Thread: Test match at the WACA

Originally Posted by Tikki

Richard, what's cricket?????

It is organised abuse of an inoffensive structure of leather and other unknown products by the use of a standardised club, typically made of willow. It is a game of skill, chance and outright frustration developed by the men of England in an attempt to escape the constraints and rigours of the Victorian era family. The result is an elegant dance of skill and chance that can only be understood by the truly insane and appreciated by ... the truly insane. Sociologists have long noted and pondered the immense consumption of mind altering beverages by supporters of the game - at least one of these learned men noted that upon consuming enough of said mind altering substances, the game actually can appear to make some form of sense - that man will be released within ten years ... assuming his doctors is satisfied that he will be safe within the community.

I think that the best approach is to assume that it will never make sense to the disinterested observer, that it will suffer as a spectacle against other seemingly intelligent sporting activities and that spouses of cricket fanatics (be they male or female) are doomed to a twilight zone as the dance of the flannelled fools is performed upon the idiot box.

A wise man once observed that the non-cricketting buff is well served by several large glasses of something intoxicating (but usually served in small glasses) and by not listening to the commetary of Tony Grieg.

Richard

if the above helped, I can recommend a good doctor