Cricket is weird

Just looking at the front page of cricinfo right now, and if you were some American who happened to stumble accross this site, and you saw the headline, "death bowling worries Ponting", what would you think?

I'd think that Ponting was worried about his selection of bowling options toward the end of a One-Day International innings.

Oooh, I don't know Trev. That some black guy was going to shoot him?

Might think death bowling was a new breed of dog.

Yep, that's it.....

"Ponting worried about death bowling - what a bad three days for black people"

"One" might be inclined to observe at this juncture:

"... but apparently not as weird as its followers".

Henry wrote:Just looking at the front page of cricinfo right now, and if you were some American who happened to stumble accross this site, and you saw the headline, "death bowling worries Ponting", what would you think?

If I was American, I wouldn't be able to read.

DJ_Smerk wrote:I'd think that Ponting was worried about his selection of bowling options toward the end of a One-Day International innings.

I wasn't aware that you were American.

vilkrang wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:I'd think that Ponting was worried about his selection of bowling options toward the end of a One-Day International innings.

I wasn't aware that you were American.

Welsh-American?

It would explain a few things.

Yankee Doodle Taffy!!

Poor Smerky. Picked on just because he's Welsh!