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May I introduce you to: Cricket

Like a more sedate baseball but slower and longer



Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days.

This is also the best sport to show in an office, because people don't watch anything but the wickets. I used to work on a trading floor where they showed it all day on a screen, no problem.


> Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days.

Not sure you’d wear that in NZ or Australia during the summer. Or maybe the purists would, strange game.


The sport is not my cup of tea but I recently listened to a (sadly paywalled) episode of the TrashFuture podcast which gave me a newfound respect for Cricket. There's a ~10 minute preview of it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainolog...

Oh speaking of tea, a thing non-Cricket-knowers might enjoy is that a cricket match will traditionally stop for "tea" during the game. Players will go into a pavilion, have some cakes and sandwiches then resume play a little later.




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