A combination of baseball and chess?

Peter Smith, 14, started playing in sixth grade after watching Lagaan, a sports-themed Bollywood movie, in school for a unit on India. “I’ve always been interested in British sports,” Peter said. Smith immersed himself in the sport by watching YouTube. Then he organised a few foreign-born students — kids from India, England, and Guyana — to play at recess. At home in Oxford he plays on a homemade pitch and travels hours to find teams to play on.

...There are many reasons players play. Part of the attraction for [Neil] Kimberly is the intellectual challenge. “There is certainly a degree of fascination with it. It has a certain mystique with it—all these players dressed in white,” Kimberly said. “There is also an assumption that it’s a slow moving game. But it’s an interesting combination of baseball and chess.”