Pippa Middleton gives 'bizarre' explanation of cricket for Americans through Vanity Fair

The sister of the Duchess of Cambridge has reportedly given a rather bizarre explanation of cricket through a column for US magazine Vanity Fair to make the sport seem easier for Americans.

According to News.com.au, Pippa Middleton, who already has a spoof Twitter account dedicated to poking fun at her observations in her party-planning book Celebrate, has tried to explain the rules of cricket to Americans in the article headlined 'Lord's and a Lady'.

Pictured wearing a cricketer's cap, Victorian whites and equipment in a batting pose at the wicket in the article, Middleton, who is described as a 'boundary babe' in the blurb accompanying the article, has stated that a batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out, adding that it goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.

Apart from this baffling explanation, Middleton also suggests that rules do not matter in cricket, saying that in her experience as a former member of the cricket WAGs, it is safer not to pretend to know the rules and just take pleasure in the visual spectacle of the 'ageless trappings' and the 'sense of Englishness' along with the men in flannelled whites.

Middleton, who had a one-and-a-half year romance with former England all-rounder Alex Loudon, further said that she has the right credentials to 'break down the sport for the uninitiated', adding that she has many happy memories of afternoons spent lying on the grass and hearing the satisfying clunk of leather ball on willow bat.

According to Middleton, there is a tradition of the sultry cricketer powering in from the boundary, with his tousled hair blowing in the breeze, from Pakistan legend Imran Khan to England's current captain Alastair Cook.