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esperenttoday at 4:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

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Everyone not from one Uk, India... maybe Australia you mean?


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roryirvinetoday at 5:13 PM

Not even the whole of the UK - really only England and Wales (as a singular entity, rather than individually).

The rest of us know it only for its impenetrable jargon ("They've risked a woggle on the silly midden!"), the grating public school chumminess of the commentators, and a rumour about a puerile "joke" which may or may not have been told on the radio coverage in the early 1980s.

Honestly, it's a sport I suspect I ought to like - full of stats and strategy - but it really does seem impossible to follow unless you've been inculcated since birth.

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foldrtoday at 9:32 PM

Cricket is the world's second most popular sport. It's actually much more popular than baseball from a global perspective.

gib444today at 5:09 PM

...South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies...