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As expected, rain stopped play just before 3pm and we decided not to hang around waiting for the formal announcement that play had been abandoned for the day.

Cricket in progress
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As you can so easily tell ( ;) ) South Africa are batting in the above picture and England fielding. South Africa's team have whites that are white ... and England's whites are actually cream :D

Actually the easiest way to tell is that one of the batsmen is really short. SA's Bavuma is only 5'3"
 

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As expected, rain stopped play just before 3pm and we decided not to hang around waiting for the formal announcement that play had been abandoned for the day.

Cricket in progress
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As you can so easily tell ( ;) ) South Africa are batting in the above picture and England fielding. South Africa's team have whites that are white ... and England's whites are actually cream :D

Actually the easiest way to tell is that one of the batsmen is really short. SA's Bavuma is only 5'3"
At least you got a fair bit of play.
More than you'd get at a football match, for example.
Could've been a lot worse.:)
 

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Good morning all.

Today we're going to watch a very traditional British sport - cricket.

The weather is also set to be traditionally British so we're quite likely to be spending the day doing something else traditionally British... huddling under an umbrella while waiting for the rain to stop :D
Haha!!!!
I tried to watch cricket when I worked in New Zealand, but just couldn't get into it. :(
 

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And for the non-Brits, cricket is the sport where two teams play each other in a single match for 5 days*, complete with breaks for lunch and tea, and there is no guaranteed winner at the end :D

*International test match. Shorter matches over 3 or 1 day take place too, but there's still no guarantee that the match won't be a draw
What a strange...erm...UNUSUAL sport! :p
Did it originate in Britain?
 

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