We’re exhausted from cheering on the curling teams and watching soccer (football) and now they expect us to have energy for cricket, too?🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌⚽⚽⚽⚽
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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.
they have enough for 20 teams, and yet, this is the first time it’s in the news???
All the fans are Indians?
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.
Zzzz,z
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!
Actually a really smart move as there are so many Indians in America now.
Ummm ... Mr newspaper-person, exactly what do you think that the weather is like in Pakistan and India?
Uh, no. Did I tell you what the most important part is? NO.
I played this sport for two seasons in Florida with people from all over the world (usually former British colonies.) It was great! The whole gathering beyond the game itself was centered on the hospitality tent with good food and drink after the match was done. This is a pretty tough game to play also,it can be pretty dicey being a batsman and catching a hot ground shot or a fly ball takes practice as no cloves are allowed. I sincerely hope this catches on as it is far more exciting than a soccer game.
My favorite Cricket-related song:
Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-WU7RPxEw
Very few sports more boring than cricket. Maybe competition snoring. Maybe not.
There are many English people who do not like the game.
Live and let live.
(Attended my first game when I was 20 days old - September 2nd. 1939.....no more cricket for the next 6 years!)
Huh. I live in the Dallas area and this is the first I’ve heard about this!