Posted on 07/11/2006 6:12:15 AM PDT by BaBaStooey
Americans don't have the patience to sit through a Test Match or even an ODI. Soccer will replace the NFL as America's #1 sport before cricket catches on in any meaningful sense.
We nearly won the first match by five wickets. Massiah, our captain, is a very talented batsman, and if he hadn't gotten out in that last over, we may have found those six runs for victory.
Its amazing our players are as good as they are, considering they don't have the opportunity to play as many quality international sides as often as they should.
That's no shock, since the precursor to baseball was invented in Britain, I believe. But you got to admit, it's not given the amount of press "football" is given.
"That was a wicked googly!"
The USA plays cricket!? Learn something new everyday esp on FR!
Whoopee-dang-a-ding-dong. Who cares about such obscure "sports"?
At least there is scoring in Cricket.
They have the patience to spend an entire day watching golf.
Sure, I know it will be a niche sport. But its not important that it be as popular as football or baseball. It doesn't need to be.
As long as the sport can get some media attention, and if we have a national team who can qualify for a World Cup and can at least compete with anyone, that is a pretty good goal in my opinion.
Soccer used to be where cricket is now, and now, and in 20 years, World Cups are in high definition and every match is shown, and our national team qualifies for every tournament. Would you believe that was possible 20 years ago?
the precursor of baseball was British, but it was not Cricket...it was Rounders.
I'm going to post the pictures of this event sometime later today, but I'm not expecting the pitch to look even remotely like Lord's, if that's what you're asking.
yeah and still must Americans don't give a rats @ss about Soccer either. As much as the MSM and the socialist world feels the need to try to change that.
Right, as I said, the precursor was British. I wasn't suggesting it was Cricket, sorry if I gave that impression.
I don't think 95 Americans out of 100 can even tell you what cricket is, other than having a vague idea of it as some sort of golf/baseball hybrid played with a flat bat.
LOL! The first laugh of the day!
That's like something out of a Roddy Doyle book.
"As much as the MSM and the socialist world feels the need to try to change that."
LOL!
Pipe down a bit.
Soccer is not socialist.
And it can be a lot of fun.
Baseball is sort of a combination of the two, with some American ideas thrown in there.
There are two main reasons why baseball overtook cricket in the USA.
(1) Americans want to be in charge, and they couldn't be in charge of cricket. So they poured their money into baseball (a game Americans invented and therefore could be in charge of) and developed the professional game, while cricket in America remained pretty much amateur.
(2) England shut us out of international play in the early 20th century, by forming the "world" governing body of cricket, the Imperial Cricket Council. Only England and its colonies could be members. This was mostly done because they've always had it in for us because we fought for our independence.
Prior to this, though, some English teams did tour the United States and some US teams did tour England. Australia did tour the US up through the 1930s. Don Bradman in fact visited the USA and met Babe Ruth at a match in New York City, a story which I am trying to do some more research on.
Now the Imperial Cricket Council has renamed itself the International Cricket Council and has opened itself up to all nations. The United States has also been flooded by immigrants from India, Pakistan, and the West Indies (and some from England and Australia), who play the sport. The ICC is now looking to try to tap the US market, meaning, non-immigrants like most of us.
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