>>Nothing could possibly be more interesting than that ;-) Where is it this time?
It's happening in some sort of foreign hell hole called Australia and New Zealand. ;-)
>>And the hurler had to deliver the ball with a straight arm, not bending it.
You mean the bowler? ;-) Yep. It's meant to be overarm as well, leading to the colloquial expression "underarm bowl" for something that's just not cricket (which also is a colloquial expression.)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
