The sun may have set on the British Empire but in a little corner of Massachusetts its legacy lives on.
Cricket is a little like baseball.
In both games, players try to hit balls with bats and make runs. One team's turn at bat in cricket is called an innings. The batting team tries to score runs while the bowling team tries to put the batting players out. When one side is all out, the other side bats and tries to beat the first team's score. Both games are slow by basketball standards, and both are a kind of meditation, a study in nerves and tactics rather than a display of athletic prowess.