Are the Germans taking up cricket?

In scrabble the Russians have just marched into the western (German) Ukraine claiming that the ex-German chancellor - Otto von Bismarck promised them these four provinces in return for help in the very long Ottoman-German war. Which the Germans have indeed just claimed victory in helped by the Russians.

This resulted in conversation between a somewhat confused local German administration and the Russian Army which boiled down to the Russian saying "Are you calling my Czar a liar?" to which the reply was “Yes!” ....“Er, I mean, no. Oh I don’t know…”

This translated into English from the German would seem very very like the classic conversation between two English batsmen face to face in the middle of a run between the wickets of.........."Yes! No! Maybe?"

So are the Germans taking up cricket