While a few bats became templates for additions to ... By contrast, bat and ball is the antithesis of modern professional cricket; the former as fluid and forgiving as the latter is rule-bound ...

Cricket is a simple game in that one team tries to score more runs than the other team by hitting a ball with a bat. But like many sports, it has layers upon layers of rules and variations.

The white uniforms were replaced with flashy, colorful jerseys (though we must feel sorry for the poor cricket ball, which went from ... Anybody who could wield a bat, or roll an arm could become ...