Metric cricket

I suppose it couldn’t last. Europe is finally abolishing the acre, a measure of how much land could be ploughed by one man and an ox in a day, in favour of the hectare, which is a thousandth of a percent of the distance from the equator to the North Pole through Paris, squared. Whilst wondering which measurement will be more in tune with our times and customs, I cannot help but reflect that people should use such measurements as they jolly well please.

For those confused by the new measurement, a useful comparator is that an acre is a bit more than three cricket wickets by three, whereas a hectare is a little less than five by five.