Cricket....

We went to a 1 day test match that featured South Africa vs. Sri Lanka. In fact it was the last 1 day test match South Africa was leading the series 3-1. I was told it would be about 8 hours long (This is the short version). It was actually quite fun and finally feel a bit more comfortable understanding the game.

It was a perfect day to start out we got there just about 10 am for the start of the match!

We had pretty good seats...okay so basically each team takes 1 turn at batting they get 50 0vers (an over is like an inning in baseball but it is defined by 6 legal picthes). So essentially you get 300 attempts to score runs...If it flys out of the park it is 6 runs, if it hits the wall it is 4 runs, then if it clears the fielder they can run for one. You can get a batter out by catching it or hitting the wicket. They get 10 outs. Now you can see why this would take 8 hours....

That green patch over there would be crickets version of the bleachers. Looked like they were having fun particularly when the rain came down....

Well at the end the game was really close. South Africa batted first so they had to defend their lead. They were up by 5 runs and there were only two pitches left. The video shows this last pitch in which this guy that just came up to bat and after wiffing he then knocked it out of the park on the next pitch for the Sri Lanka Win! It was a tough loss... but it was fun to see it live!