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rusty

27th April 2015, 19:25
I hazard a guess at chinaman being a ball bowled in a certain way.
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elle

27th April 2015, 19:34
Thank you all......

Rusty,thank you, I get 'chin a man' now (I've looked up 'chin' in Chambers and see it can be a verb = to hit)
but I don't understand the other answer? Can you explain, please?

Marty, thanks but you obviously don't understand me and football...you could be speaking a foreign language!

Chris, don't disturb the cat!
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bigbadmarty2

27th April 2015, 19:35
Yes sorry it is a delivery in cricket, which is not always easy to understand but briefly-

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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elle

27th April 2015, 19:40
Marty, an expertly delivered explanation! (sorry, couldn't help the pun)
A very clever one , too!
I think I'll stick to tennis!
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elle

27th April 2015, 19:43
Sorry, typo, in post 12, football should obviously have read cricket!
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rusty

27th April 2015, 19:46
One-two, as Chris said a football term.
A couple of rounds = 2 O's
Score = net
With = w
Giving O net w O
One-two.
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jazzgirl

27th April 2015, 19:48
BBM
I have your cricket explanation on a Tea Towel given to me by my husband in case I asked any questions. His sense of humour:)
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elle

27th April 2015, 19:55
And I thought it was an 'original'!
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elle

27th April 2015, 19:57
Rusty, thank you, 'one-two' very explicitly explained - even I understand it now!
Two sports clues interlocking though - football and cricket - most unfair - what chance did I have?!


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bigbadmarty2

27th April 2015, 20:00
I learnt it from my uncle who had it on a tea towel :)
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