Last Saturday Mike and Mack (mike's brother) took me to my first Cricket game. We were playing Austrailia (ranked #1) in a 3-day tournament. We had lost two of the games but this game was in Christchurch so we went along. Cricket is a long game but I sort of got into it by the end and I understood what I was watching. What was so ironic is that on the field it is such a colonial, sort of gentlemanly game, while in the stands, well at least the one we were in, it is a complete riotous mess. Apparently cricket is an excuse to get completely drunk out of your mind. Beer was consumed in innumerable quanities. I don't even think some of the people knew they were at a game. It was very entertaining for sure, even if at times the cricket was dull, the crowd was not.
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