What is "Cricket" Anyway?

At work, I have a number of coworkers who hail from former british colonies who are fanatical devotees of the game of cricket. For an American, it has been hard to avoid vacant looks and confused stares when they tried to explain the rules of the game to me. It is sort of like baseball, but not really at all like baseball. Anyway, I thought our readers might like to check out this article in Wikipedia which does the best job yet of trying to explain Britai's official sport to a Yank like me.