During my visit to South Africa, I was lucky enough to be introduced to cricket. While we were on holiday and the guys were playing golf, I stayed behind and watched the cricket world cup that was going on at the time. I learn a lot of the rules and the game itself from Clinton’s family (and Jodi!) and even go to the point where I knew who “Shane Warne”, “Hansie Cronje” and “Shaun Pollock” were.

In any case, why am I saying all of this? Well, had it not been for that trip and the opportunity to experince cricket first hand (where Clinton almost broke my ribs!!) I would not know how to play the game. To help the rest of the world intersted in learning the game with a different spin to it, I found this article. If nothing else, it does make for a good laugh.

The area where the table is, where the pie-eaters sit, is called “the pitch.” At either end of the pitch is a line marking “the crease.” Now, let’s say that inside one of these creases, your pies are cooling on top of three sticks, which are called “stumps.” This contraption is called a “wicket” and there’s a man attempting to knock the wicket over by throwing a ball at it.

If this article does not make cricket as easy as 1,2, 3 I am not sure that cricket will be part of you :o) Also, over the weekend, Clinton realized that my licence plates are ###-LBW (leg before wicket) — only Clinton would come up with that!