Cricket: the exotic sport that drives the British crazy

Insults, intimidation, fights and depression play a leading role in a sport that represents great values ​​and is born of the gentleman's mentality.
During my stay in Spain, a comment I've often heard about British culture is this: What the hell is cricket? If you consult it in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy you will find the following definition: "Ball game that is practiced with wooden pallets" PSL 2018 Live Streaming. Meanwhile, in his book Education of Leisure and Free Time with Alternative Physical Activities, Manuel Martínez Gámez Mara gives us a little more detail: "Cricket is a sport of English origin, which is played outdoors between two teams of eleven players / as, with bats, balls and rakes ".
It has become clear…? Do not? The fact is that summarizing the fundamentals of the game is almost impossible without writing a minitose. And perhaps that's why the famous British lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, did not include a definition of cricket in his first dictionary of the English language, which was published in 1755 - more than a decade after the first official regulations of the game were established in London .

In 1871, the journalist and cricket aficionado Frederick Gale tried to rectify the absence of the word in Johnson's dictionary, imagining a conversation between him and his biographer, James Boswell, in which together they would define this sport as: "A game that it requires patience and mind control and that involves some danger, so courage is also required. " According to Gale, cricket represented the values ​​of courage, strength and perseverance.
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