I < 3 cricket

I have a new favorite game - cricket. Forget all about handball, football (ugh), tennis and curling; cricket is my new favorite. It's strange though, how a game that lasts for seven hours and for five days can thrill me so much.

On friday I watched the game on a big screen i Jameson Park

Chris from Manchester - my first cricket victim.

I luckily knew some of the rules before I left Norway, and I had now idea I would be in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney during the Ashes (and for that sake in Hobart for the Rolex race). I spent the last couple of days bothering Chris and James with stupid questions. What just happen? Do the ball have to bounce? Why did the judge do that? They have been really patient with me, and I want to thank them for that, because now I can see a whole game of cricket, scream and yell and still know what's happening.

At WACA, the cricket arena. Saturday.

I have to classify cricket as a civilized type of football. Of course cricket is nothing like football, but the fans - oh my, they can make noice, yell and so on, but they do not fight. And they can sit right next to the opponent without problems. No wonder I like cricket. Even better is you can sit the whole day out in the sun, doing nothing and at the same time do everything.

Probably the cheeziest picture ever taken