when I was beginning to learn about cricket I thought the batsman at the bowlers end was there to hit the ball away from the stumps if the facing batsman hit it straight back down the pitch.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.Anon
- I used to believe that cricket ice cream used to be made out of real crickets!!!— Lt. Fuzz
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon