The Reader Travels

We took our little dog for a walk in the park last weekend, and as we were leaving, I looked out the window and said, “Golly, are those men playing cricket?” And indeed, they were.

Cricket may have originated in England, but it comes to Dallas/Fort Worth by way of India. Certainly, imperialism has its evils, but a world of common language and common sports can be a beautiful thing.

It makes me think of the movie Lagaan, if only because it’s about British people teaching Indian people how to play cricket. The story itself is a classic sports tale of underdogs beating their oppressors, all with the color, music, energy and long-lasting entertainment of Bollywood.

It was a strange thing for me to see cricket in Texas, so I had to look it up to find out how widespread the sport is here. It seems that lots of people are playing cricket in the Big D. And suddenly, I’m having the urge to buy the world a Coke, but only the kind you can buy outside of the US in places where they don’t put high fructose corn syrup in everything.

What a world.

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