“Read about Surrey and Yorkshire-he had held out that copper millions of times. Surrey was all out once more” (p162). Surrey and Yorkshire are two of the eighteen cricket teams in the Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Cricket is very similar to baseball, but less formal. A “bowler” bowls a ball to a batter, who tries to hit it as far as he can. A team gets one point every time a batter runs to a marked distance and back without getting out. Innings in cricket can take up to several hours and are intended to have refreshment breaks in between. In her novel Woolf references cricket: a sport commonly played in England. She uses examples of English traditions to emphasize the importance of her novel taking place in England.
“What is Cricket?" WiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions. Web. 29 Sept. 2009. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-cricket.htm.
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But why is it important? What is it about Cricket that matters to the story? Why is it important that this is an English novel and not a German, Spanish, or American one?
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