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Cricket is a strange game - one that is, with due respect to our American readers, difficult to understand unless you have taken some time to study the rules* (see below). I have a mate who likes cricket. In fact all of my mates do, all three of them, but this one has the time to watch it on the telly. There he is watching one of the best ever one-day internationals between two cricket crazy countries, Pakistan and India. The match is breaking many records for run scoring and reaching a fulminating climax. Then the phone goes. Another friend is on the line:
"I can't find my car keys - can you play the first few boards of a match until I find them?"
Our cricket lover begrudgingly abandons the telly and drives to the next town to play in a match with someone whom he'd rather not be playing. Our friend is not a happy bunny....

*RULES OF CRICKET
You have two sides, one out, one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and out including the not outs then that's the end of the game.
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