When I went to London in high school, the hotel helpfully provided a 'basics of cricket' leaflet for its foreign guests. I looked at it, thought it was too confusing, and didn't bother learning anything about it at all.
Then I moved to India, where it was certainly necessary to learn the basics.
But I never thought I'd get an article published in a well-known online cricket news site!
Read it here:
Thanks to G. Rajaraman for forcing me to put my thoughts into written word form :)