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Subject: Cricket match which is funnier than baseball
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The Baseball description reminds me of how this
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native went to his first cricket match and described it
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to his witchdoctor after he got back. I heard it when
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I was in college and have no idea where it originated.
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He said "It was a beautiful sunny Sunday. A big
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crowd of people gathered around this giant grass field
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with a thin strip of mowed and flattened pitch in the middle.
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There were three sticks at either end of the strip.
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A man in a long overcoat came out with two men in sweaters
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and he tossed a coin in to the air. They went out and out
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came eleven men in sweaters and white pants. One of them was padded
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and had big gloves. Then out came two men with pads on their legs
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and small gloves holding big sticks. They took positions at
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either end of the strip and one of the other men came running
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towards the wickets and threw this ball at the person holding
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the stick. And lo and behold it started to pour.
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White man sure knows how to make rain"
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