The Cricket Match May 23, 2010
Posted by tiffany in : England , trackbackToday we were pretty set on going to Stonehenge but then we got invited to go to a Cricket match. We thought to ourselves, “Stonehenge will be there every day, but going to a Cricket match is pretty rare for us”. So we got in the car with our host family and when we got there we discovered that admission was not 5 pound; it was 22 pound. Thinking that we weren’t going to experience Cricket, we were a bit depressed.
But Rob and Karen had an idea- go to a different Cricket match. There are apparently many of them going on all the time for different leagues. So we got back in the car and headed to the Bath Cricket Club, which both of their sons are members of, and watched a match between two teams from different areas of Bath (which is funny considering how small Bath is).The best part was that we got to experience it completely free!
It was an interesting experience since the spectators go to the game to only watch the game in between being social or even doing a crossword puzzle. It was completely different from what I have ever experienced at a sport event. The original game lasted about five days but the newer versions are much quicker (the 20/20 or the 40/40 matches). The game we saw was the 40/40 meaning each team gets 40 opens which consist of 6 pitches each (it still isn’t very quick). Right in the middle of the game they have a break for tea and sandwiches and throughout the game they take several breaks to have some juice.
It was hilarious in the way of the game taking so long. A player on the field spent most of his time against a wall with his girlfriend while the game was in play. He would get up and walk towards where the ball was headed and then, when it didn’t actually need him to do anything, he would go back to the wall and talk to his lady friend. Rob was making jokes about how the spectators just start clapping probably because they don’t know what is going on and someone else started clapping. Either that or people just clap when the players move around a bit (how many people actually pay attention?). Also, the game is so long that one has to pause the game and eat something? The whole thing is one big British comedy. Today was a lot of fun.
Tomorrow we begin the work week again, so I’m not too incredibly sure if anything exciting will happen. Chris has been working with Rob to make his websites better and much more manageable while I move and sort kitchen supplies from their temporary storage area in the music room (they need the music room in working condition so they can reopen it to the guests for meetings and seminars). Although we’re thinking about taking an afternoon this week to go to Stonehenge since it will probably be less crowded during the work week.
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