Cricket is Such a Weird Game
<p>Cricket is always a serene sport when viewed from a distance as a spectator, because all the action happens quite a long way at the pitch, a very neat and tidy rectangular strip of grass situated in the middle of an oval, a playing field which vastly exceeds the dimensions of a soccer or football field. The pitch is revered as the ‘holy land’ by the players and is protected at all costs from the rain gods by shrouding it with a cloth while the players retire for tea to contemplate the situation and wait for fair weather to return. After all, why muddy up the white uniforms? Back in the old days, they simply carried on and the batsmen would run back and forth in a bog known as the sticky wicket.</p>
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