Posted on 12/10/2023 5:16:39 PM PST by libh8er
We’re exhausted from cheering on the curling teams and watching soccer (football) and now they expect us to have energy for cricket, too?π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯β½β½β½β½
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Wake me. up when it’s over. The one Brit sport I really like is Rugby. Apparently has no rules and is great fun to watch. Even my daughter, whose husband died two weeks earlier, laughed with me when we watched.
So, my sports are golf, figure skating, and rugby.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a cricket match once, maybe. I’ve certainly seen it mentioned often enough in English books I’ve read.
25-30 years ago, ESPN used to air Aussie Rules Football.
THAT stuff was fun to watch!
they have enough for 20 teams, and yet, this is the first time it’s in the news???
Very popular in India too .
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I gave up football for rugby and boxing for sumo and never looked back. Cricket? Don’t know about that one; the most I ever saw of it was in “King Ralph” and an episode of The Prisoner. So unless the ball blows up or some guy slugs it into the stands, probably not.
Oh, I had no idea what the rules were, it was just fun to watch!
All the fans are Indians?
True, but I’ve read lots more books by English authors than Indian.
They used to be. Now they are the Guardians.
There’s a cricket team in Compton, Calif., a college town south of Los Angeles that is said to be the only cricket team whose members are all American-born. They do frequent tours of places like the UK and Australia, places where cricket is popular, probably because potential opponents in the US are hard to find.
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Did they come fried? With butter?
Biff, you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-vicket American person
Years ago I saw part of an interview (IIRC it was with Letterman) in which John Cleese tried to explain cricket to the audience. It was hysterical!
Probably many Pakistanis. It was big in Imperial India, which included Pockeestahn.
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