2006-12-10 22:44:59 · 7 answers · asked by medea_is 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I believe it was started at the infamous ashes cricket tour of australia in 1932 where the english battered the aussies by aiming balls at there bodies to injure them rather than trying to get them out (termed Bodylining). This resulted in many injuries and the english game being brought into disrepute.
It simply wasn't cricket.
So the term is used now to describe someone not playing fair or in a sporting fashion.
2006-12-10 22:51:28 · answer #1 · answered by Sir Digby Chicken Bhuna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The game of cricket
2006-12-11 06:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it's because cricket was originally a very formal game played by English gentlemen, and therefore implies adherence to a kind of gentlemanly moral code.
If you're not playing by the rules, not acting properly, well, it's just not cricket, is it?
2006-12-11 06:53:00 · answer #3 · answered by RoyF 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The upper crust.
2006-12-14 14:07:28 · answer #4 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
austin powers is the only person I have ever heard say that so I gues it was Mike Myers's weird brain.
2006-12-11 06:57:58 · answer #5 · answered by Smoochy Poochy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i duno im in ict at school e-mail me chiarasmth@yahoo.co.uk
2006-12-11 06:47:24 · answer #6 · answered by Chiara s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
was it from somebody that was watching football?
;-)
2006-12-11 06:47:00 · answer #7 · answered by max 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋