Fear not, cricket widows
Will Luke
25-Feb-2013
S Rajesh
The Australian summer is upon us but not everyone shares the excitement of watching cricket day in, day out. For those cricket widows, Laura Demasi has provided a "girl's guide" to the sport at one of Sydney Morning Herald's blogs:
Cricket is like hay fever; a seasonal affliction that consumes its victims relentlessly; chewing up days and weeks of your life. And an obscenely unfair share of household TV time.
To me the game looks like little more than a bunch of guys wearing white lipstick, standing around a very large patch of grass doing a bad job of resisting the urge to itch their crotches, which, granted, must be mightily irritated in those polyester pants.
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In an ideal world we could just run away to ... err (anywhere without a television will do) but unfortunately cricket's black hole-like qualities do make it difficult to escape its grass-stained grasp every single time.
So when life demands that you do cricket, we recommend you fake it. Your impressive knowledge of the sport will earn you serious brownie points, which can be leveraged to your advantage the next time HE complains about your dedication to shopping.
Will Luke is assistant editor of ESPNcricinfo