Here’s one cricket player -- Usain Bolt -- who is a really fast bowler

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Can the world’s fastest human endure the world’s slowest sport?

Absolutely, and Jamaica’s Usain Bolt showed recently that not only can he play cricket, but he actually enjoys it.

The world and Olympic record holder at 100 and 200 meters took part in a charity cricket match at Discovery Bay in Jamaica and, as this rather long and initially rather loud but atmospheric video shows, Bolt turns out to be a dab hand as a batsman and as a bowler.

‘Cricket is my first love,’ Bolt said before the game, in which he got to test his skills against some of the finest players in the cricket-mad West Indies.

How can you not enjoy a sport where they break for tea?

-- Grahame L. Jones