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Thread #61407   Message #987977
Posted By: Teribus
22-Jul-03 - 06:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone for cricket?
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone for cricket?
Most complete game ever devised by man.

With regard to Test Matches it calls on the greatest variety of skills from agronomy, through meteorology to athleticism in terms of endurance and stamina, excellent hand-eye co-ordination and the required turn of speed of an olympic sprinter.

Tests are incredibly difficult to win - the number of ways in which a match that appears to be a foregone conclusion can be played to a draw is astounding.