A blank folded paper rests beside a floral teacup, a red cricket ball and a green sprig.

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Maxim de Winter

Have a look at "The Times"; there's a thrilling article on what's the matter with English cricket!

— Rebecca

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker recommends reading The Times and calls its English cricket article thrilling. The overstatement makes a newspaper recommendation sound like a major attraction, while the subject is deliberately ordinary. The humor rests on that inflated description of a small diversion.

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