This is Cricket, not
Baseball?
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Did
he just say, “The dug-out”? Yes, he most certainly did.
Watching
one of the IPL games, I thought I wasn’t so sure what I heard until I heard it
again. The “dug-out”. Have any of these
cricket commentators ever seen a dug-out?? I very much doubt it. Take a trip to
Yankee Stadium or Wrigley Field to see what a dug-out really is.
A
dug-out, ladies and gentlemen, is a sunken area on
the side of a field where the players stay while not on the field. The area is
literally “dug out” from the ground level, and hence it’s name. Call this one a
“bench” if you like, but certainly not a “dug-out”.
And
just when I thought, may be, this is just an exception, I hear another one…
“He
is being sent in as a pinch hitter!!” WHAT??
A Pinch Hitter? What does that mean? Well, I mean
in the context of cricket – what does it really mean? Do they know what they
are saying or are they trying to be like Vin
Scully or Tom Seaver. Don’t even try!! Do these folks
even know what a pinch hitter is??
It almost
seems like we are forgetting that this is cricket, not baseball. Why are we
allowing terms that are unique to baseball to slide into the cricket world?
Cricket was first played in
So
why not leave BASEBALL alone – this is CRICKET for crying out aloud!!