
Two sets of three sticks, called wickets, are set in the ground at each end of the pitch. The field is oval with a rectangular area in the middle, known as the pitch, that is 22 yards (20.12 metres) by 10 feet (3.04 metres) wide. But as I discovered when I attempted to learn the rules of American football by playing " Madden NFL '16" back in the day, sometimes you're just better off not knowing. Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing sides (teams) of 11 players. I suppose I could look up the answers to these questions. My only knowledge of cricket comes from Douglas Adams' classic novel "Life, The Universe, and Everything." None of those answers were covered in those pages. Why does missing a ball smash the sticks behind the cricket? Isn't that wasteful? Why do you and another cricket spend time running back and forth along the beige area when you hit the ball? Why do you turn into a duck if you don't swing at all? Is this whole thing just one big pun? Doodle Cricket is a Google Doodle Game that was released in 2017 to celebrate the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament. But why are the other team snails? Is this a pun I'm missing?

Now is the part where I tell you that nothing else about this makes any sense to me.

Okay, so those last two sentences encompass everything about this game that I, an American, seem capable of understanding. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
