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underthewillows ([personal profile] underthewillows) wrote 2013-05-12 05:18 pm (UTC)

I have a brother who does follow the cricket, but in spite of his best efforts, I cannot for the life of me understand the scoring or how they figure out who has won. What in tarnation does a score like "ZIM 134/9 BAN 168/7 (Bangladesh won by 20.0 Overs)" mean? How do they subtract one from the other, if that's what they do?

I certainly don't mean to be rude about Americans, it was simply that I had read one too many stories in which a cast of Americans in an American setting speaking American and doing American things had the labels "Sherlock", "John", "Lestrade", etc. slapped on them.

I am now mired once again in Tolkien fandom, having succumbed to "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" despite swearing blind the last time that I would not be lured in by Peter Jackson's wiles any more. Despite the changes he has made, and despite some silliness in choices, I did enjoy the first film and am anticipating the second (I am dying to see Smaug close-up, but are they really going to make him blue instead of red-gold, or is that just because Smaug has been hibernating for sixty years and needs to warm back up?)


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