Just 4 days in and the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies has been non-stop excitement. England lost their opener to New Zealand, but then beat lowly Canada
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Yep. A bowler bowls 6 balls in a row to a batsman, then is switched for another bowler, from the other "end" of the pitch. 6 balls is called one "over". The most runs you can score off each is 6 - this is when you hit the ball out of the field. This doesnt happen very often, maybe a couple of times per game. This guy did it 6 times in a row! It is more like hitting 6 grand slam homers in a row. It's happened 4 times in the 200+ year history of international cricket. But yes, cricket is complicated, but once you get it, it all seems perfectly natural and simple. Maybe like a programming language, or physics - arcane to the laymen, but perfectly natural and straightforward to the initiated.
I like the way you romanticized your description; sounds like something I'd say to someone who didn't understand baseball. Seems like the two sports share certain similarities, eh?
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None of that made any sense to me, except the part about "home runs" -- that has to be a good thing, right?
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It is more like hitting 6 grand slam homers in a row. It's happened 4 times in the 200+ year history of international cricket.
But yes, cricket is complicated, but once you get it, it all seems perfectly natural and simple. Maybe like a programming language, or physics - arcane to the laymen, but perfectly natural and straightforward to the initiated.
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