Celebrating the strange, cruel beauty of social cricketIan Hitchcock Three sticks with two sticks across the top. ROSS SETFORD Social cricket, the willingness to spent eight hours without shade at a sun-baked oval deep in suburbia. When later on, he copped a cricket ball to the throat, he bravely shook it off. The player of the day trophy came home with us and for days after, we practised catching in the garden. If Saturdays can no longer be about my cricket, I don't mind if they become about his cricket.

Source: Stuff December 26, 2017 15:56 UTC