Finally I have come to learn about the amazing sport anomaly that is Cricket. Cricket is huge in countries like England and several nations in the Middle East, but it’s something that people generally scoff at in America. Normally, when one thinks of cricket, they think of whacking a ball through a little gate in the ground with a mallet-type instrument, but thanks to the book “In a Sunburned Country” by Bill Bryson (a book about traveling through Australia and a great read), I know that it’s similar to my favorite sport to play and watch – baseball.
Although in the book, Bryson exaggerates the game to be extremely long and excruciatingly boring, I know that it’s extremely popular around the world and probably for a reason. I was really hoping that we’d get to go to a cricket game, but I think we got here way too late in the summer for that to be possible. I settled for a little batting and bowling practice in class though, and it was pretty fun. Although I felt a little embarrassed playing the T-ball version in front of a bunch of Australians playing rugby, I still had a good time and will look more into watching and learning more about cricket next summer.
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