If you’re thinking about packing your bags and emigrating to Australia from the UK, then you’ll need to do barely any cultural re-adjustment.Life in Australia is, pretty much, the same as it is in western Europe.There’s a longstanding tradition of individual liberty and democracy, and every spends their weekends drinking with friends.

One thing that is ever-so-slightly different, however, is sports.While football, as we Britons know it, is a popular pastime, it’s nowhere near as popular as some of the other sports that dominate the Australian calendar.Let’s take a look at some of these sports, and see how new arrivals to the country might blag their way through a conversation about them.

Cricket

Cricket is widely-considered the national sport of Australia, since, unlike the other sports popular in this part of the world, Cricket is both played and watched in every corner of the country – from the urban …