Back in the 1970s, some enterprising soul in England came up with tea towel that explained the game 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 that’s 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 been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including the not outs, that’s the end of the game.
Could it be any simpler? 😉
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