Outs not wickets? Linguistic leg-spin won’t make people fall in love with cricket | Daniel Harris

Cricket is profoundly and uniquely loveable – the Hundred’s organisers must retain their confidence in its magnificenceAll sports develop idiosyncratic lexicons, word games that allow us to understand their peculiarities and particularities. But there is more to it than that: once we understand the various terms, we join a global community and eternal continuum which makes us feel spoken to and seen. Joining such fellowship is one of the great, nourishing moments of childhood, and pa