Dear Brij, Bill, and Terry, Brett Lee, an Australian fast bowler, routinely bowls a cricket ball between 150 km/h and 160 km/h. Although it is many years since I played cricket, at these speeds, if I was batting, I would appreciate the extra 117 millimetres that Brij lost somewhere in the conversion.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2003-07-19 03.48, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brij Bushan Vij wrote: > This 100-link chain you refer is 66 feet or 22 yards, the distance between > *wickets between bails in CRICKET field*. This is really 20 metre. > > It's actually almost 12 cm longer than 20 m, so it's incorrect to say that a > distance of 22 yards is really 20 m. It's really 20.12 m (to the nearest > cm). > > However, if you were to say that, for all practical purposes, we could (and > should) set the length of a cricket pitch to a nice round 20 m, I'd agree > with that. > > This is totally academic for me, of course, as I've never been interested in > cricket. After a certain year in high school, we could choose between > cricket and tennis. I chose the latter. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >
