# Hitting it out of the park in the sport of cricket **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676 "2007-09-18T23:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/21 "2007-09-20T12:10:25Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] The said thing is that there are people today who are only happy when they have something to whinge about. [/QUOTE] I read in a local paper about a couple who moved to the countryside then complained about mooing cows waking them up in the morning. When that happens to me I nip over the hedge and calm them down with duct tape. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/22 "2007-09-20T12:11:49Z")
The cows that is, not the couple complaining about them. ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/23 "2007-09-20T12:18:07Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] I read in a local paper about a couple who moved to the countryside then complained about mooing cows waking them up in the morning. When that happens to me I nip over the hedge and calm them down with duct tape. [/QUOTE] Ah-HA! So you freely admit that you are “The Phantom Cow Taper” that’s been terrorising the bovine inhabitants of these fair isles? The prosecution rests m’lud. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/24 "2007-09-20T12:42:31Z")
Vaguely apropos of this thread, Yuvraj Singh hit [six sixes off one over](http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/content/current/story/311653.html) yesterday against England - only the fourth time it’s ever happened in first-class cricket. (If you can call Twenty20 “first class” that is. 😉 ) He reached 50 in 12 balls. Amazingly, it’s only two weeks since Yuvraj’s own bowling was hit for five sixes off one over, also against England. Payback indeed… ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/25 "2007-09-20T12:45:50Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Now if I lived near to mould trafford I’d moan about the noise… 😛 but that would be justified [/QUOTE] That’s strange, I never had a problem with noise when I lived on Platt Lane 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676/26 "2007-09-20T12:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_ **chowder** : > I’m not a cricket fan but I dearly hope the miserable fuckers who succeeded in having Lintz cricket team more or less disbanded are happy To be fair they didn’t actually succeed - Lintz Cricket Club appears to be still going. Don’t know if it is at the same ground! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitting-it-out-of-the-park-in-the-sport-of-cricket/419676.md?page=1)