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To most foreigners, especially those from the eastern world, such as Chinese and Japanese, cricket seems a dreadfully boring game. But English people think the sound of a wooden cricket ball striking a wooden cricket bat is just about the most beautiful sound in the town.
  The all-England cricket team is the most important one. Its players, who may be either amateur or professional, are chosen from the country cricket teams. The most important international matches are those played between England and Australia, and are held one year in one country, the next year in the other. While these matches are being played, if an Englishman says; "The news is terrible", he does not mean that an international disaster has occurred--but merely that England is not doing well at cricket.
  But to see real English cricket, a visitor should go to watch a village team. On Saturday and Sunday summer afternoons, on driving into any village; he is certain to hear the crack of a bat hitting a ball. Then presently he will come to a field or village green. All around it, sitting on the ground, on benches, or in their cars, are the people of the neighborhood. They are not saying much, but their eyes are fixed on the cricket pitch.