Three Team Cricket

Sandy.

George.

You look a bit confused.

Well, I've just beeen reading about this new South African thing.  They've got 3 Teams playing each other at the same time.

3 teams? How does that work?

Well, one team bats and one team bowls.

But what about the other team?

Well it bats when the team that's batting bowls.  And when they've bowled half their overs they bat until the team that was wasn't batting bowls.  And the team that wasn't bowling bats and when they've all bowled half their overs they do it again except the team wasn't batting bowls unless the team that was batting has scored scored most runs.  And the team that wasn't batting bowls half its overs.

I thought they'd already bowled half their overs.

That was the other half. 

Of course.  So let me get this right.  The team that's batting isn't bowling and the team that isn't bowling will bowl half its overs at the team that isn't batting.

No, it can't bowl half its overs if it isn't bowling.  It must be the other half of its overs that it's bowling.

Unless it's the team that's batting.

But what about the team that isn't batting?

It must be bowling.

But you just said it was the team that wasn't bowling.

That was the other half of the overs.

Which half?

The half that they haven't bowled.

OK that sounds simple.

That's what I thought.