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[impulsereader]

So now I am Learning All About Cricket.

Is it OOC of Sherlock to be a decent bowler?

ETA - I have no idea what this means, but I'm having fun trying to puzzle it out...

The ball following a front foot no-ball will be a free-hit for the batsman, whereby he is safe from losing his wicket except for being run-out.

Edited again - sneering Mycroft aside, do we think the boys actually call their mother Mummy? as adults? I'm not sure I can make myself do that.

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[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

I am Learning All About Cricket

Good luck with that! I was told (only half-jokingly, I suspect), by a family friend on whose family I base a lot of my Sherlock writing, that cricket was a game invented by monks to teach laypeople to understand the concept of eternity.

With the schools that Sherlock would have gone to, I'd imagine he'd have to have developed some sporting skills, if only by default, since those schools seem to put a lot of emphasis on Doing Stuff. He's not much of a team sport player, so I always imagine him as a swimmer or a cross-country runner. Sports that can fulfill a public school requirement of Doing Stuff, but that don't require a lot of interaction with other students.

I suspect that they might well address her as Mummy, but refer to her as "my/our mother."

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes, it is a tricksy sort of creature, is cricket. I'll be reading along in Wikipedia going all, yup, ok, yup, and then I'm suddenly, no, wait, what? The language is awesome though, I love all the terminology and I love that innings is plural even when it's singular.

Yeah, he's not a team player. Solitary sports would appeal to him much more, but I think he probably had to pick up some skills along the way. I think accurate throwing is a skill that would serve him well in a lot of areas and just coincidentally he's a good bowler because of it (though he is frequently called for chucking) and gets recruited because you need 11 people per team and they always need more people, at least in my specific circumstances.

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

I am reminded that Doctor Who (who in his Fifth incarnation wore cricket whites All The Time) has been known to knock bad guys out with a well-aimed cricket ball to the head. :D

Cricket has such a long history. Especially where people own estates: House vs Village matches or Family vs Staff were traditionally something of a fixture.

Even some all-girls' private schools have cricket on the "Games" curriculum, let alone the boys' schools. Just FYI.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

That's extremely helpful. I haven't yet devoted any real time to visualizing the cricket scene, but things that I read seem to sort of gel with things I'm thinking while I'm not looking, so this is perfect - grit for the pearl to mix my imagery.