Originally posted by RGlasel Obviously invented by the British, cricket is bar none the most bizarre game played on the planet. An Indian friend tried to teach me the game about 15 years ago, but I still don't get it, either.
Originally posted by MarkJerling If you go to a one day game, chances are, by the end of the day, you'll get it.
Yeah, I'm no big cricket fan (though I've been to several big matches), but it's no more bizarre than football (soccer for you folks in the US
), American football, baseball, basketball or any other major sport. The reason it might
seem weird to others is the regional relevance, popularity and, therefore, understanding of it (or lack thereof). Here in the UK, we're brought up with it. As a result, despite not being a big cricket fan, I completely understood what was going on at the first match I watched on TV, and the first I visited in person. By comparison, the first baseball game I saw for real in the US left me confused, but I was entertained by the overall spectacle of it. There were American kids in their very early teens who clearly understood it all perfectly. I just sat and waved my foam finger