Uncyclopedia:Featured articles/October 30

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- ABC-TV was celebrating a huge ratings victory today, after almost half the United States watched its live coverage of the World Twenty20 Final of cricket, in which Chris Gayle's West Indies beat Mahela Jayawardene's Sri Lanka by 36 runs, 2 legs, 4 sets, 6 holes and a chimney.

The coverage, which began when a disgruntled Pakistani technician on his last day at the network decided to hook up an illegal internet stream to every house in America, quickly became a televisual sensation, aided by excitement generated on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, where the hash tags #Whatisthisshit? and #Whobrokebaseball began to trend.

The initial tide of bemusement turned when "Windies" captain Gayle did a Gangnam style dance after a Sri Lankan batsman had been asked to resign. The entire nation, famed for its instinctive warmth towards black people, began cheering the Caribbeans on, and was rewarded with some exciting if inexplicable action. (Full article...)