# England; 51 All out **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 8, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933 "2009-02-08T16:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/1 "2009-02-08T16:50:04Z")
All I can say, [bloody hell](http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wiveng2009/content/current/story/389688.html). :mad: That was embarrassing. And unprofessional. And pathetic. Insert appropriate adjective here. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/2 "2009-02-08T16:56:50Z")
I followed the whole thing on the CricInfo live score update. It was like watching Black Friday over a stock ticker. At least Bill Frindall didn’t have to watch this. I could hear him in my mind saying things such as “This is the lowest England have ever been with five wickets down,” followed quickly by “This is the lowest England have ever been with six wickets down”… ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/3 "2009-02-08T17:00:05Z")
What will the Sun say? “Thrashes before the Ashes”? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/4 "2009-02-08T17:13:24Z")
Out of curiousity, what language is that article written in? > [@](#): > > Kevin Pietersen attempted a presumptuous whip through midwicket but instead had his off stump blown from the ground by a searing full-length legcutter :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/5 "2009-02-08T17:22:25Z")
English what else? **sigh** Midwicket: A fielding position Stump: Those vertical things in lieu of bases Legcutter: A type of a cricket delivery (a pitch). ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/6 "2009-02-08T19:21:37Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Kevin Pietersen attempted a presumptuous whip through midwicket but instead had his off stump blown from the ground by a searing full-length legcutter > > Out of curiousity, what language is that article written in? > > :dubious: As AK84 says, it’s just sporting terminology. I’ll have an equivalent go at a US game if you like: Following a flea-flicker play on second and goal, the Redskins quarter-back called an audible and sent John Riggins into the end zone behind a pulling guard. However there was a facemask call just after Riggins spiked the ball. Try understanding that if you’ve never watched US football. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/7 "2009-02-08T21:14:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Following a flea-flicker play on second and goal, the Redskins quarter-back called an audible and sent John Riggins into the end zone behind a pulling guard. However there was a facemask call just after Riggins spiked the ball. It doesn’t make sense even if you DO watch American football. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ahu\_Ha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ahu\_Ha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ahu_Ha)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/8 "2009-02-08T21:23:04Z")
51… wow. 5 ducks in a single innings. I wonder if that’s a test record. ---
**Author:** ![Ahu\_Ha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ahu\_Ha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ahu_Ha)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/9 "2009-02-08T21:30:04Z")
> [@Ahu\_Ha](#): > > 51.. wow. > > 5 ducks in a single innings. I wonder if that’s a test record. Nope, the record is **6**. Set by **Pakistan** (1st Inns) in 1980-1981 v **West Indies** (National Stadium). And.. **South Africa** (2nd Inns) 1996-1997 v **India** 1st Test (Sardar Patel Stadium). [(source)](http://72.14.235.132/search?q=cache:zjrbMiXmjrkJ:www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/Matches/MatchMost0_100.asp%3FStat%3D2+most+ducks+in+a+single+innings&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=au&client=firefox-a) ---
**Author:** ![Ahu\_Ha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Ahu\_Ha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ahu_Ha)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/10 "2009-02-08T21:32:30Z")
> [@Ahu\_Ha](#): > > 51.. wow. > > 5 ducks in a single innings. I wonder if that’s a test record. :smack: Panesar was **not out** on **0** , making it only 4 ducks for the innings anyway. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/11 "2009-02-08T23:09:30Z")
The English press has had a field day is all I can say. Perhaps the days of Tests are numbered anyway, what with IPL and all. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/england-51-all-out/484933/12 "2009-02-09T12:33:50Z")
This sums it up nicely [QUOTE=[The Daily Mash](http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1563&Itemid=26)] ENGLAND BEACH TOUR INTERRUPTED BY CRICKET TEN UK tourists on a Carribbean beach holiday have had their trip thrown into disarray after being forced to play cricket matches. ‘I’m going to go and see if I can find the buffet’ Strauss tells his friendsTrip organiser Andrew Strauss has complained to travel firm ECB after being told to turn up and play a series of games that he and his friends are completely unprepared for. Strauss started badly, with his helmet on backwards and holding the bat upside down, before asking the umpire if you get free cocktails as part of the all-inclusive deal. He added: “I managed to hit a few of the balls until there was a big commotion and that man in the white overcoat asked me to leave.” ECB chief executive Denys Finch-Hatton said: "All a bit last minute to be honest. Suddenly remembered we owed the Windies a tourney, so I got this bunch of Johnnies to pop over, telling them it was a beano. “We stuck some pads on them, gave them a jolly old helmet and hoped for the best. What larks!” Strauss’s fellow holidaymaker Andrew Flintoff, from Preston, said: “Bloody 'ell. Ent had time to do ‘owt. By now I was hopin’ to 'ave peed off balcony, set fire t’half dozen pedaloes and spewed me tea in t’pool.” Meanwhile other group members are understood to be confused and upset after being forced to cancel a planned ganja-tasting and spend the afternoon having a really hard ball thrown in their direction at 90mph by an angry Jamaican gentleman who seems to have some sort of problem with them. [/QUOTE]