World Cup Cricket

We (especially Peter) have been enjoying watching the World Cup Cricket - on our (new) big TV and with the coverage provided by Fox Sports on Digiturk - Digiturk is worth it if just for the cricket!

The other night there was a very exciting match between the Top-Dog Aussies and fairly worthy rivals South Africa.

But at the same time, on another channel, there was a football (well, soccer) match between Turkey and arch-rivals Greece. Knowing that this would be a hot conversation topic in the classrooms in the weeks to come, we wanted to keep up with that one too.

Gotta love the inventor of the remote control ... !

Every time we switched across to the football match, they seemed to be going crazy over another goal - it was a brilliant match: Turkey smashed Greece 4-0 ... remarkably lively for a game of soccer! Our students - and everyone here - are delighted of course.

But what about the cricket - what do our students think about the cricket?

Do they even play cricket in Turkey?

Until the other day we would have said 'no' - they don't even seem to know what it is.

Then we saw THIS!

Maybe they are just waiting for their wickets to grow ...