Don't worry, we'll still enjoy our cricket

On Mar 23, 10:07 am, "Pat" <P...@faraway.com> wrote:
> "Earl Evleth" <> In the IHT this morning. Making fun of the Americans> and their disregard for cricket. Well written.
>
> Some Americans may not like cricket, but I don't ever remember any Americans
> strangling a coach to death for losing any type of ball game.


It's really ironic that completely non-violent sports like soccer and
cricket are the ones with the fan violence. I've never heard of any
fan violence in hockey or Ultimate Fighting.

"Earl Evleth" <> In the IHT this morning. Making fun of the Americans
> and their disregard for cricket. Well written.
>
>
Some Americans may not like cricket, but I don't ever remember any Americans
strangling a coach to death for losing any type of ball game.

> In any event, nothing about cricket seems suited to the American national
> character: its rich complexity, the infinite possibilities that could occur
> with each delivery of the ball, the dozen different ways of getting out, are
> all patterned for a society of endless forms and varieties, not of a
> homogenized McWorld.

Not entirely true is it? I remember a team of American inner-city young
black cricket players visiting the UK a couple of years ago. Played a
match at The Oval I seem to remember.

On Mar 23, 1:17 pm, Mike O'Sullivan <m...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> > In any event, nothing about cricket seems suited to the American national
> > character: its rich complexity, the infinite possibilities that could occur
> > with each delivery of the ball, the dozen different ways of getting out, are
> > all patterned for a society of endless forms and varieties, not of a
> > homogenized McWorld.


You could say the same for soccer. Most Americans think it's boring
because they rarely score.

> Not entirely true is it? I remember a team of American inner-city young
> black cricket players visiting the UK a couple of years ago. Played a
> match at The Oval I seem to remember.


Some Americans play cricket, but very, very few. Virtually no one
outside of immigrant and expat communities plays it or knows anything
about it. You see it sometimes in the parks in New York, which has
large Caribbean and South Asian communities. Overall though, cricket
is about as marginal in the US as baseball and American football are
in Europe.

> Americans are always yelling "kill the umpire".
>
> The Americans have something called "sports rage"

Um, Earl, yelling "kill the umpire" is not the same as doing it! Get a grip!

>>
>>or Rugby
>
> Seriously? Ever been to a match? :-)
>
> Cheers, Alan, Australia

I don't know about fan violence in Rugby, but I used to know a guy who had a
steel rod inserted in his radius to repair a break and as soon as he was
healed, he was out playing Rugby again....

Pat in TX

> Some Americans play cricket, but very, very few. Virtually no one
> outside of immigrant and expat communities plays it or knows anything
> about it. You see it sometimes in the parks in New York, which has
> large Caribbean and South Asian communities. Overall though, cricket
> is about as marginal in the US as baseball and American football are
> in Europe.

Well, why not? I think you'll find that the sports ones play as children are
the ones that are the most popular for adults--either to play or watch.
It's that way all over the world.

Pat in TX
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