MrMycroft t1_iw74tbs wrote on November 13, 2022 at 1:59 PM

Reply to comment by Schaden666 in TIFU by walking out of the bathroom naked in front of my 62 year old uncle by [deleted]

I can see this. A guy I served with was from a cricket playing country, and he tried to get other people into it. The level of seriousness he had about cricket was unlike anything I had ever seen. He literally chose cricket games over any other off duty activity.

I still don't understand the game, even though I watched a few with him.

Schaden666 t1_iw7anz9 wrote on November 13, 2022 at 2:48 PM

Brief explanation...this does appear not to mention the whole stopping for tea thing though so not entirely complete. Also fails to mention that a game takes 5 days to complete...very poor show.

You have two sides, one out in the field and 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 thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!