Re: easy puzzle

by JGK Sat 14 Nov 2015, 13:29

IT could be two wide hit wickets and a wide stumped.

6 correct answers in total it seems.

by Lindsay no.2 Sat 14 Nov 2015, 13:44

JGK wrote:IT could be two wide hit wickets and a wide stumped.

6 correct answers in total it seems.

Imagine how bad the batsman is to get out hit wicket to an offside wide. Even the worst match fixer in the world might struggle to justify trying that on.

by PeterCS Sat 14 Nov 2015, 13:52

Would need to be pretty tall, I'd think. About Pietersen height. Big backward tread for the cut that never was.

by WideWally Sat 14 Nov 2015, 13:56

Lindsay no.2 wrote:
JGK wrote:IT could be two wide hit wickets and a wide stumped.

6 correct answers in total it seems.

Imagine how bad the batsman is to get out hit wicket to an offside wide. Even the worst match fixer in the world might struggle to justify trying that on.

I've seen a few closed-eye sloggers in the past who might have been a chance of doing that.

These were blokes who mainly played cricket to work up a thirst rather than achieve anything notable on the field.

by embee Sat 14 Nov 2015, 13:57

Cricketers are ****** who can get out in the most extraordinary ways

by PeterCS Sat 14 Nov 2015, 14:00

Such as getting gunned just cos they're ***ts?

by Bradman Mon 16 Nov 2015, 06:49

PeterCS wrote:Didn't catch it until solution was up!

(As I know from (occ arduous) experience, this is a dilemma for FB problem setters:

How long do you leave a quiz/puzzle/question up before providing a solution? Leave it long, and you yourself get tired of waiting, and/or you find one or two people impatiently prodding you for an answer. Don't hang around, give an answer sooner, and you feel you may have wasted your time that way too: one or two prods max, there wasn't that wide a response to make you sure the effort was merited! ~ ~

I suppose the answer is to keep questions/quizzes short and simple. Because what the setter apologises for as ridiculously easy, rarely appears that way to solvers (unless they are called Wally or Marty, if they are around). And at the very worst - zero response - you don't get the feeling of too much wasted effort.)

Don't know. But I miss you're your picture ones (even though I was lousy at them).

Gotta run, short and simple.

"I thought I'd already had my longest day".

When and where?

by embee Mon 16 Nov 2015, 11:22

Was that Eisenhower watching a Test in Pakistan?

by taipan Mon 16 Nov 2015, 11:55

embee wrote:Was that Eisenhower watching a Test in Pakistan?

Hanif was batting?

by Bradman Tue 17 Nov 2015, 02:23

by lardbucket Tue 17 Nov 2015, 05:18

Lindsay no.2 wrote:
Growler wrote:If I may presume to answer for the pieman LN2, he didn't specifically say they were all different - merely that they weren't all the same ...... a very subtle difference, my friend.

Blimey - that is a subtle difference. Too cute for me - I bet you guys are good at cryptic crosswords.

Anyway, to help me get a handle on it - would the 2 wide stumpings differ (or be not the same) as one could be an offside wide and the other a legside wide?

'not all dismissals were the same' vs 'every dismissal was different' doesn't seem that subtle a difference to me

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