Incidentally, despite often being lampooned as “so English”, Tea break is actually an Australian innovation and was initially reated with derision in England when the Aussies imported it there. As can be seen in the pictures in the link, the Poms are surely trolling the Aussies by bringing Tea Ladies onto the pitch.:eek:
True dat.
Time for a sad story from mayhaps a decade hence. The village team I appeared for in Kent (I was bloody awful FWIW) had a long-standing rivalry with a neigbouring village. Traditionally the food was provided by the home team, which in this match was ours. One day before a match at our ground, we had some problem getting food there (I cannot recall why now), so the day of the match the opposition skipper calls us upo and says they’d be happy to provide the food, if we accepted a late addition to their squad, a client of his wife’s, an Indian gentleman in his early 60’s. He told us his name was Sunny.
:eek:
:smack:
At least the food was excellent. 
To expand further on my esteemed colleagues’ excellent answers:
Possibly - or he may decide even attempting one run is too risky, and just stand his ground, so he cannot be ‘run out’. This way he scores no runs, but waits for an opportunity next time.
Yes - the members of the other team, all 11 of whom are fielding.
As mentioned, anyone can hit the stumps by any method, but throwing the ball back is the most common way - usually to the wicketkeeper rather than the bowler, since the latter can catch a hard throw more easily by virtue of his gloves.
If there were no wicketkeeper, when the bowler bowled the ball and the batsman missed it (or just hit it very slightly with the edge of the bat), the ball would simply carry on, probably to the boundary behind the batsman (which would score 4 runs). So the main job of the wicketkeeper is as a backstop to prevent this happening. As mentioned, he can also get the batsman out in a couple of ways.
wait, what…was it who is think it is?
sob yup.
We should have known. :mad:
Please tell me you got his wicket.
I am just picturing your faces as he walks out!
I went to a footie thread and a cricket match broke out. 
Well, India hammered England in the T20 this evening, so the attention might get back to the football…
Cricket’s taking over every thread. Nothing is safe!
How do you think we built an empire?
Games with smaller teams do exist, but they’re mainly played as children’s leagues and in smaller fields. Google doesn’t know how to translate futbito (thinks it’s Basque) and translates fútbol sala as indoor football.
And I want to know who the fuck are Novelty and AK talking about 
I’m assuming it’s Sunil Gavaskar - a cricketing deity.
One googly at a time?
I don’t doubt there’s a richly-layered strategy at work comparable in complexity and sublimity to Waterloo, but damned if I can stay focused enough to see it.
And I’m sure AK wasn’t really upset about it. Imagine playing on the same pitch as a legend. Interestingly, I’ve actually met the man as well. The Indian cricket team played an exhibition game at my local park, some time in the early 80’s. I met him, plus Kapil Dev and the whole team. I had just started playing little league baseball, and remember being upset that the batsmen didn’t run full speed between the wickets, like our coach forced us to do at all times on the bases.
Soccer is so boring that even its would-be supporters would prefer to discuss a completely different game.
Yo! Me too. Could not care less. Of course, I don’t care for sports in general, elephant polo excepted.
The wife’s cousin once asked me why soccer, or “football,” was not popular in the US. I told her because it was a girly game. You KICK the ball and run, run, run, WHEE! Then KICK the ball and run, run, run, WHEE! I told someone else it was because the sports schedule was already full, what with baseball, basketball, American football and to some extent golf and hockey taking up everyone’s time.
Yes, even presenters on a soccer show (all of whom played soccer).
Ditto a great player of soccer, he’drather play another sport.
Sorry Nava, wasn’t trying to totally derail it to cricket but yes, As the Baron says it appears that a village cricket team introduced what is known as a “ringer”. Someone a little better than one would expect.
On this occasion is seems to have been Sunil Gavaskar. A retired Sunil Gavaskar sure…but still bloody Sunil Gavaskar.
To put him into international perspective we are talking about a retired Roger Federer Or Rafael Nadal dropping by your local court for a knock-about.