This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor to my cricket teacher, Jeremy

Zuckus in New South Wales. Jeremy's been teaching me cricket talking to me about these

strange reports in his newspapers and the London papers about

cricket matches. We started with two ashes ago, the ashes that was won

handily by Australia in Australia during the end of the COVID.

And then last ashes, played in England,

was played to a tie, the rules being,

if it's a tie, the team that won the earlier match wins so Australia picked up two wins in a row

now the ashes are coming back to Australia but not until we deal with a phenomenon that I

never imagined would happen while I was learning cricket. Cricket comes to America.

Jeremy the blazing headline is,

America beats Pakistan at T20.

What does this mean?

How did you read that?

And what is T20 and what is Pakistan?

In short, John, this means cricket is not cricket as we know it because who would have thought

the United States could actually beat a top team like Pakistan and the world would still be all correct and happy.

Well, what this actually means is that cricket as we know it is changing it.

And T20 cricket is, as the name sounds, it's basically a cricket game that has 20 overs aside. Now an over in cricket is when the ball is

bowled six times to the batter and then at the end of that series the batter changes

ends and basically the balls bowled six times again down the other way and this goes on for 20 overs per team to bat so 40 overs across the day

which means the game's all done within about the space of four hours or so so very much like a baseball form of cricket. But the thing is that the

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