I don't think we had anymore snow in the night but our road was nicely ploughed from yesterday. It was cold -1* with -5* windchill.
I spent the morning (after the boys went off) cleaning, tidying and putting away clothes before going off just before midday to school to pick up Small and three other boys for the School Cricket Tournament.
The tournament was in a big dome and there were about four pitches and lots of school's of mixed co-ed teams. Now Cricket was the first National Sport of Canada and was extremely popular until the early 20th century when it was taken over by hockey (oh how boring). Today the game of cricket was played like so....
- The wickets were double the size with no bales
- The batsman rans sideways to two discs placed either side of the wickets
- The bowler bowls non-stop (very closely) for six balls regardless of whether the batsman is caught out or not
- The fielders try and catch the ball or get it back to the bowler as fast as possible.
- The fielders, batsman and bowler rotates after every six balls.
- A waffle ball was used (like an air ball, plastic with holes it. It does not travel far)
- If the ball gets hit over the line without touching the floor you get awarded 4 or 2 depending on something the umpire said!
- You should not bend your arm when bowling but everyone did. Sometimes the umpire pulled them up on this and other times didn't!
Our team lost by 80 in the first game, then won the second game by 40. The last two games were lost but not by many. It was long, but enjoyable and I got to chat to several of the nice mums though it was cold in there.
Smallest got home before us as we dropped off three other boys (not one of them said thank you - grumpy face emoji) and we had dinner before Smallest and Huffle went off to football practice. Small watched I'm a Celebrity in his room and I did some knitting and tried to get warm under my blanket.
Well done Leicester City for winning today.
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