Cricket

 

Cricket was something I heard a lot about in the era of Geoff Boycott although apart from playing the simplified "French Cricket" variant with my younger brother on hols in t shirts and short games shorts, I never did cricket.

The Two Mark's at boarding school were massively into it though memorizing the daily scores, watching by permission bits of the Test Matches on the common room tv during breaks or putting the radio onto BBC Radio Four test match special to catch up in that pre-internet era.

If I were to had played it, I'd sooner had done so in a games skirt or skort.

Some girls did play cricket usually at Prep Schools but that was very much a minority thing back then although that's starting to change.