British sports

Name of the sport Characteristics Population groups
Cricket
• The very English association
• Judging by numbers of people who play and watch it – not the national sport
• Symbolises a slow, peaceful, rural way of life
• Combines competition with the British dream of rural life
• ‘Green village’ sport
• ‘First class’ cricket teams bear the names not of towns but of counties
• Millions of radio listeners or TV viewers
• Played on grass by a team of 11 players
• Players score points called runs, by hitting a ball with a wooden bat and running between 2 sets of vertical wooden sticks, called stumps
• Various playing times: from 5 hours to several …