I'm so used to waking up and discovering they've been bowled out somewhere in the world for 150 again. It's great that the England Test team are winning and doing well. Cricket was everywhere in Australia, in all the papers, and just more part of the culture than it is here, if we're honest.Ĭricket is taken a metaphor for life in Britain too, but in a slightly different way, almost in a way that if you don't understand the game, well, that's almost part of the point. I dropped in a cricket joke and it went down really well. I was out there seeing family and did a show. I am a bit jealous of Australian comedians. That's not a ratio that works too well!Ĭricket, in the UK at least, is widely seen as an elitist sport, or certainly one less widely understood, and so you have to rely on a much more limited cut-through. I would love to do more cricket jokes – both in my live stand-up and on Twitter – but you usually find that 10 per cent of the audience loves it, and 90 per cent have no idea what you're talking about.
I do a lot of politics videos, and cricket is one of the things I do to get away from 'stuff'. To read the full article, grab a copy of the magazine by clicking here. This is an abridged version of comedian Matt Green's 'Why I Love Cricket' article that features in our May 2023 issue. Every month in The Cricketer magazine somebody from cricket or beyond tells us why they fell in love with the game.
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