In Oz, if not just saying 'handwriting', one might see 'cursive'...

"when the sports reporter announces cricket results, I am completely lost."

There is a version of cricket - now popularized as 'Beach Cricket' and also a slightly different form called 'Indoor Cricket' based on an old backyard variant called 'tip and run' or 'hit and run', where if you hit the ball you must run - sorta like baseball with a different shaped field ... :-)


Typo detected "There is a version of fricket" ... yeah, ... :-)