OK, some good news:
An ESPN internet-only service that doesn’t require a login from your expensive cable subscription—and lots of channels you don’t want—might soon be be available in the US. But there is a catch. It will, if reports are accurate, involve a sport that many Americans do not watch or understand: cricket.
… ESPN is planning an online service for the Cricket World Cup, which will be held in Australia and New Zealand from mid-February and run for about six weeks.
OK … so let me explain cricket to our US readers, it really isn’t that difficult.
In fact, let me repeat what our man in cricket’s home (Ryan L., all the way over there in the rainy UK) has already explained – but check out his original post as it includes a video explanation too … and the video is a must see. Trust me on this
For those of foreign disposition here is cricket explained:
The Rules of Cricket
- You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
- Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out.
- When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out.
- Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
- When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
- There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
- When both sides have been in and all the men have got out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
