David Richerby wrote in
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Nick wrote:
(What follows was part of a dialogue. Please read my previous post.)

X: It's obvious. At a sports stadium, everyone always can know who's
winning. All you have to do is to look at the scoreboard.

This kind of conversation is even more fun when talking about cricket.
You do have a scoreboard but it's still quite common not to be able to
tell who (if anyone) is winning. :-)

Dear Dave,

Quite so, yet please let's not confuse the issue any more than it has to be. :-)

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the
side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in
until he's out. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the
side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes
you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out,
including the not outs, that's the end of the game. HOWZAT!"
--the Marylebone Cricket Club

"People who understand cricket form a worldwide magic circle, whose links
join them, not with the United Kingdom as a whole, but with England. For
this reason, a Tory ex-minister (attributed to Lord Tebbit) recently proposed
a 'Cricket Test' to weed out would-be immigrants."
--Norman Davies (The Isles: a History, p. 797)

If there has to be a 'Cricket Test' (which is not to say that I should approve
of it) 'to weed out would-be immigrants', then let's hope that it would not
have to take five days out of the applicants' lives.

'O, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,'
--Robert Browning

--Nick