Well it is everywhere. Everytime I walk my dog I see kids and families playing cricket. They are playing in the park and in the street. I have never seen anything like it in this country. It just shows that winning is still the key to getting people to play sport, and finally the message may get through to the liberals who took competitive sport off the school curriculum. Hopefully our government will finally get it and start supporting the national teams and sportspeople more.
It gets even better, the ramshackle 6 or so kids who have been using the all weather strip in the local park, today staged a game with about 20 of them playing, they even had an umpire with a notebook! The funniest thing was that the guy who was next in to bat was padded up on the boundary and one of the lads batting had no pads on at all. The over I saw consisted of a couple of beamers, 3 wides and a couple of streaky singles. But at least they aren't using their bikes as the slip fielders anymore!
Freddie, what have you started?
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