Quick quiz for everyone...which country has won more first class cricket matches against Australia?
1. United States of America
2. Bangladesh
Posted on 07/11/2006 6:12:15 AM PDT by BaBaStooey
WINDIES XI MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF US PROMOTIONAL SERIES by CMC 10 July 2006 20:38
BROOKLYN, New York - A star-studded West Indies XI made a clean sweep of their two-match series against the United States with contrasting wins over the weekend at the Floyd Bennett Cricket Field.
While they snatched a narrow five-run win in the first game on Saturday, they powered their way to an emphatic six-wicket victory on Sunday, with captain Brian Lara and Chris Gayle hammering half centuries.
Batting first in the opening 40-overs game, West Indies made 214 for six which was due largely to a polished 70 from Ramnaresh Sarwan, who hit five fours in his 83-ball knock.
Lara made 36, with two fours and a six, before former Windward Islands left-arm pacer Mike Alexis prised out the genius left-hander as he attempted to hoist him out of the ground
Chris Gayle hammered 23 including a six and a four in adding 43 for the first wicket with Darren Ganga who made 17.
Shrivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Smith both chipped in with 21.
Imran Awan, the Pakistini-born opening bowler, snatched three Windies scalps - Sarwan, Chanderpaul and Smith -- for 39 runs while Alexis ended with two for 31.
In reply, Jamaican-born Rashard Marshall, relative of Jamaica and West Indies batsman, Xavier Marshall cracked a pugnacious, undefeated 90 to bring the United States close to reaching their target.
He added a valuable 115 for the sixth wicket with captain Steve Massiah whose 58 came from 104 balls.
They came together with the US in a spot of bother on 94 for five, but Marshall blasted seven fours and two sixes in just 56 balls, including 16 runs in a Wavell Hinds' over, to engineer the US recovery.
With the US requiring 17 runs for victory from the last over, Lara sent down his leg-spin conceding 11 runs while accounting Massiah's wicket.
In the second game on Sunday, Lara hammered 70 off just 43 balls, including nine fours and three mammoth sixes as the West Indies, chasing a target of 234 for eight, reached 237 for four off 30 overs.
Lara was joined by Gayle who blazed 62 off 33 balls, hoisting six massive sixes and four fours, including three successive sixes off former Trinidad and Tobago national player Glen Lorick's first over.
Lorick's first over, the last of the match, conceded 30 runs.
Cricket: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.
When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.
There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
http://ozguru.mu.nu/archives/2005/01/cricket.html
Canada has qualified for the next Cricket World Cup in 2007 and has one-day international status.
Ok.
Never seen them in the Cricket World Cup before, nor even seen them play in England before.
Maybe things have changed.
Soccer is a third world /Asian/ eurotrash game that is out of place in the good old USA!
I watched my kids play it when they were small and it was cute with little kids running around like monkeys (and good exercise for them too) but it ends there(at least for me).
one Mr McCartney from the other side of the pond is a big NY Yankee's fan (thank to his late wife, Linda, from Connecticut) and can often be seen in the good seats at playoff/world series games.
Haverford College: perennial dominance in US collegiate cricket
http://www.haverford.edu/athletics/Cricket/index.htm
How many crickets were lost in the match?
I play Cricket with some Indian friends on the weekend. Having played basebal, its not too bad a transition, although I still don't know the rules very well.
You've shattered my illusions.
Oh, well, there is no disputing of tastes.
In the1960s, Pete Dawkins, one of the most celebrated graduates of West Point, won a Rhodes Scholarship, went to Oxford, and became a very capable cricketer.
The older I get, the more I get into ALL sports. Over the last ten or fifteen years, I have become a fan of NASCAR, Aussie Rules football, cricket and soccer, after years of only enjoying the major sports followed in America. (I also have to admit, I enjoy watching events of IFOCE, the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Glad to see that the US has finally found a hotdog eater in the same league as Kobiashi of Japan).
Just south of Seattle, there's a fairly intense NW cricket league, comprised mostly of Microsoft employees imported from India and Pakistan. They make up quite a few sides.
I can almost understand the mechanics of play, but it's the scoring that gets confusing.
It's sorta like baseball, only with no foul ground and you don't have to run on contact.
For the helluvit, if they had beer and decent lawn seating, I could take in a One Day. How matches run over several days I have no idea, though there are a few "Cricket for Baseball Fans" links on the Net.
Looks like something to try, at least once. Being a bowler (running start, no bending of the elbow) could be kinda fun, because you generally bounce it up instead of blowing it past.
I wish ESPN would at least once in awhile show cricket and maybe some Aussie Rules. I mean, they are showing dominos now. I have no problem with that, but I would think there are as many cricket fans in the US as dominos fans.
ESPN should start a poker channel if they think there's a market for something like that. Yes, "sports" like card games, Scrabble, chess, and dominoes involve strategy, just like most sports. But at least rugby, cricket, and Aussie Rules are played with a ball! And there is running involved!
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