THE Dulwich Despatch Summer 2023
Cricket: The Good, The Bad and The Downright Dangerous
Cricket is an exceptionally good sport for learning about how to use teamwork to help people, writes Sebastian Hoo (Y7). Teamwork is one of the key skills needed to thrive in cricket, so cricket players must practise being kind to others, even when situations are hard. Cricket also has particularly good health benefits, such as improved cardiovascular fitness, hand - eye coordination, and strength. These are all immensely helpful in later life. Cricket also releases endorphins, which are natural mood elevators,
and can improve overall mental health and reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Cricket can also boost the immune system, reducing the risk of illness and disease. Cricket is extremely exciting because it can be all down to the last ball, and no - one (excluding the umpire) knows the score.
Illustration by Leo Spencer (Y7)
Cricket, however, has limited participation because it is mainly between India, Australia and England. It is a colonial sport and there is sadly a lot of racism in the history of cricket. The equipment needed for cricket is extremely expensive which means that people with less money cannot afford to take part in the game. A cricket match is extremely long because it takes about eight hours. As a spectator or parent of a player, one will get extremely bored after about one hour. Cricket is easily affected by rain, which makes it ridiculously hard to play in places like England where it rains frequently. You also need staff to serve the extensive needs of a cricket match. Cricket is, as a sport, extremely dangerous as the ball, which is being thrown exceptionally fast by the bowler, is quite hard and can easily injure someone. Pupil Librarians — more fun than you might imagine! We first started being librarians when we heard about the tie and badge you can earn . Since then we have really enjoyed it and have kept going. There are multiple jobs you can take part in including cataloguing and shelving books, and other rarer jobs like preparing for author talks and delivering books. Why do it? You get a tie and a badge. To get these prizes, you must complete a number of tasks. A task can be anything that I mentioned above or other things you do for the library. Once you have done 15 jobs you get a librarian badge and when you get to 30, you get the tie! The jobs are also very fun. Together, we created bookmarks for DC I AM month which are currently in the library. These were fun to create. Thomas White and Oliver Crangle (Y7)
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