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[anthershrtruind]

I tell you, cricket makes my mind spin. Here I thought I had it all figured out, only come to discover that the wicket is not actually the surface the game is played on, which was what I thought, but these posts sticking up out of the ground. The whole point of the game, I think, is to throw this ball at the wicket, and then the batter tries to keep the wicket from getting hit with a bat, only then he's supposed to score "runs" by running back and forth between the wickets (there are more than one), while the pitcher, who is actually called the bowler, still tries to hit the wickets. And then the outfielders, merely called fielders, stand in these silly poses, one of which is actually called the "silly catching position", which looks like a chicken about to lay an egg, trying to catch the ball. Except that I can't figure out whose team they are on; the bowler or the batter. Although I say it seems like a sport I could play. I don't think you have to be in good shape. They all just stand around for hours, literally HOURS that it takes to play a match. I think they can actually go on for days. And its up to the team itself to decide when their innings (innings is the singular, so what's the plural? Inningses? Inningsi?) is over. So what if they decide never to declare it over? They say it's like baseball, only if baseball is derived from cricket, it must be the dumbed down version. They do wear groin protectors, but I guess that makes sense because the bowler does just that--he bowls the ball rather than throwing it and it bounces along on the ground on its way to the wicket. The Silly Catching Position does seem like it could pose danger to the unprotected male player.

What then, if all this is true, is a sticky wicket?