Zen Sports: Cricket

[Heiso]

Thanks, Kotei. Yes, YuppTV is well-known, but I am looking for non-IPL type, regular, Cricket content. IPL is a bit too corporate and hyped-up for me. Sorry, old school Cricket fan here [emoji23]. (But perhaps I should work on being neutral on corporate/non-corporate thing as part of my practice).

Thanks also to Kokuu for the radio idea. Most BBC Tv content is blocked in Germany, but radio is still accessible (at least some channels). Let me try that option.

Gassho.

Sat.

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Test Match Special on BBC radio is the best. Lots of people watch the tv with the sound off and listen to TMS instead. Lots of talk about cakes and passing busses.

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

[Heiso]

I listened to 5 minutes of Guerilla Cricket, no idea what they are saying. "3 Declared, bought off with 58, defending the test pattern for a century?"

Is it English?

Gassho, J

STLah

I have the same reaction whenever I hear people talking about baseball. I recognise most of the words but not the order they are spoken in.

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

[bayamo]

Oz x Sri Lanka ODI about to get underway...
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[bayamo]

My bad, it's a T20...
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[bayamo]

Aussies take it with 10 wickets (and 36 balls remaining)
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[bayamo]

South Africa beat India, 7 wickets and 5 balls remaining...
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[Kokuu]

Well, that was a bit of a test match at Trent Bridge, culminating nicely in a fifth day win for England!

I missed the denouement as I was leading the Ryaku Fusatsu ceremony but I had faith that Johnny Bairstow would keep the runs flowing!

Gassho
Kokuu
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[bayamo]

Well, that was a bit of a test match at Trent Bridge, culminating nicely in a fifth day win for England!

I missed the denouement as I was leading the Ryaku Fusatsu ceremony but I had faith that Johnny Bairstow would keep the runs flowing!

Gassho
Kokuu
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Yah, nice win there. I thought it would be a draw. T20 now...
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[bayamo]

Pathetic performance by Proteas today
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[bayamo]

Stumps, India 338/7 v England...
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[Jundo]

Since it looks like this thread will never end and goes on and on (like an actual cricket match ... ) I am going to take the liberty of migrating it to our "Zen Arts and Sports" section so that it is easier to find (much easier than it is to understand the rules of cricket! ) ...

Now, the sports in our "Zen Arts and Sports" section are supposed to have some Zen connection and attitude involved ... such as martial arts, or goalless running and such. So, please try to find that in every match or ball or strike or century (or whatever it is.) For cricket, I think this will be easy, for it seems rather mysterious and impossible to fathom, with strange language, like a Koan. People run around but back and forth with lots of stillness in between, and I cannot find the goal (or home base or whatever). It goes on for long age, for many Kalpa (though purported to be neither eternal nor meaningless), with a bunch of guys in strange clothing moving back and forth in small spaces, like a Zen chanting ceremony. Mostly, others just sit and stare. There are two teams of individual players but one field (a lesson in non-dualism), and some bowling pins set up like an Altar. Once it is "over" it starts again, etc. The scors at the previous "over" is Karma which is a kind of score that can be amended by the next "over," a lifetime later.

Something like that (frankly, I have no idea).

Gassho, J

STLah

[Kokuu]

I guess there is always this book! https://www.sportspages.com/media/img_591da58407aa3.jpg

Incidentally, England are playing the Buddha's home country today, India. India stand on 416 for their first innings. James Anderson claimed a five-fer for the 23nd time in his career.

Gassho
Kokuu
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[bayamo]

Since it looks like this thread will never end and goes on and on (like an actual cricket match ... [emoji14] ) I am going to take the liberty of migrating it to our "Zen Arts and Sports" section so that it is easier to find (much easier than it is to understand the rules of cricket! ) ...

Now, the sports in our "Zen Arts and Sports" section are supposed to have some Zen connection and attitude involved ... such as martial arts, or goalless running and such. So, please try to find that in every match or ball or strike or century (or whatever it is.) ...

Gassho, J

STLah

Doesn't everything have a "zen connection", in a manner of speaking... it is what it is...
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[Jundo]

Doesn't everything have a "zen connection", in a manner of speaking... it is what it is...
#sattoday

Zen is everything, but not everything is Zen. (A Koan)

Cricket is everything, but not everything is cricket?

Gassho, J

STLah

[bayamo]

There's more to life than just "zen". Sometimes it's fun to just watch a cricket match or a hockey game or an F1 race or a chess match and not worry about "oh noes, am I being zen right now?!"..

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