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{{a|cricket| | {{a|cricket|{{image|Catch|jpg|}}}}{{quote| | ||
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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 — | A source of fierce {{tag|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 | 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. | 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. | ||
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