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A source of fierce [[metaphor]] for all who sail in her. One has no hope of understanding the English — or their dominions — without understanding cricket.

Cricket is a game with no practical interest or utility except 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 a 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 [[Tedious|pointless]], long-winded and boring. 

“Ahh,” says the cricket connoisseur, well-practised 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 [[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''.

Sadly there is no truth to the [[Miller v Jackson - Case Note|rumour]], however energetically [[Lord Denning]] tried to propagate it, that [[cricket]] is incapable of being a [[nuisance]].

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