It ain't over till the fat lady calls "teatime"
Speaking of ladies, fat or otherwise, are there any women's teams in cricket?
O, never mind, I think I know the answer to that one. Women are multitasking and the game would be over before breakfast on the first day. Boring.
By the way, don't you think this women and multitasking business is just a ruse to give us men a guilty conscience whenever we are staring into the microwave to check every second of the process whether our 3-minute meal really does take three minutes to heat up, when we could have cleaned up the kitchen in the mean time? I do. I do think it's ruse. Because whenever I find my partner in the kitchen, multitasking away like a madwoman, and I try to get her attention by gently stroking her and kissing her in the nape of her neck, which amounts to adding just one tiny task to the list, she just can't handle it. Multitasking? Bollocks. And sorry for the digression.
Yes in cricket they do still call the two daily intervals "lunch" and "tea" respectively. I realise this must seem very "twee".
Don't worry, it really can't be twee enough for me. The ultimate Englishness of it all is the thing I like best about cricket - as far as I know the details, that is.