I rarely bother to click Google's interactive doodles, but yesterday's (June 13, 2017) confounded me.  Why did Atom Ant replace his cool suit with a striped cape, and why is he swatting away a cannonball before it squashes a fence?  After reading the narrative, I discovered that it's not Atom Ant in a new cape.  It's a chirpy cricket.  And that's not a cannonball; it's a cricket ball.  Upon further inspection, I did recognize it, having slogged a few around in my youth, but if you live outside India, Pakistan, and a few British Commonwealth countries, it looks more like a cannonball.    The doodle is celebrating a cricketing event known as the ICC Champions Trophy.  The narrative accompanying the Doodle exclaims, "We know that cricket is loved worldwide."  Really?  According to the article "Ranking sports' popularity" in the Sep 27, 2011 issue of The Economist, "[w]hat is...(Read Full Post)