Cricket: The Untucked Version.
Thank you, cricketers. While you go and untuck your shirts on the field, the YouTube livestream chat will deliberate. (This is a RuPaul's Drag Race reference - not sure how much crossover I'll have between cricket and Drag Race but HELLO if you get it) So on the County Cricket Season eve, I have decided to bring the blog back out. Last week, Somerset played Worcestershire in one of their pre-season games. As a keen supporter, I avidly watched the livestream that was organised (amazingly well) by Somerset CCC. While I'm in no way a cricket aficionado, I enjoy participating in online cricket discourse: most of the time this just results in memes and shitposts. Alongside the livestream, however, the chat was popping - but not necessarily with the cricket fan discourse you would expect. Person A (whose username I cannot remember) complained that some of the Worcestershire side had their shirts untucked - this complaint was partially supported by the commentary team. Person B (...