Apparently this is the Twenty20 world championship, which is a form of cricket where the matches are over in about 3 hours. If this were regularly on tv, I could probably get into it, but I still only barely know the rules.
My wife and I were watching this, and we agreed this is what American football must look like to Europeans. The fans were pretty jazzed, and there were some great plays being made. The best part was when the TV would explode with "WICKET!" like the old Batman TV show fight scenes.