What’s common to football and cricket?
They both have eleven players on each side.
Other than this striking similarity,
both games show contrasts aplenty.
While football is played by nations many,
cricket is played by not too many.
Football is fast with frenzied activity.
In contrast cricket can be slow and steady.
A sheer ninety minutes is what a football game
They both have eleven players on each side.
Other than this striking similarity,
both games show contrasts aplenty.
While football is played by nations many,
cricket is played by not too many.
Football is fast with frenzied activity.
In contrast cricket can be slow and steady.
A sheer ninety minutes is what a football game
takes;
while five long days is what a cricket match might take.
The football game is incredibly simple with fewer rules
but cricket is played with too many rules.
A football game needs just an open stretch of land,
a ball and a few sticks as a goal post to get started.
In cricket, the joys of batting, scoring fours and sixes,
bowling and fielding remain unparalleled.
With cricket, there’s too much fuss and hype
while football is a game of the serious type.
With cricket, the euphoria takes longer to subside.
In a football game, the excitement you can hardly hide.
While a football game can be exhilarating,
a cricket match can be scintillating.
While match fixing may be rampant in cricket,
in football it is believed to be non-existent.
In cricket every falling wicket
results in a sigh or delightful cry.
In football, too every goal scored
is accompanied by a joyous cry or sigh.
