<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=290221.msg14264299#msg14264299">Quote from: Steffy on July 10, 2018, 08:11:29 am</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">“I have to say I was just bowled over by Courtney’s Spell book.  Magicians, do not neglect careful review and suggestions of additions or other things.”   <br/><br/>Courtney, I award thee:<br/><br/>(http://i64.tinypic.com/2mzcw2u.jpg)<br/><br/>Next, I hear rumblings from outside.  Magically, as I look out, they’re playing cricket (I don’t think it’s the other English sport, soccer—err, football).<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i63.tinypic.com/28qxhqa.jpg)</div><br/><strong>“Hey mates, that ‘bowl over’ thing.  Getting bowled over doesn’t always mean something cool.  It’ll be a dark day for us cricketers if we get bowled over.  How about some magical potion for your neighbors?”</strong> <br/><br/>I look at the magicians, “I think that’s Jack.  I’ll call him Cracker Jack.  Anyways, bowled over is exactly what I was when I saw the book.  Now I hope Ames and Flower and the rest are familiar with Cracker Jacks.”  (Smile at my clever weaving of s’more conversation on to Cracker Jacks). <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Surely, Steffy, whether or not bowling over is a good thing must depend on your point of view. The batsman might not want to see the wicket go flying when it's bowled over, but the bowler would!<br/><br/>There is also an expression of bowling a maiden over. I know this will conjure up images (Steffy?) but an over is the sequence of six balls which a bowler bowls before another bowler bowls another six balls from the other end of the wicket. If the batsman, or batsmen, fail to score a run from those six balls, then that is a maiden over.<br/><br/>Edited - I have just thought that could be confusing. A wicket can be both the set of sticks which the batsman tries to defend with his bat, but it's also the area between the two sets of sticks at either end of the, er, wicket. Clear, I hope?<br/>