{"id":212,"date":"2009-03-13T02:55:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T08:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=212"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:46:06","slug":"rockstars-of-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Rockstars of Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I left for New Zealand a few grad students working for the ITS Help Desk (where I am the supervisor) kept telling me that I needed to go and see the India v. New Zealand matches because India (their home country and their favourite team) was touring New Zealand in March. I said I would think about it.<\/p>\n

So we are in New Zealand and one of the main sports played is Cricket. We had to go see a match right? Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher reminded his class that there was the match here in Christchurch on the weekend and it would be fun. I was also primed from the talking to from my student employees – so we were off to the match.<\/p>\n

But we had no idea how cricket was played, so after a quick google, we had the answer – the long answer: http:\/\/www.cs.purdue.edu\/homes\/hosking\/cricket\/explanation.htm<\/a> We figured we could also ask someone around us in the stands if we needed to figure anything out…<\/p>\n

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The day was a nice warm sunny day after a few days of rain, thank goodness. Jack, Will, Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uncle John, and I headed out for the afternoon match. <\/p>\n

After watching the first 25 overs (you will have to read the rules, I am not going to explain it…) we started wondering just how long would this match be anyway. It had already been 2 hours and Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher said it should be only 4 hours… So we asked a nice Kiwi behind us and he informed us that the 50-50 match, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One Day International\u00e2\u20ac\u009d could go until 9 or 10 PM! Whoops. Apparently Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher thought it would be the much shorter 20-20 match.<\/p>\n

We stayed until New Zealand was up batting, around 7 pm, they had a really large target to hit, as India was hitting extremely well. For all those cricket fans – the \u00e2\u20ac\u01536\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs were held up a lot. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

All, in all we and fun. The boys got some helmets, we had lots of fries and I had a few beer. A good day.<\/p>\n

Here are some pics of the match.<\/p>\n

Later,
\nJonathan<\/p>\n

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Jack, John and Will<\/p>\n

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The pitch with view of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153party stands\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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C\u00e2\u20ac\u2122est moi. <\/p>\n

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Future cricket players?<\/p>\n

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After the first 50 Blackcaps are up to bat.<\/p>\n

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See that target. A big number for the Blackcaps to hit. They came close, though and only lost by 50 runs. Rock on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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