No worries. Cricket is a really difficult sport to play (well), but it has some truly bizarre terminology and rules.... like a naked man shouting in the middle of the street, it’s probably best to be left alone.

Yeah, I think you just generally call it an “out”. In terms of the score, it’s called a “wicket”. So, a score of 117-3 is 117 runs scored and 3 wickets (3 batsmen are out by whatever method).

Cricket is fucking weird, and I’m English. Did you know that they have a mathemetical formula to attribute a win if the game can’t be finished due to rain? The “Duckworth-Lewis Method”

I’ll try to explain as best I can, though I’ve never gotten into cricket in all my 33 years as an Englishman. *Deep breath* At any one time, there are two batsmen on the field, each guarding their own home plate (wicket); one recieves the “pitch” from the “pitcher” (bowler) and the other stands ready to run. When they…

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I’ve been giving it a bit more thought and in a sense I disagree with Klinsmann’s stance to a degree. From the point of having a good US international side, I think this really does need a strong domestic league. If players can go abroad to learn their trade then that’s great, but an average US player will find it…

I would have thought that the concept of promotion and relegation fits ‘The American Dream™’ to a tee. You pick yourself up from nothing, work hard and strive for success, and are then rewarded for doing so. Further to that, maybe these teams who consistently finish at the bottom of their league (in all US sports),…

I don’t know whether or not football is the preserve of the white middle-classes in the US or not (I’m a Brit), but there should be no reason that kids from poor backgrounds struggle to play; football is a working-class sport in most nations and the experience of many great players beginning the sport bare-foot in the…