The cynical cricketer

Ernie knew his brain power was considerably less then Jack’s, but he took solace in the fact that he was still better at sports. He thinks that this can be used to trick Jack.

The next day, Jack came upon a stand. 

ERNIE’S CRICKET BOWLING TONIC

Jack looked at Ernie brandishing ten bottles of colourful liquid.

Ernie shouted: “Look here! This is the Tonic to end all of your pitching woes! It accelerates the ball by 100 mph.”

He held a baseball in his hand oddly.

He particularly looked at Jack, who once gave away 6 wides in a single over.

Ernie thrust a boy forward, Jacob, who seemed to slightly dislike the fact that it was about cricket and not baseball.

“Jacob here threw a baseball at 60 mph.”

Ernie went into a pitching motion.

“Now I gave him the tonic, and he threw so hard the hide was ripped off the ball!”

He loosened his grip on the ball and the hide fell off the ball. 

The gathered audience clapped. 

“Why, even Jack here could bowl someone out one day!”

Everyone laughed heartily.

 “Get yourself two glasses for the price of one for the next 5 hours!”

Jack said firmly to Ernie: “You know this is fake, right?”

HOW DID JACK KNOW?