Cricket education for the birthday girl

ROUTE 1 assistant KERSTIN turned 13 today.
She emerged from the living room -- cluttered with slumbering friends following last night's sleepover -- to see what I was doing in the kitchen this morning.
I have been listening to ENGLAND v. SOUTH AFRICA on BBC Radio's TEST MATCH SPECIAL.
Kerstin and I shared an ear bud apiece and listened to the action following the lunch break.
While we listened, Kerstin asked a multitude of questions about the game, which seems so foreign until you learn it -- then, you understand how cricket and baseball really are cousins.
We heard England's Monty Panesar bowl South Africa's Neil McKenzie. South Africa are now in dire straits on day three of the five-day match -- England batted for 593 for 8 in their first innings and South Africa have been struggling, currently at 108 for 4.
On her birthday, Kerstin learned exactly what those numbers mean.