I am new to the boards and i don't know much about cricket (compared to pretty much all of you!)

So to get me started with cricket knowledge, i want you to post in reply a fun and random fact about cricket.

Thankyou

Jules

Cricket is a bat and ball game.

Complete with stumps and bails/bales (You know i mean!)

"bails". Apparently people have been killed by cricket balls but I don't know how many.

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Frank Skinner: "You know when Glenn McGrath trod on that cricket ball? Don't you wish it would've been a landmine?"

11 players per side.

An interesting Cricket stat about me. My first ever game for an under 13 side produced the following quirk, Opening the Batting I was dismissed First ball for a duck in my first ever innings (It kept low I kept telling everyone!). Then when it was our turn to field I was brought on first change and took a wicket with my first ball ever bowled. Ok it will never be found in any Wisden but it is an interesting debut and I hope an interesting little tale.

Well, at least it is now the ICC ditched the stupid "Supersub" rule in one-dayers.

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"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose."
- Ayrton Senna

Here's an interesting fact: Andrew Flintoff, playing for England against the West Indies, was nearly caught out by his dad! (you'll have to find the rest out for yourself!)

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Frank Skinner: "You know when Glenn McGrath trod on that cricket ball? Don't you wish it would've been a landmine?"

What you said made more sense to me than the BBC article did...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funn...me/3939959.stm

Well,in international cricket a Bangladeshi cricketer was killed at short leg.I seem to have forgotten his name

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Karthik Venkatesan