please empty your brain below
The only use for women at a cricket match (I'm talking village green stuff here) is to make the teas and wash up afterwards.
A long time ago I went out with someone who played cricket. I was encouraged to go along and watch. No sooner had I sat down on my beach towel and put on my sunglasses, ready for a quiet snooze, than I was whisked off to make sandwiches and cut up cakes.
I deliberately put too much mayonnaise in the egg so that it oozed out everywhere when the cricketers bit into the sandwiches, all over those lovely cricket whites. Needless to say, I wasn't asked again. Result then
But, did you hear about the Irish cricket match? It was cancelled because both teams turned up wearing the same colors...
There's nothing to beat the gradual ebb and flow of a Test, though. It's enjoyable precisely because it's the complete opposite of a thrill-a-minute sport. It's all about a shared appreciation of what's going on. I think that's why most people's idea of cricket is actually listening to Test Match Special. I know people who avidly listen to it who've never even seen cricket being played.
I was lucky enough to go to a Test match last year, and a great deal of the pleasure came from being able to sit and chat to people about the game, coupled with a sense that this day would be factored into the great monolith of memory that is created out of Wisden, TMS and so on. It's a very nostalgic game.
Cricket - the sport you can go to work during without missing anything important.
Cricket - yet another sport we invented that the rest of the world regularly thrashes us at.
Baseball - the only sport where the World Series involves only two countries.
Ace team names DG (lol)
C'mon - What other sport is there in the world where you can stop for Lunch and then Tea? And where a Pakistani, a West Indian and an Englishman can unite in a common hatred of the Aussies?
Besides, how many cricketers have you seen wearing Alice bands?
It's not boring. You just need to understand what is happening.
Now real life. That's boring.
Sale Sharks my arse.
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