"Cricket had been his English father's favourite sport until dying in a car crash three years ago. Since then, Jake sometimes watches cricket clips on YouTube to try to understand what it is all about. Now, in the unlikeliest of locations, while on holiday with his mother in Corfu, he had stumbled across real-life cricket in the flesh for the first time."
"His were, in fact, just a few of all manner of inquiries asked by confused spectators over the course of the Sunday afternoon from English families wondering why they had unexpectedly stumbled across a scene reminiscent of home, to baffled east Asians taking photos of a strange sporting spectacle, the likes of which they had never witnessed before. We were rather difficult to avoid."
A spontaneous cricket match in Corfu attracted a mix of local players and tourists, staged visibly in Spianada Square near the Old Fortress. A ten-year-old American named Jake, whose English father had loved cricket before dying in a car crash three years earlier, encountered the match while on holiday with his mother and became entranced. Jake, who sometimes watches cricket clips on YouTube to learn, asked many questions about the ball, bat, and scoring. Spectators included English families surprised by a slice of home and east Asian visitors photographing the unfamiliar spectacle, drawn by the match's prominent location and autumn sun.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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