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Re: The USA play cricket!!!
« on: September 22, 2004, 06:31:06 AM »
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Cyberus wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/3641776.stm

And in fact, the first ever cricket international was played between USA and Canada in 1844 in New York, drawing an audience of 10000.

Cricket was the summer sport in the US until it was replaced by baseball in the late 19th C. Apparently many cricket clubs in the US even sponsored baseball matches, mistakenly thinking that the new offshot of Cricket would generate more interest in their sport. How wrong they were, since baseball supplanted cricket. To the extent that most Yanks have probably never heard of cricket :-)


That's BAD news.

Cricket is the most boring suckiest game in all suckville.