Posted on 07/14/2023 4:07:15 AM PDT by Libloather
Cricket doesn’t have a chance in this country just as surely as the NFL doesn’t have a chance in Europe.
Yeah,,,but they can’t turn a 6 4 3 double play...
That’s not cricket.
Will there be tea and strumpets?
Been watching The Ashes between England and Australia. I am totally hooked on it. Once you learn the rules and who the players are, and there’s also a lot of “gamesmanship” going on.
Can you catch a hard cricket ball without a glove?
If it had a different name I would think it would have takin off already. Americans have thought “Gay” immediately after hearing the name for years... ...years prior to gay being a heavy fad...
Another new league that's starting is a Team Handball league.
It’s mainly the Indians who are the Cricket supporters here in the US.
If your uniform consists of a sweater vest it’s probably not a real sport.
Lol...
Speak for yourself. I know nobody who thinks that. "Foreign", certainly. "Gay"??? That's just stupid.
When I was in my youth I used to live in Southeast Asia with my parents who were working rural electrification projects around the country of Thailand. Thailand had a lot of British influences for some odd reason, all my instructors at elementary school the British and at gymnasium we played British games mixed with fastpitch softball and track and field. But we learned how to play cricket and I also learned how to play soccer. When I move back to the States I didn’t know how to play football or basketball and I really didn’t care cuz by that time I was at the tennis but it was different growing up in that athletic atmosphere stemming from the empire.
I like watching a good game of cricket to this day and I also have a particular affinity for Scottish shinty. Darts anyone?
Reminds me of when I lived in Karachi back in 1965. My dad sent me out with my baseball glove to play cricket with the kids in the vacant lot next-door. Talk about awkward…
My neighborhood has a lot of families from India, they play Cricket in the street using Tennis balls.
Cricket could easily become my favorite sport.
Imagine telling Mrs Con I am headed out to catch a cricket match......only to return 5 days later sunburned and horribly hungover.
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Agree. It was all there was to watch sometimes in some places I traveled and I was surprised at how entertaining it was. Same with the Sumo tournaments in Japan. The British Colony of actors in 1930’s Hollywood had their own club.
For me T20 and ODI is too Baseball-like. Test Cricket is a completely different animal.
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