On  Wed, 29 Dec 2010 Geoffrey Heard  wrote:

>Cricket is very simple, Ferren. It is a form of offensive-defensive
>play like soccer invented by the English so they could impose it on
>other peoples then demonstrate pseudo humility when beaten on the
>field by those people whom they look down on.

That explains it, then.

-- Ferren
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