LOL Remind him Australia has it's ups and downs too, and tell him to upset the World Champs back then was a huge deal in Australia. On coming here cricket was boring as hell for me, then again as kids we got bored with baseball. Test matches and many others still too are four day affairs. With a draw after all that not unusual.
The Packer family .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packer_family .. has long been one of Australia's most wealthy and powerful. Pretty well follows, eh. Good and bads, of course too. i mention them because Kerry Packer introduced one day cricket. One for your shopkeeper friend:
May 9 down the years - Packer's revolution
The circus gets on the road
World Series Cricket signings pose - with a fast-food clown - at the launch of Kerry Packer's venture, November 1977 World Series Cricket reeled in some big names • ESPNcricinfo Ltd
1977 The day the world's top cricketers turned pirate. That was the Daily Mail headline when the Australian TV magnate Kerry Packer's plans for World Series Cricket were leaked. John Arlott called it "a circus"; EW Swanton ended his friendship with the England captain Tony Greig, Packer's most significant signing and the man who persuaded a legion of other stars to sign up, including Viv and Barry Richards and Dennis Lillee. In the end, World Series Cricket went on for only 17 months before Packer got his wish - the broadcast rights for Test cricket in Australia - but the legacy lives on. Coloured clothing and floodlights revolutionised the game, and without Packer, one-day cricket as we know it today would not exist.
Heaps more, maybe one for your shopkeeper friend - [...] Other birthdays 1907 Tom Killick (England) 1945 Malcolm Nash (England) 1960 Iain Butchart (Zimbabwe) 1971 Roydon Hayes (New Zealand) 1971 Kalyani Dhokarikar (India) https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/54281.html 1980 Sean Clingeleffer (Australia)
I posted years ago i'd seen the 2nd part of this years ago on the wall of a Sydney pub
Back in the 1970s an enterprising soul in England came up with an amusing explanation of cricket, clearly aimed at the kind of American tourists who buy plastic policemen's helmets and who believe that Dick van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins was exactly how 98% of England spoke (the other 2% being West County yokels with straw poking out of every available orifice).
What started as a novel marketing ploy has burgeoned into a beast utterly out of control. Thirty years on, the tea towels refuse to die, and anyone who enjoys cricket will have almost certainly been given one of the infernal things by a distant aunt or newly acquired mother-in-law who thought it would be "ideal for Christmas".
Anyone who receives one is allowed to be rude to the giver, and is also duty-bound to burn the cloth immediately.
But, as requested by some masochists, here is the text in full ...
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...
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 thats 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 all 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 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!
maybe someday I'll go catch a match with my storekeeper friend and he can explain the game to me in real time. 🤓
I once asked an English friend to explain cricket to me. We watched a match on TV. When it ended, I was as mystified as I'd been at the start. At least the Brits seem to find baseball equally incomprehensible.
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