Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Douglas Jardine, captain of England, 1931-34. Jardine was quoting a phrase that had previously been used by a New Zealander; as he said during that filmed sequence of the speech
"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"