There was a question about one of the slower, duller team sports - Cricket - posted on one of my favourite blogs (answergirlnet.blogspot.com). A basic, nevertheless important question: how do you actually play it?

How? What about why? They tell me there's a difference between Cricket and paint drying. There is ? How long has that been there?

I'm English, and I don't understand Cricket... well, not the nuances of it, and this game by the way, thrives on nuance. Imagine settling down to watch chess on grass 'cos that's cricket. Gimme 90 minutes of that high energy contact game we Brits refer to as Football. Such a gentlemanly sport too...