In our regular Friday Please Explain feature, we look at the intricacies of one of the world’s most popular sports: cricket. We’ll find out how it’s played, how it became so popular, and why it hasn’t ever really caught on in America. Gideon Haigh, who
covers Cricket for The Guardian and is the author of Endless Summer: 140 Years of Australian Cricket in Wisden, and Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket, joins us along with Deb K. Das, who writes for Wisden's Cricket Almanac, and covers US cricket for Cricinfo.
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Music: Sonatine #6 and #1
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» Please Explain series
Music: Sonatine #6 and #1
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