MEANWHILE IN SPORTS

Cricket wicket badly damaged by teens in underwear

(Thanks to Unholy Slacker)

Comments

[nursecindy]

How dare they! What were they thinking by damaging a perfectly good cricket wicket. String 'em up! btw, what exactly is a cricket wicket?

[Meanie the Blue]

That's taking "Leg before wicket" a bit too far.

[Omniskeptic]

That story just got more surreal with each paragraph.

[Tim]

Playing soccer on a cricket pitch could possibly synthesize a game so boring that the universe could come to an end. Maybe the teens were Mayans?

[padraig]

No, this is SERIOUS. After they're done with all the cricket wickets, they'll come after the soccer lockers! Then the hockey jockeys! Then the... wait, does hockey have jockeys?

[Omniskeptic]

Sure. How do you think they avoid injuries to their ...

Oh, you said "jockeys." Never mind.

[Elon]

Well this is a bit of a sticky wicket, in't it?

You know, because they were in underwear...

[HogsAteMySister]

Cricket is normally more boring than baseball mixed with watching paint dry.

[MikeyVA]

Wait, it takes 3 weeks to replace 3 uprights and two cross pieces?

[Allen at Division]

"Sticky wicket" is from croquet, not criquet. As a dwarf notes in The Hobbit movie, croquet is a great game "if you've got the balls for it."

[Elon]

Sticky wicket is most certainly from cricket. It describes the condition when the pitch is wet, so it is hard to discern how the ball will bounce.

[RochPete]

At MikeyVA

Apparently the replacement parts are being made by the same people who brought us Stonehenge.

[Allen at Division]

Elon, but then I couldn't have typed "criquet"!

[Ralph]

Teens in Underwear WBAGNFARB.