When Ted pretends to be British and said he played cricket and Lilly tells him he couldn't and he says "you sound like my father" is similar to an episode of Downton Abbey which Woodworthy Manor is a spoof of. In one episode there is a cricket game and a footman keeps annoying the others by showing them aspects of the game, but when it came time to play strikes out. His father tells someone he could always talk a good game of cricket he just couldn't play.
The show Ted was watching, "Woodworthy Manor", is a spoof of Downton Abbey.