Do Americans play cricket??

[Lucky_Lou]

To cheer up our freinds down under the England cricket team are allowing the west indies to thrash them lulling our aussie freinds into thinking there going to keep the ashes this summer [smiley=grin.gif]

that got me wondering why our american freinds dont seem to bother with cricket maybe because you can play for five days and still draw....just think of all the add breaks they could fit in between overs. so the question realy is........Do Americans play cricket?
Lou

[aussie]

Lulling us into a false sense of security?  [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]

Hell, the Under 9's could beat the Aussies right now....and we don't appear to be the most gracious of losers  

And the Yanks kinda play cricket - the only thing is that they have this tendancy to play their bats kinda high - like having them over their shoulder and then they only play for something called ...ummm...errr...Innings?  

[arthurshort]

To cheer up our freinds down under the England cricket team are allowing the west indies to thrash them lulling our aussie freinds into thinking there going to keep the ashes this summer [smiley=grin.gif]

that got me wondering why our american freinds dont seem to bother with cricket maybe because you can play for five days and still draw....just think of all the add breaks they could fit in between overs. so the question realy is........Do Americans play cricket?
Lou

Not very well.

[nhmaf]

There may be some small local leagues and I know that some universities have club level (intra-campus, not inter-university) competitions, but generally the answer is "no".
We do like our baseball very much, but we usually consider a 5-hour long game to be too long - I cannot possibly imagine trying to keep up with a game that could span days.   Maybe it has something to do with our drinking beer while watching baseball - though I've personally tried a few times, it doesn't do my body well to be drinking for 3 or 4 days straight!   I don't know how any of your die-hard cricket fans can hold a steady job?!
 

Good luck with your cricket matches !

Also, so sorry to hear of all the damage and deaths from the drought and fires in Australia?  Is there any end in sight to the hot, dry weather for you?  Maybe that will also
keep the cricket matches shorter - only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun, right ?

[montmil]

We do fish with crickets.  

Monte

[Justin B.]

A five day match would never make it over here (TV-wise) as it would preempt too many liberally slanted TV shows...

[Lucky_Lou]

The good news is that an updated format called 20/20 is gathering momentum 20 overs each side
(an over is 6 balls to the uneducated) the game takes a couple of hours so ideal for tv generally pretty  exiting as the players realy have to go for it i think it will draw a lot more fans to the game
Lou

[Bengt_Phorqs]

One of my favorite childhood memories was catching about 50 crappie using gray crickets.  Fantastic!

But if you mean the game, about all I know about it is watching it on the BBC when I was posted to Yemen for about 4 years.  Not much else to do but read and watch tv (and drink if you could get it) but I got intrigued about watching those guys in the white suits.  All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs.  In it's way, it's much more civilized than what passes for our collision sports over here like football and basketball.

And just to rant, if a basket ball player get 2 points for a regular basket, and 3 points for a long distance shot, why do they still get 2 points for a slam dunk?  Seems to me that if you can do that you should be limited to just one point.  But I digress....

[aussie]

All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs.

 [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]

That has to be about the best description of the game that I've had the pleasure to read. I especially like the bit about the garden hose!!!!

[Lucky_Lou]

One of my favorite childhood memories was catching about 50 crappie using gray crickets.  Fantastic!

But if you mean the game, about all I know about it is watching it on the BBC when I was posted to Yemen for about 4 years.  Not much else to do but read and watch tv (and drink if you could get it) but I got intrigued about watching those guys in the white suits.  All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs.  In it's way, it's much more civilized than what passes for our collision sports over here like football and basketball.

And just to rant, if a basket ball player get 2 points for a regular basket, and 3 points for a long distance shot, why do they still get 2 points for a slam dunk?  Seems to me that if you can do that you should be limited to just one point.  But I digress....

Slam Dunk??/ is that a biscuit you get from Starbucks??
Lou

[MrRiden]

I've caught matches on the satellite dish but even our state side "alternative" sports shows won't broadcast Cricket. I'm not aware of any Leagues here in the South West nor have I seen any games going on in local parks. Soccer, and Rugby league games can be viewed in most parks but I've never run across a test here in the states. I enjoy watching a good game of Rugby but of all the spectator sports I most like National League Baseball [pinch hitting is for Nancy boys]. Pitchers & Catchers report to spring training in just a few days.
rich

[drewboid]

Lou,
I haven't been up there in many years but there used to be cricket matches in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, NYC. No stadium or anything - just an open field with a lot of other sports going on at the same time.

[Lucky_Lou]

Lou,
I haven't been up there in many years but there used to be cricket matches in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, NYC. No stadium or anything - just an open field with a lot of other sports going on at the same time.

That took me back to my youth jumpers for goalposts and a dustbin for whickets
sighs......then i discovered girls!!!!!! yeh haaa
Lou

[Bengt_Phorqs]

Lou, in all seriousness, with the rapid increase in the Indian population (sub-continent, not native american) in Texas, I've been told that several of the private schools now have cricket teams.  I grew up in Texas in an era where you either played football, baseball, or basketball.  Soccer wasn't even heard of around here.  Beginning in the 1970's and '80's it was introduced as a youth sport and now it's very big here.  I suspect that in another 10 or 20 years cricket will become fairly common in this neck of the woods.

[Lucky_Lou]

Im sure you are right on this one ... the Indian cricket board(league/whatever) as just "auctioned"players to take part in a new event some getting 1.5 million$ for 6 weeks play
(12 games)wages previously unheard of in the game...recession what recession
Lou