Wikipedia crashes as the Irish race to look up the word “Cricket”

Silicon Valley, CA.  Officials at Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, were left looking for some explanations themselves yesterday when the site spectacularly crashed.  “At around 5pm GMT yesterday, there was a sudden surge on the site.”, explained senior WikiBoffin Jason Stimms, “With the way the site is constructed it’s not easy to say exactly what caused the problem, but it would appear that at the same time as the site crashed there was a sudden and massive surge in searches for the word cricket”.  Although unwilling to be drawn on the reasons behind the surge Mr. Stimms did point out that the site hadn’t seen such a cataclysmic spike in traffic since the Irish cricket team beat Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup back in 2007.  “Back in ’07 we eventually worked out that the Irish people were almost completely unaware that they even had a cricket team, let alone how to play the game.  So when they beat one of the cricket Superpowers there was a sudden rush for information so that everyone could make like they’d known about it all along, not look like they were just jumping on the bandwagon as soon as the team had some real success and then blag their way through the rest of the tournament.”  The millionaire nerd went on to explain, “I guess back in ‘07 most people didn’t even know there was a Cricket World Cup.  This time round though, everybody knows about it, right? I mean everybody knows there’s a team, right?  They couldn’t have just forgotten.  And when you Irish go up against England everybody knows about it, right?  So I have to say that this time around we’re completely at a loss”.