Creepy Cricket Fans

Cricket is traditionally a gentleman's sport. However, these 2011 World Cup fans caught on camera at two different matches, appear to have come across as rather unusual gentleman.

The Sri Lankan supporter, firstly pictured, wearing some weird voodoo-type face mask, was filmed in the crowd, poking his tongue towards a (thankfully)fake baby.

The second picture is of a fan who attended the Bangladesh vs West Indies match, who walked into camera view, and then just stood there, staring coldy straight at the camera, sporadically twitching his face and not smiling at all. He looked so scary. The commentators said the Bangladeshi fans were smiling despite their team losing the match. He certainly wasn't. He would be a good casting option for another movie of The Omen, after all, he looks convincingly evil.

Here's a couple of links to the respective video footage.

http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/03/23/creepy-cricket-fan-performs-voodoo-on-baby-video/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkcJ2Qv3Nwc

Scary indeed.

The Rules of Cricket Explained

The rules of cricket explained No. 1:

The pie metaphor.

Right. So the guy from the other team is called a "bowler" and he's trying to knock your pies down before you can eat them. He throws with an overhand motion, releasing the ball before he steps into the crease, usually bouncing the ball on the ground to make it harder for the pie-eater to pick up. To protect your pies, you have a bat, and when he throws the ball, you swing the bat and try to swat the ball away. If you hit it, you and the other pie-eater switch places and then you can eat one of his pies.

The rules of cricket explained No. 2:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's 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 are 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 been 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.

It's a crazy world in sport out there

It seems that even with all the mud slinging going down these last few days between the Australian and Indian Cricket teams (allegations of cheating, low quality umpiring and racism ... is calling someone a monkey racist?), other games can still hit the dirt as well. Two Russian ice hockey teams had one of the dirtiest, most violent games in history recently. The winning team scored 7 goals which is miracle considering there wouldn't have been much time to play actual ice hockey as such. Ice hockey seems to be more brutal than that operatic stunt show they call World Wrestling and even more dangerous than good old rugby. Speaking of rugger, I was surprised to see South Africa's most successful provincial coach miss out on being appointed Springbok Coach. The previous national coach has gone, despite his World Cup achievement. Being "P.C." or satisfying that emotional tsunami that occasionally sweeps through sporting officialdom seems to be more important than long term planning or common sense.