smile people, cricket is still funny

People are taking cricket a little too seriously at the moment.

The Indians are mad at the Australians and West Indian umpires.

The South Africans are furious at the West Indies.

The English hate wicket keepers.

The New Zealanders are angry at their own.

And the Kenyan team is in hiding.

So I thought I’d lighten the mood.

Here is my top ten reasons to be thankful for cricket.

10. Fat people can play. Although some of them cheat.

9. It’s a summer sport, where women wear revealing tops in the crowd, male camera men find these women and bring them into our home via the television. Great invention the television.

8. Rather than stalking victims and becoming a serial killer, Andre Nel becomes a fast bowler.

7. The greatest sport for sexual innuendo, nothing funnier than Ian Chappell talking about the batsman being a good puller.

6. VVS Laxman could have been saving sick children, instead he lifts our spirit with his wrist work. Those pesky kids can look after themselves.

5. Remember the time Allan Donald almost killed the emir of somewhere with oil in a world cup. How funny was that.

4. If it wasn’t for cricket, we would never have seen Chris Gayle, as if he could be bothered playing soccer. I don’t think I could live in a Chris Gayle free world.

3. Name another sport where 6 foot 5 black men would play in pink uniforms and still be feared. That Kerry Packer was a brave yet odd man.

2. If cricket wasn’t a sport, we’d have to find something else to pick on England about.

1. We wouldn’t know Tony Greig was a pervert.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"