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One word: Cricket One of the many standout features of a sport that already includes: - being famous for taking five days to play and often ending in a drawe
by gorgoiler 1y ago
One word:
Cricket
One of the many standout features of a sport that already includes:
- being famous for taking five days to play and often ending in a drawer;
- where a major component of play is the nature and timing of the ball falling apart; and
- where regular fielding positions have names like silly mid on, third man, cow corner, and square leg,
…is that since time immemorial cricket has had a symbiotic relationship with another deeply weird pastime, the art of cricket scoring, namely the erudite process of keeping track of the score:
https://preview.redd.it/englands-first-innings-scoresheet-v0-db7s2wmdocdb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=222afc257f8474dffb6afb06954cd30918866f42 https://preview.redd.it/englands-first-innings-scoresheet-v0...