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A source of fierce {{tag|metaphor}} for all who sail in her. One has no hope of understanding the English — or their dominions — if one is ignorant of {{tag|cricket}}. | A source of fierce {{tag|metaphor}} for all who sail in her. One has no hope of understanding the English — or their dominions — if one is ignorant of {{tag|cricket}}. | ||
Cricket is a game with no practical interest or utility save as a metaphor for our grim, tenuous grip on life on this planet, in all its forms and with all its varieties. | |||
People who don't understand the metaphorical power of cricket (and there are plenty of them), or who view it simply as game played between spells of rain over a period of weeks by people wearing old fashioned tennis gear are prone to writing it off as utterly pointless, long-winded and boring. | |||
“Ahh,” says the cricket connoisseur, well-practiced in cynical ruminations on the meaning of his own existence, “but isn’t that exactly the ''point''.” | |||
Cricket is therefore always a rich source of metaphors in business life, some of which have made it to {{tag|buzzword}} status and some, sadly, to the less august level of mere cliché. Those ones you will just have to play with ''a straight bat''. | |||
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