One of the subjects discussed at the Church Congress at home recently was the brightening up of Sunday and the debate thereon might have passed unnoticed but for the unfortunate cleric who denounced cricket as "the laziest game on earth." If he succeeded in nothing else he roused a newspaper controversy. Of course cricket is a lazy game. The field stands round waiting for a chance to run after the ball, and save for the bowler, batsmen' and wicketkeeper the players have more or less of an easy time—in the sense that they are not always on_the run as in tennis or football. How exactly it should be enlivened to meet the clerical critic's point of view it is hard to say, though if the field were given skipping ropes to while away the hours it might make up in wasted energy what it at present loses in comparative inaction. But there are very few players who will agree with the dictum quoted above. There is plenty of hard work both in playing the game and practising for it, and if cricket is a lazy game, what about horse-riding? There the devotee sits down to it.
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