The Lady Hooligan’s Page

(Also known as the “Ins and Outs of Cricket”!)

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 that’s 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.

Simple!

(I don’t know who should get the credit for this, otherwise I would have given it!  I know it is printed onto a tea towel somewhere in Wales and the BBC made a skit out of it as well many years ago. So, if you are the author and I haven’t found you to ask your permission - my sincerest apologies!)