Ahh...Summer is nearly here....you can almost hear the sound of leather on willow on some sleepy English green.
What the hell am I talking about?
Well Cricket, that English of all games. The leather is the hard ball (supposed to be made of leather but I doubt if they are these days) and Willow is the wood the bats are made from.
The only game in the World you can play for five days and still draw, yes FIVE days. The only game in the World where, not matter how exciting the game is, you stop for Tea!!
A lot of people don't understand how Cricket works, and that includes a lot of Brits, so here is a quick guide.
You have two teams of eleven. Each team bats twice, usually alternatively. The team that is not batting bowls at the batting team.
The batting team has two batters 'in', one facing the bowler, and one batter not facing the bowler. The facing batsmen will try and hit the ball from the bowler as far away as possible, and run 22yards to the bowlers end to score a run.
The facing batsmen protects three sticks of wood behind him (the wicket)-if the bowler is able to knock over any one of those sticks the batsmen is 'out', and is replaced by the next batsmen waiting to come in.
When all the batsmen are out from the batting team, it's time for the bowling team to have a go at batting, so the old bowling team are now the batting team and the old batting team now has a go at bowling.
When all the batsmen are out that is called an 'innings'.
The team with the most runs at the end of two innings wins the game.
If two innings are not completed in the time allowed (five days for an international test match) the match is drawn - see? -easy!!
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