By: Fabian Munir

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Many who have had any kind of experience with the law would know how boring it can be. Many who do not understand the game of cricket would maintain that it, too, is boring. Thus, for many, there could be few constellations more tedious than those where cricket collides with the law. How wrong they are.

Imagine the following situation: a village cricket field upon which the game has been played for half a century or more. Adjacent to the ground is some vacant land which is eventually sold off, developed and purchased by a man and his wife.

For reasons known only to this couple, they are not fans of cricket. Yet now, whenever local matches are played, they are forced to endure the tock – and sometimes even the thwack – of leather upon willow. Peaceful Sunday afternoons are pierced by batsmen’s calls of “wait” or fielders’ cries of “catch it”. To the homeowners’ minds, this racket is insufferable; one man’s music is another’s cacophony.

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