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[Russell Hadd]

An impromptu lesson on the rules of cricket using the highlights of the test series in South Africa. They wouldn't leave the room and all want to know when they can go to a real game. What have I done!!!???

Has a chinaman ever bowled a chinaman before? If not I could have sown the seeds this week!

[dmb]

Quite a few years ago there was a course book that had a reading activity that tried to explain the rules of cricket. I can't remember the level or the name of the course book. Anyone remember?

[teacheringreece]

I've done cricket lessons before. You can do all kinds of stuff, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, language for rules (zero conditionals mainly). I've also taken them out to play in summer schools and they normally love it. I remember one occassion two self-styled Russian hardcases saying to me: "It's very interesting this game cricket. I would like to find out more about it". Japanese students are sometimes quite good at batting because they play baseball, and Japanese girls like running around in groups after the ball.

Generally outside the ex British colonies no-one in the world even knows what the ball looks like so they tend to be very interested.

[scot47]

Great problem that has puzzled me for years : why did cricket catch on in the Raj but football did not ?

[Will.]

I think it could have had something to do with " Only for the lower classes"
and football being played by the enlisted men whereas the officers played cricket. those with time to play cricket emulated the officers and thus it trickled down the strata into the street and alley.
I could be wrong but it fits the image doesn't it?

[grahamb]

Loath as I am to discuss the greatest ever cure for insomnia, I think the answer could be related to chronology. Association Football developed in the UK from about the mid-1860s, whereas cricket had been around a lot longer. I guess cricket was firmly established in the Indian sub-continent by the time football crossed the oceans.
Association Football was a middle-class affair before it achieved mass popularity.

[flavoursome]

I guess some of it has to do with physique as well
I've heard people say that Indians are not so naturally disposed body wise to be professional footballers
How many Indians play in any English league? -
no role models for the indian kids to emulate

Can you imagine an Indian Beckam?

Maybe it's a religous thing to - you cant exactly do a neat little glancing header with a ruddy great turban on yer bonce now , can you?

[Rice Paddy Daddy]

EFL cricket lessons ESL?

[SueH]