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It's just not kilikiti

It's just not what

George Binoy
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
It's just not what? If you haven't heard of Kilikiti, you might want to read Andy Bull's Spin in the Guardian. It's a variant of cricket played in Samoa.
The Samoans named their bespoke version of the sport kilikiti (or kirikiti), a Polynesian transliteration of cricket. The major change was in the number of players per side, which was increased to allow greater participation. "It is nothing unusual to see 30 or 40 opposed to one another," Churchwood wrote, "and I have known them to play as many as 200 odd a side. The fact is, that these matches are of one town against another, in which all insist upon taking a hand. These huge meetings, as may be readily imagined, last a week or more, junketing going on the whole time, and generally wind up with a big feast."

George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo