Help me understand cricket.

The Game Room
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This is the time to break out the perfect expression of my feelings about cricket, and trying to make sense of it. FRom the West Wing (paraphrased from memory)

Bartlet: Charlie, I consider myself an educated man, but whenever someone tries to explain cricket to me, I get an overwhelming urge to hit them over the head with a teapot.

I live in a country (South Africa) that loves its cricket. My husband has tried to explain the game to me. I can usually pick up things pretty quickly, but for the life of me, I really cannot make sense of cricket. Even if I abandon all concepts from similar sports and take cricket as its own game, I simply can’t grasp it.
(Did a thousand people just say Whop?)

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I lived in England for a year when I was 9 and we never played cricket at school. To this day I’m not sure if anyone knew the rules.

For a pretty good primer rent the movie “Lagaan” - it’s a good Bollywood flick featuring a showdown between the team of plucky villagers (assembled “Seven Samurai” style) and the Dastardly British (with an extra helping of Snideliness).