What a great game cricket is. To me anyway. The game is so often played with such good sportsmanship, and passion. Nobody trying to get an opponent sent off, or con the U.umpire into making a decision that will benefit their team. The sound of willow on ball used to indictate the beginning of summer for me. When I lived with my parents I could see the village green from my bedroom window. Many a saturday was spent just gazing out at the green, watching teams play the noble sport.
Many will argue that cricket is boring. I would just answer, "how?" A whole day of sporting entertainment, instead of eighty or ninety minutes. Crowds that enjoy the game and a beer without the need for a riot, in England anyway. Fielders may be inactive for large parts of the game, yet have to be ready to react should the ball travel towards them.
They are then responsible for either catching the ball or minimising the amount of runs scored. Bowlers and batsmen are a lot more active. There is a lot of skill in bowling a fast ball accurately, as well as be able to strike it in bat to score the maximum amount of runs. Anyone who has watched a nail biting game where a small amount of runs are the only difference between your team winning or losing will testify to the excitement stirred up. Watching wickets falling that could make your team winners has got to be as exciting as someone kicking a ball into the back of a net hasn't it?
There are also many who propose that there is little skill to the game. That the game is "easy". I suggest they stand in bat in front of a fast bowler and not run cowering after the first ball whizzes past them at nearly one hundred miles per hour. Those same people may wish to try and bowl the ball accurately with any speed or spin, and not have the batsman score obscene amounts of runs from their bowling. When I first started to play cricket as a youngster I was amazed at just how physically tiring it was to bowl a good over. As for the bgame being easy, it took a lot of practice for me to avoid the vast array of bruising I recieved from balls that I had missed judged and had contact with. There are still plenty of injuries and bruising, even from the most experienced players. You never stop improving in this game.
Just because cricket has a touch more class than other sports, avoiding bad press and over exposure, does not mean that it is any less exciting or requires a lesser level of talent. The relaxing atnosphere of a game, beer in hand, friendly banter with opposing supporters, watching a good game, is as exciting as anything else I could imagine watching. As for taking part in a competitive game, batting, bowling, fielding or keeping wicket, it feels as exciting, and leads me to be driven to want to win as much as any other sportsmen would feel playing their chosen persuit. Cricket remains a wonderfull pass time to me, just as it always has done.
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