I'm John Batchel, New South Wales, Jeremy Zackas.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

Cricket, I'm learning the game.

I'm learning the pro levels, the club levels.

And there was a match underway under lights, night time.

And there were seagulls.

Where was it, Jeremy?

Well, John, this was in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, one of our most hallowed grounds there.

And it was on the lights.

It was part of the Big Bash League, which is one of our most favorite leagues here in Australia.

And effectively, what the Big Bash League is, John, is the closest thing that cricket gets to baseball, I think anywhere in the world. It's effectively a T20

style game where each team has 20 overs to bat and 20 overs to bowl. It's done very, very quickly.

There's a time limit on how long you can stay on the field, which means that in order to actually

win, what the cricket players have to do is they actually have to bash the ball over the fence.

So they have to try and get

as many sixers to increase their run rate as fast as possible. So you can imagine, John, this is actually

one of those games where you tend to see a lot of younger players out there rather than the older

stalwart that tend to be in the longer five-day test. But this is one of those games that is really,

really good because you have a lot of hits there. So this was in Melbourne, and this was one of the staple games anyone's going to watch.

Right.

Now, a palm is a very affectionate way of referring to someone from England, an Englishman.

It's based on, this is strange, and Jeremy told me me this story and if it's not true everybody

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