We were in Cambridge for sabbatical in 1989, and both me and my wife came down with some kind of flu immediately upon settling into our flat. So for a week, I had nothing to do but watch British TV, which consisted at that time of three channels, BBC1 and 2, and some independent channel. And it was in the middle of the Ashes. Sooo, BBC 1 AND 2 both had live cricket, and the other station had some sort of soap opera kind of junk all day long. So I watched cricket.
This would have been fine (I came to love county cricket later on, or any cricket with a defined number of overs to the game), except that England was SO far behind Australian that they had decided they had no chance of winning. So they adopted the strategy of keeping alive until time ran out....something like the next DAY. The English batsmen just defended the wicket, attempting to tick any dangerous ball off to the side, without trying for runs. Realizing this, Australia put all its field players in a tight circle around the wicket, in hopes that an English batsman might accidentally tick the ball into the air, where Australia could catch it for an out.
I have to tell you, it was boring me rigid. :)
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Recourse against those Failing to Pause Games
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