Have just updated “Conversations with a Swede”, an ongoing post of emails between myself and a Swedish friend who lives in China. He has been learning to love cricket thanks to Twenty20 being beamed into China, and over the past six months has been slowly learning about Test cricket.
The post follows our exchanges as he continues his journey to enlightenment and the knowledge that Test cricket is the ultimate, best and finest form of the game.
Read on here: http://replaycricket.com/discussions-with-a-swede/
Your correspondence with your Swedish friend makes for fascinating reading; maybe if New Zealand switched their current Test from Dunedin to Stockholm they would attract more spectators!
By the way, when he talks about his understanding of extras, what do you think he means by ‘black hole’?