Baseball fans would jump up and down also.
I am not a teacher.
Cricket as explained to a foreigner. Often seen in pubs in my youth.
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
Both sports are completely impenetrable to outsiders. I have seen the news in Japan hundreds of times and am no clearer about what the stream of baseball statistics means. Over the same time, I have accidentally acquired a reasonable understanding of sumo wrestling, which makes far more sense. Baseball, like cricket, cannot be learned by passive assimilation. I think comparing them on the yadda yadda scale is fair. Both sports have contributed disproportionately to sporting idioms because they had to as they make no sense. ;-)
There is no context. I was reading the COLLINS COBUILD USAGE when I came across this sentence in the entry of 'following':
I am not a teacher.
Cricket as explained to a foreigner. Often seen in pubs in my youth.
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
Now waiting to hear the rules of sumo wrestling!
I wonder whether Groucho Marx or The Monty Python could have made it any clearer! :lol: