Playing Ball Games In The Datacenter Was Obviously Stupid, But We Had To Win The League
The Register, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and celebrate escapes.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Frank" who told us a story he heard from a boss who worked at a datacenter located in a country where cricket is a popular sport.
Your correspondent has long and bitter experience of trying and failing to explain the rules of cricket to folks who didn't grow up with the game. Suffice to say it involves one player propelling a ball that's a little smaller and harder than a baseball toward another player who wields a substantial oblong wooden bat, which when wielded well can send the ball over 100 meters through the air at speeds exceeding 150 km/h.