Kid: “Ma, I scored 100 in cricket today”
Mom: “Great, You could be like Ponting one day. Who were you playing against?”
Kid: “Playing.. No ma.. I scored 100 out of 100 in the cricket exam”
Mom: “Oh great.. You could be like that cricket blogger at Willow and Leather one day”

Amused? Read this.

Courtesy: The Australian

Cricket Australia unveiled yesterday a cricket-based educational package that has been offered to every school in the country and aims to improve children’s geographical, mathematical, language and history skills. At the same time, it aims to promote the game.

Test player Michael Hussey is a qualified teacher, but is an exception in a game where many players can boast they have “written” more books than they have read and where one player told his coach, “I don’t do books”.

However, almost every player needs to be keenly aware of the mathematical complexities of run rates and averages, the geographical conundrums posed by international competition and the cutting-edge geometry behind setting a field.

I don’t know about the cutting-edge geometry behind setting fields, but I do have a feeling that the most difficult part of the course would be something to do with calculating simulated scores using the Duckworth-Lewis method. I also do have a feeling that I would do really well in that subject. Makes me wonder what the scoring pattern would be like - 6 marks for an exceptional answer, 4 marks for a good answer, single for each objective-type question.

Kid: “But Ma, that blog exists because that blogger wasn’t good at anything else”
Mom: “Exactly!”