Russell Crowe

And the idea is that both teams have to bat and bowl twice.

And the result will be whatever it is at the end of five days.

Five days, man.

Five full days.

And they start, and then they have morning tea, and then they have another break.

They have lunch, and then they have afternoon tea.

And if it's really hot every now and then, somebody will walk out and give them drinks.

It's very civilized.

My cousin Martin was a great cricket player.

He was the captain of New Zealand.

My other cousin Jeffrey was also a captain of New Zealand.

So I kind of grew up in a cricketing family, and it was one of the pathways for me that was potentially play cricket.

But when you've got two of your cousins who are as good as they were, it's a very crowded room.

So how am I going to make any kind of statement here when one of them, Martin, at his peak, he was called by Sports Illustrated, I believe, the Michael Jordan of world cricket.

Wow.

He was a very dominant player in his day.

And he used to call, we used to discuss test matches as the gentleman's war.

Because you have a defined space.

You have X amount of players.

And you've got to stop that little ball in this gigantic 180-meter by 120-meter oval.