I remember once thinking that a game of cricket was about the two batters hitting the ball up and down, trying to hit each others wickets, and the fielders were only there to retrieve the ball.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg
- I used to belive that the New Years ball exploded, and people who were near it died.— Angela
- I used to believe that eye-lash curlers were eye-ball eating aliens in disguise— Eliza