The mysterious ways of England’s chicken dance
The dictionary defines dance as an artistic form of nonverbal communication. But no one really knows what England’s weird chicken dance is trying to communicate.
There have been millions of weird dance moves in history. Look it up on YouTube and there will be millions and millions of stupid dances that had gone viral in seconds. There are babies shaking their small hips to Shakira’s wolf moves and then there are
married couples dancing their way to the aisle. Then there are some really nerdy moves like the very infamous robot dance that every nerdy guy does on prom night.
But a dance move in cricket seems absurd. Doing a chicken dance is absurd beyond infinity. The internet has gone wild seeing the chicken dance. It is receiving more hits than the Leaks and Julian Assange is pulling his hair out as he does not know how to
counter the dance. He is reportedly in talks with Paula Abdul to break into Obama’s Presidential house and leak a dance move. However, the dance moves have crossed boundaries as they were seen in the lurking discotheques of Dubai. Yes, even the Arabs love
them. The online cricket betting sources are claiming that the dance will threat to sweep the dance floors in a huge way.
The dance is commonly known as the “Sprinkler Dance” but actually it is a new form of the chicken dance. The dance was first unveiled by England’s very suave off-spinner Graeme Swann. He has been shooting a series of video diaries of the tour in the land
down under and the episodes are available on the ECB’s official website. The highlight of the diary was the sprinkler. The video was tagged as the best web video of the year 2010. Swann gave credit where it was due. He admitted on his Twitter page that he
did not invent the song; however he did say that he was the brains behind the moonwalk, the pogo and the robot dance. The dance is said to be introduced by the now retired Paul Collingwood and his team-mates adopted the dance while practicing it in their dressing
rooms.
So when Ricky Ponting got his hands on the video, he was amazed. Rather, awestruck by the English tactics. England were 1-0 in the Ashes and the pendulum was swinging above Ponting’s head. Ponting decided to practice the strange movement in front of the
Aussie’s dressing room mirrors. However, he could not nail it. Ponting got confused when Swann started flapping his hands and legs after the last wicket of the Australian innings, even though it was clear that the celebration routine was stupid enough as England
were slumping to a loss. But Ponting understood the reason. It was a way to confuse the Aussies. So Ponting performed the small ritual of the dance before the start of play. As a result, his team went into Perth and miraculously battered England.
Ponting was taken aback, even though his flailing back was aching by the short practice of the phenomena. Yet, Ponting could not deny the magic of the weird hands and legs movement. However, “The Punter” did not practice carefully and injured his pinkie
that ruled him out of the Ashes. It was heart wrenching to see Ponting staring blankly as he could not move his little finger to spin to the dance, so as to have the magical touch that his side desperately needed. Therefore, the cricket world saw England rejoicing
as they defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 in the fourth Ashes Test by an innings and 157 runs.
England retained the urn at the turf of Melbourne Cricket Ground and the team broke into their cult dance hit. The jubilant crowd joined in as Graeme Swann led the pack with their jig. The Aussies were shaking their head and were confused. They did not know
what they were doing. Even though the players were inspired by the garden sprinklers, the Aussies were outrightly confused. It seemed as if some chickens were flown into the pitch and were flapping their way into the sky. The Aussie media were confused as
well. Headlines read, “England dances on Australia’s Ashes grave.”
The Australian team were so confused that they flew into Sydney and were still bewildered. Traditionalists may shudder, but this is the reason why the Aussies are behaving so badly. Sprinkler dance is here to rule the world. Reports suggested that Simon
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cowell-c51632 is already in talks with Collingwood to appear as a judge in Britain’s next best Sprinkler dancer. Such is the phenomena of the chicken dance.
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