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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 22, 2020 8:58:04 GMT
A fun and clever tweet from the the club media. And don't forget to sing 'Happy Birthday' while watching it.
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Post by deepfineleg on Mar 22, 2020 10:04:20 GMT
Great. Now to work out how to watch it while washing hands without dropping my phone.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 22, 2020 11:55:34 GMT
Here is another one, but 140 seconds long. Ideal for families with 7 members, who can all watch the video whilst queuing to wash their hands in their one basin in the house and passing over the one bar of soap.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 22, 2020 12:47:49 GMT
No surprise. Jason stays in Australia with his family during the pandemic.
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Post by philh on Mar 22, 2020 16:40:22 GMT
Here is another one, but 140 seconds long. Ideal for families with 7 members, who can all watch the video whilst queuing to wash their hands in their one basin in the house and passing over the one bar of soap. The danger of this advice is that there will be a 4-second handover time between each hand wash which wastes 24 seconds plus you would need to factor in for one person dropping the soap which would waste a precious 11 seconds thus reducing the available time to 105 seconds which would, in turn, lead to unfinished rounds of happy birthday as well as inadequately washed hands as each person would only have 15 seconds. I suppose though it has the advantage of the person next in the queue being able to hold the phone so that it could be watched by the current handwasher without risk of phone damage. Of course, the person holding would have to pass it to the next in the queue which would waste a further.......continued page 94
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 23, 2020 10:52:45 GMT
A round-up by The Cricketer Magazine on how Sussex CCC are dealing with Covid-19 prompted by Jason Gillespie's decision to remain in Australia. The article concludes with a quote from Dizzy. "Our club Sussex have been amazing looking after all our players and staff. We cut short our pre-season trip to Cape Town and the club's absolute priority has always been staff and players that were home and away. Our club has strong leadership with Rob Andrew at the helm." www.thecricketer.com/Topics/news/sussex_coach_jason_gillespie_self_isolating_returning_australia.html
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 24, 2020 12:34:21 GMT
During these unprecedented times with no professional cricket being played anywhere in the world, what does the aficionado do? There is always Twitter where cricketing celebs presently use their accounts to offer us some ‘amusant’ titbits to lighten the lockdown measures. (see Ian Bell below). Others suggest blowing the dust off your 2005 Ashes 3 disc CD or any other favourite video cricketing moments for that matter. Perhaps, the more academic can head for their bookshelf, and return to books not read for ten years or more. John Wallace’s Sussex CCC 100 Greats, Christopher Lee’s From The Sea End, or Bruce Talbot/Paul Weaver’s Flight of the Martlets: The Golden Age of Sussex Cricket are good examples. In fact, a trivia question: How many books have been published about Sussex CCC and their players? I have no idea, but it must run into the many hundreds. In this present apocalyptic and dystopian reality where drones are being used to spy on coronavirus lawbreakers and enforce the lockdown, surely, is it not time to remember those past glorious summer days, the sound of ball on willow, the cry of ‘Howzat’ and a ripple of applause for a good shot? Yet, few cricket writers have an ability to magically reminisce this utopian world. Enter: Paul Edwards. A longstanding writer and freelancer for ESPNCricinfo, Edwards is a time-traveller from the days of Bradman and Barnes, Hobbs and Hammond. His writing has an elegance and flow, so missed amidst the present cacophony of keyboard warriors, social media slagging and meaningless texts. Below is a superb example, published this week. www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28941670/cricket-glorious-treasure-house-sustain-us-perilous-sWho today uses sorely missed words like ‘tarry’ and ‘lexis’, phrases ‘unspoilt love’ and ‘revelatory of character’ alongside classic sentences such as ‘The cricket fields of England remain the countries of my heart.’ This brings a tiptoe merriment to the heart, a frisson of joy to the soul, when Covid-19 was merely a futuristic imagining for science fiction writers like HG Wells and Jules Verne. Even Sussex CCC gains a magical moment in the feature. Drawing the analogy of today’s world in peril to WW2, Edwards mentions writer Alan Ross who spent most of the war in the Royal Navy, a time he describes in Blindfold Games, the first volume of his autobiography. In the sequel, writes Edwards , Coastwise Lights, he remembers how his beloved Sussex soothed him, even when he was thousands of miles away from the county. "During my sea-time I used to dream of Sussex; not so much a specific Sussex as a generalised, romantic image conjured out of memory and hope. Sussex cricket played a large part in it, to the extent that I had only to see the word Sussex written down, in whatever context, for a shiver to run down my spine.”And perhaps that is what we supporters should feel. In times of chaos we understand what matters the most. Family and friends, of course, come first, but when the virus is vanquished and life returns to normality, I, for one, will appreciate Sussex CCC and cricket even more.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 24, 2020 15:30:29 GMT
So long as humanity unites and we listen to our authorities asking us to social-distance, self-isolate, sing 'Happy Birthday' whilst washing our hands, only go outside for buying food and essentials, don't see friends, stay indoors unless taking exercise once a day... so long as common sense, rationality and discipline prevails... below is the new-look Sussex CCC Fixture list. It doesn't look that tardy and could be a lot worse.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 25, 2020 9:31:16 GMT
The lads at the Club media office are experiencing cabin fever as they've started playing games, but fun ones all the same and with us supporters in mind. The game is based on Top Trumps which originated in 1970. Did you know: The game was based around 'Quartets'; most Trump packs are based on vehicles; the Simpsons Horror Edition has the highest sales with 843,000 sold worldwide; and this has now been discontinued due to complaints from 'woke' parents. Below is the original Cricket Top Trumps from the 1970s. Tony Greig represents Sussex CCC. Wasn't the past great when toys and games were actually educational.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 25, 2020 9:57:56 GMT
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 25, 2020 12:17:37 GMT
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Post by philh on Mar 25, 2020 15:03:10 GMT
Of course, you’ve missed my own invention, Spin-a-cricket which I played incessantly as a youngster. It was a more advanced form of Owzthat, which I recall playing with one of my friends. Suffice to say, my Spin-a-cricket reflected the real game of cricket in terms of scores, runs per over, types of dismissal far more accurately than Owzthat. For the curious and those who missed out on Spin-a-cricket, the board was a circular piece of cardboard with a drawing pin in the middle with a spinning arrow on the pin. The outer circle was divided into about 40 uneven segments which represented dot ball, quick single, one bounce four etc. Some of the segments had ‘howzat’ (not Owzthat, you should note) which meant you spun again to get the umpire’s decision which, of course, included not out. Indeed, if I had had the foresight to add a third umpire and reviews, I could have been ahead of my time. For the statisticians amongst you and for those who want to make judgements about me as a child, I can tell you that David Pithey of Northants and South Africa scored the highest individual score in Spin-a-cricket with 167. This is curiously one more run than his personal best in real life. Now, how can I fill these hours of lockdown? I know. Spin-a-cricket.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 25, 2020 15:29:21 GMT
philh, A lovely response. I hold happy memories of playing 'Owzthat'. My brother and I would choose a team each eg. England and Australia, decide on the players involved, and then spend hours playing the game employing proper scoring sheets et al.. It is amazing how such a simple game brought so much pleasure. We did have a large Subbuteo cricket set too, but it seemed so complex and fiddly compared to 'Owzthat', which you could place in your pocket and take away on family holidays. Even better, the game required little space to play it. I remember on an overnight train trip to Scotland (Perth), much fun was had on a small table top. Not surprisingly, it has become a very collectable set today. The original version with its box can sell for up to £50 depending on the condition. The second variation is not as good and comes with plastic dice and additional counters. 'Owzthat' - second version
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Mar 25, 2020 15:44:42 GMT
Sometimes you should be a little careful over the leading sentence. If we didn't know young Jof better one might think he'd recently attended The Priory.
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Post by deepfineleg on Mar 25, 2020 17:46:12 GMT
We did have a large Subbuteo cricket set too, but it seemed so complex and fiddly compared to 'Owzthat', which you could place in your pocket and take away on family holidays. Even better, the game required little space to play it. I remember on an overnight train trip to Scotland (Perth), much fun was had on a small table top. I was going to comment similarly on Subbuteo Cricket. I think the only Subbuteo game that worked was football, as it was simple. We had a rugby one too.
At school we played owzat with dice or if necessary a hexagonal pencil with the numbers written on.
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