Please don’t explain cricket. 
Incidentally I don’t think the idea of games and sets is any more arty than at-bats and innings in baseball.
The Rules of Cricket
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 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!
A baseball is hit with a hard lump of wood with no give in it.
A golf ball is hit with a stick that has a lump of metal stuck on the end, again no give
A tennis ball is struck with a faggoty bat with strings on it that has loads of give.
Tennis balls get relatively little punishment compared to the other two.
“Fault”…“First service”
heh
Oh, the relief of the occasional lob.