"Your correspondent has long and bitter experience of trying and failing to explain the rules of cricket to folks who didn't grow up with the game. Suffice to say it involves one player propelling a ball that's a little larger and harder than a baseball toward another player who wields a substantial oblong wooden bat, which when wielded well can send the ball over 100 meters through the air at speeds exceeding 150 km/h."
"Frank's boss worked in a datacenter staffed by teams on eight-hour shifts, and the job was boring because it was a well-run facility where breakages and outages were rare. To relieve the boredom, one of the team brought in a cricket bat and a softish version of a cricket ball used for indoor play and training. The team started to play, initially in the break room."
"'Did they report them? No. Instead, the midnight shift started arriving early so they could play against the late shift,' Frank told Who, Me? 'This went on for quite a while and they had leaderboards to record the top scorers.' The games continued until one day a player whacked the ball hard, and it crashed into the 'In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass' alarm and broke the glass."
A datacenter staffed on eight-hour shifts became bored because the facility was well-run and outages were rare. To relieve boredom, one team member brought an indoor cricket bat and a soft training ball. The team began playing initially in the break room and then moved onto datacenter aisles that resembled cricket pitches. Play expanded so shifts competed, with the midnight shift arriving early to face the late shift and leaderboards tracking top scorers. The games continued until a hard hit shattered the glass of an 'In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass' alarm.
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