Cricket !!

Scenario 1: (The Bait-an-American Technique)

American:  Hey, is it true that cricket is like a religion in your country?  How can you guys worship a game that lasts for five days, man?

Bobbice: (In a small voice, adopting a facial expression of intense hurt) I don't make fun of your religion, do I?

A: (Confused) What? I wasn't making fun of your religion, bro! (Anxious now) I was just asking you about cricket…

Y: …which is, as is well established, a religion in my country. One of the major faiths, in fact.  We have our own living God and all. Maybe you've seen the posters: "Cricket is our religion, Rohan is our God."

A: That little guy dat falls over is considered a God?

Y: Again, I've never questioned the veracity of your own God…

A: Are you being serious?

Y: Yeah.  I am.

A: (Defensive) Dude, I'm sorry.  If I've offended you…

Y:  (Magnanimous) It's okay, friend. You didn't know.

A:  Well, I appreciate your being cool about it. As a liberal American the last thing I want to do is offend anyone's religious sensibilities.

Y: I know. And it's okay. My religion teaches us to forgive and forget. Especially forget. Just ask Kalicharran.  Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for the tea-time prayer.   

Scenario 2: The "Oriental" Technique

A:  Hey bro, how do you people watch a game that lasts for five days?

Y:  Time is an illusion, my friend.

A:  Say what?

Y: Time is cooking us all alive in this cauldron that is the world.  All efforts, lengthy or brief, amount to the same in the end.

A:  That sounds deep. Is that deep?

Y:  It is. 

A:  In that case, say no more.  You've convinced me.  I'm going to grow a beard and backpack around the world until I find a cricket match I can find enlightenment in. Hey, you think I might consequently then get to invent something as important as the iPod as well?

Y: No.

Scenario 3: The Dropping-the-bomb Technique

A: I just don't get cricket.

Y: Surprising, as it was once your national sport.

A: What?

Y: In fact, the first international cricket match
  was played between the US and Canada, in 1844.  :cool:

A: My mind is blown. I will never see the world the same way ever again.

Y: Dats okay !

Scenario 4: The Absurd  technique

A:  Hey dude, you follow cricket don't you?  I've always wanted to ask you something …

    why, oh why does the ball bounce before reaching the batter ?

Y:  OMG, I was dreading that very question. It's almost too embarrassing to say.

A: Huh?  :undecided:

Y: The sad truth of the matter is, the ball isn't supposed to bounce before reaching the, uh, batter.

A:  It isn't?

Y:  Nope!  The ball is supposed to come straight onto the bat, just as in baseball.

A:  Okaaay…  so why then?

Y:  We didn't think anyone would notice otherwise !    ::redcard::

An explanation for the Girls :  :cool:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in

and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are  all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes

out  and tries to get those coming in, out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get  him out,

and  when he  is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide

when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have been out,

and  both sides have  been out twice after  all the  men have been in,

including those who are not out :

That is the end of the game !