This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor with Jeremy Zachus, my instructor in Cricket.

But Cricket has some details that I don't pick up just looking at the rules and watching all the games.

For example, things go wrong. You learn more when things go wrong than you do when they do

when they're going right for a team.

Right now, the Australia team, remember this is

World Champions, are on a tour of New Zealand, a much smaller territory but the

Kiwis and the Azis get along now and again. This isn't quite

the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees but it's a rivalry and there's a

there's a incident that I don't know how regular it is where the New Zealand team seems to use a metaphor that's available,

Snake Bit.

Jeremy, does New Zealand have nerves

when they play Australia?

What explains this error?

John, I think certainly they must have some kind of nerves

because the error that you're talking about is something that you do see in the lower league

so you certainly when you see the younger players getting out there and actually having a go they tend to make this particular error and what this error is is basically

they are in the game between Australia and New Zealand when New Zealand was batting two

of their top players at the very top of the order so some of their first batters in

back I believe was players one and two, they had basically the batter had hit a very, very safe, safe hit to get one run and had proceeded to run because in cricket you have to run down to the other end and the that had hit the ball, I was watching where the ball went, and the other player down the other

and the other batter had begun to run, so much so that for whatever reason they didn't notice

what track they were both running on, and all of a sudden, bang, they hit each other.

They actually collide, well, mid-pitched rather,

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