Hit and run

What better to do on a Friday evening then helping the neighbor to empty his crate of Coronas? Well, what about supporting a good cause? I do agree that 'helping though neighbor' can also be considered to be a good cause but I mean something different entirely. Whilst doing my neighborly duty my ears picked up the amplified voice of a commentator of some sort. Too far away to make any sense of it or this was due to the language spoken. As my neighbor went of todreamland, I headed off in the direction of the Voice and found myself a couple of blocks later amidst the audience of a life cricket match. I worked out by the absence of heavily armed hooligans and the presence of entire families that is was safe to stay a bit longer. Now, like the rest of you, bar my brother in law, I do not know all the rules of this game. But what I do know strikes me as rather a waste of time. Playing test matches as if it were the first time the game is 
played and have matches that take up to 5 days to end in a draw. How useless is that. Not that the players on the pitch did mind. They seemed non the wiser as they shook hands after the match. India played Pakistan, or vice versa, and came out on top
Did this cause any riots? After all both countries have been rivals for ages and even clash now and then in Kashmir. Which incidentally has nothing to do with the quality of the sweaters. Nope, even after India in complete harmony with
ABBA took all, there was a lot of camaraderie amongst the players. And that was a good thing as the match was played to raise funds to fight cancer, not each other. After some inspiring words by the Voice, which went completely over my head as I have not mastered Hindi yet, we were all free to go. I would say an evening well spent. 

I walked home pondering about some facts that stuck in my head as proof of Dutch successes in this otherwise irrelevant sport. In the Netherlands that is. How about june 2009 when the Dutch cricketers beat England at the Worldcup Twenty20. Shocking. Was this a coincidence then? I fear it was not. Exactly the same thing happened in March 2014 at the Worldcup Twenty20 too. Something my brother in law would rather not be reminded of. Nevertheless, watching a baseball game is more my cup of tea. It boils down to the same basics but is much more difficult as the bat is much smaller. And it is less wicked. Hit and run that is what I make of it...