Y'all've got me wondering: how, then, do announcers of cricket games fill the presumably long stretches of otherwise vacant airtime?

If you come over here this (or next) Summer you will see how exciting cricket can actually be. Blink and you could miss some spectacular play!! There are very few stretches between play, btw. Usually fifteen minutes tea in the evening and half an hour lunch during the day.

Afterwards, you, me and Faldage can retire to Mulligan's for scoops, as promised.