Day 88 - That's Cricket

As well as liking snooker, I also like cricket, which if there was still any doubt left as to whether I was a boring loser, this is the confirmation. I have been on a cricket hiatus the past few years but with Ben Stokes captaining England through surreal offensive tactics, I am now fully back on board. His tactics are so insane that its gotten to the stage where if we start playing like a normal test team, I also find that funny. Win win!

With my return comes the return of all the classic cricket ridiculousness. An obsession with the weather forecast being the primary one. On no other occasion would I care if it was raining in North-West Birmingham for a bit on a Tuesday morning, but today I am very happy about it. That's cricket.

The other most apparent aspect of cricket, which is also what makes it seem much more complicated an alienating to casual observers than it actually is, is the sheer amount of abbreviations and decimal numbers constantly flashing up on the screen. Fundamentally, as with most sports, it is simply a game in which you need to end up on a bigger score than the other team, but I can absolutely see why it looks like a lot more difficult to understand than that. Of course I'm oversimplifying to some degree, there are a few other things within the rules, but you don't really need to pay attention to most of the numbers on screen if you don't want to. But cricket is clearly for nerds and we want more numbers!!!

That's cricket.