A Manchester night bus would be all the training you'd need to survive such a thing.

The Stoke accent isn’t a million miles from my own, but i can appreciate how others would struggle with it. I’ve not always been understood when I've been to the US.... how must the Geordies cope?!?

You guys may know this, but in the UK a “trump” is a fart. Can you imagine Prime Minister Fart? I’m bamboozled as to how he’s successful, as an odious gas emitted from an anus is what i picture each time his name’s mentioned.

“The Magic of the FA Cup™”

Ha, what a sad little man.

Brit with minimal NFL experience here; is Big Ben the saddest looking man in the sport? He always looks like his goldfish has died.

My helmet has sustained a regular beating over the years.... I’ve suffered no ill effects beyond some minor sight loss and hair increase around the hands.

“Path-crossing in Supercross makes man super cross.”

I’ve quickly tried looking into this in more detail and whilst I’ve not found anything about the inactive batsman deliberately touching the ball (other than it’s illegal for the active batsmen to hit the ball twice), I did find this on the BBC. “C” helps us understand the final bit of yesterday’s video:

Are you based in the US? Do you have access to the equipment? If not, you can probably make a pretty good A-Team version. You just need something to stand up that can have something balanced on top to act as the wickets. You can make do with baseball bats (cricket bats have a flat base, so are very different but…

Until the electric couch becomes a thing, chairs will always hold a special place in life. Plus, the only friskiness that should be happening in a seated position happens on a couch of some sort. The only time that this paradigm is broken is car seats and bondage-related shenanigans, but the former probably involves a…

If he’s sat in his favourite chair, yet can hold his wife’s tit, where’s she sat? That sort of behaviour should surely be reserved for the couch. Is she stood up? What kind of chair IS his favourite chair?

No worries. :)

This should ideally be expained in a bar over a pint thinking about it, but I’ll try to cover the basics.

Having the bails knocked off the wicket isn’t the only way of being out though. You can be caught out (exactly like in baseball) on any ball that touches the bat and doesn’t bounce before a fielder catches it and something called LBW (leg before wicket), which is a “pitch” that hits the leg of the batsman and is…

It never ceases to amaze me that a cat can be that wary of people that they’ll hide under cars if one person comes near, yet one will happily wander onto a brightly lit field surrounded by 30,000 people.

There’s actually some good youth players in that team. I’ve seen Ojo a few times in youth games and he looks like he could follow the Sterling/Ibe trajectory. Teixeira has been unlucky with opportunities and Sinclair could soon be getting some minutes given Liverpool’s injury crisis at the moment.

You mean why can’t they just exchange the bat depending on whoever is going to receive the next bowl/delivery/pitch? I can’t 100% answer that, but it’s advantageous to be carrying your bat as it counts as an extension of you... a bit like if you were running to 3rd and had to slide to make, well these guys extend…

It is daft when you think about it, but I guess it’d be tough for a bowler to bowl if he had a helmet on. Unlike pitchers in baseball, bowlers do a run up (sometimes quite far if you’re a fastbowler). I don’t think it’s that common for bowlers to get hit, so it’s risk/reward.

I have the exact same issue but in reverse. My missus is trying to get me into baseball, but I have to frame all my questions and comments in cricket lingo.... it’s a recipe for disaster! Haha