[normblog] of death and cricket

Norm’s in fine form today: [C]ricket more than any other sport helps a person work through the experience of loss by virtue of forcing its participants to come to terms with symbolic deaths on a daily basis. It's an idea Mike Brearley says he's been forced to reconsider. It kind of goes with Chess and the Dance of Death, though I must say I'd never previously thought of losing one's wicket in quite that way. Makes you think, doesn’t it? What makes me think even more is why [c]ricket was spelt that way.