Personally, I hated cricket. I had to play it for my school every summer. It was sooooo slow and boring and we even had to wear these thick knitted white cricket sweaters over our white buttoned up shirts and white trousers and so on which made it that much hotter when the sun would sometimes blare down. But then again, it beat ’soccer’ which I hated even more! At least we could get outside on lazy summer afternoons. It also always seemed inane to me that someone way back when invented the rules about bowling with keeping one’s arm pretty straight and thereby weirdly contorting one’s body just to release the ball.

I can’t though figure out why people here have such a hard time understanding it–it’s no harder than American football with all it’s stops and starts. Really, when boiled down to the simple rules, it’s like football here–pretty basic.

I’d say the best thing about cricket is that from it we get the term “sticky wicket” which can come rther in handy on some occassions. Thre you go, that’s my bias.