Sunday, June 29, 2008
Cricket 101
It was our good fortune to attend a One-day International Cricket Match at the National Stadium in Grenada.
The match was between the first place standing Australian team and the West Indies team. (The Aussies would claim another win today)
Luckily we had our U.K. friend, Neal, along with us. He kindly explained wickets, bails, stumps, overs, extras, bowler, batsman, wicket keepers, 4s, 6s, "lbw"s, ducks, scoring and the game in general.
We found many similarities between cricket and baseball and thoroughly enjoyed the match.
When the play stopped for the lunch break the field filled with groups of local children who jumped right into their own games of cricket, complete with plastic wickets and all. We can only imagine their excitement at the opportunity to play in the National Stadium.
With interest, we watched the goats "maintaining the grounds" of the cemetery adjacent to the stadium.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment