A frustrated NRL fan has found himself being invested in the UK County Championship.
After watching his team lose again, Nathan (who chose not to reveal his team out of embarrassment) decided to watch some YouTube to distract himself.
He saw a stream for a County game on the Lancashire Cricket TV YouTube channel, clicked out of curiosity, and was quickly hooked.
While Nathan isn’t the biggest cricket fan (though he enjoys watching the Test matches every summer), he was quickly invested by the County game’s relaxed pace.
“It had an oddly calming vibe, the commentary was good, and had an easy rhythm to it. No commercial BS, just straightforward red ball cricket. And it’s free! How good?” said Adam.
He became so engrossed that he stayed up until the early hours of the morning watching the game. The following night, he completely ignored the footy and switched on the Lancashire game at 8pm on the dot for another all-nighter.
After ‘liking’ the Lancashire Facebook page and exploring their website, Adam has already made notes of all of Lancashire’s County games on his phone, and changed his Facebook profile page to the Lancashire CCC logo, which saw his footy mates give him a bit of grief, but he didn’t care.
“My great-grandmother was born in Burnley, so being a Lancashire fan was in my blood all along,” said Adam, conveniently ignoring the fact he didn’t even care about Lancashire – or English domestic cricket – until this weekend. Or even knew about his grand-grandparents’ heritage until he’d asked texted his dad while watching the County game.
“Footy’s a bloody joke now! V’landys destroyed it with all his dumb rule changes. County Cricket is a pure form of cricket. Nothing can ruin it! I also can’t wait for the English Tests against New Zealand, India, and South Africa to start!”
Adam’s in the process of throwing out all his NRL gear to make room for the $500 worth of Lancashire training tops, jerseys, hats, and jumpers he’s ordered.
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