a certain Victorian thinks i am killing the thread.SJS said:
