Danged white font won't work if you spell out colour!
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Zoe Finch - Feb 20, 2003 3:14:37 am PST #2093 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
evil jimi - Feb 20, 2003 5:41:56 am PST #2094 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Okay, if cricket has white blazers, too, then what are the striped blazers for?
The blazers aren't white, only the on-field uniform and then only during the traditional test-matches. Non test-match games are played in uniforms designed to represent the country's colours. The image you linked to is a shot from the World Cup, currently being played in various African countries.
Betsy ... hate to rub salt in the wound but the multi-coloured uniforms have been in use since the late 70s. However, it should also be noted that amateur cricket is still played in white uniforms. If you were to travel through England or Australia during summer, you'd see lots of cricket being played in "whites".
Oh and ... Canada Canada Canada. All out for 36!
evil jimi - Feb 20, 2003 5:43:54 am PST #2095 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Zoe ... just remember to use the "bloody colonials" form of spelling. colour = color when doing HTML.
Jim - Feb 20, 2003 6:35:55 am PST #2096 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Okay, if cricket has white blazers, too, then what are the striped blazers for?
They're for summer casual wear - striped blazer, straw boater, beige trousers and brown shoes. Or a cricket sweater (v necked cream with college coloured edges) casually draped across the shoulders.
Angus G - Feb 20, 2003 6:38:25 am PST #2097 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Is that your usual getup as you take your morning constitutional on the village green, Jim?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 20, 2003 6:40:27 am PST #2098 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
That's a wonderful image. Especially since I know people who would be surprised you had to ask that kind of question.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2003 7:31:25 am PST #2099 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I *love* cricket sweaters. I have one that's older than some of the posters here, terribly misshapen, but it's like a blankie.
edit: I thought I had a pic of it, but instead I found a pic of my dad, chilling cricket-like.
Jim - Feb 20, 2003 7:39:14 am PST #2100 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Is that your usual getup as you take your morning constitutional on the village green, Jim?
No, but when Alyosius and I go punting, I usually go for bags and a jumper. One of the advantages of living in Oxford, don't you know.
evil jimi - Feb 20, 2003 8:05:29 am PST #2101 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
That is so gay.
Zoe Finch - Feb 20, 2003 8:09:26 am PST #2102 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
No, but when Alyosius and I go punting, I usually go for bags and a jumper. One of the advantages of living in Oxford, don't you know.
That is so gay.
In the true sense of the wrod.