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[Oracle]

I can fight off Feisty ... Pakistanis in Whites, playing Cricket ... and in Cyprus ... Mmmm

Does this place get any better?

[bill cobbett]

When seen from a distance, on the edge of a village green say, I think its all too easy to over-romanticise cricket. On the field it's a very competitive game at all levels of play.

It can also be very painful, especially when that hard ball hits your middle stump.

[Svetlana]

..... or hits your bails

[Oracle]

I remember getting roped into women's cricket at Uni .... The real pitches were used by the guys .... So we had to play in this field next to a pub after the sheep had all been moved off .. and it was the most disgusting hour of my life ... running daintily to avoid falling into sheep droppings!

I am purely a spectator now ...

[miltiades]

I'm not going to pretend I understand LBW or other Cricket rules .... I just miss the sight of those portly athletes in their whites, the sound of leather on willow, crustless cucumber sarnies, Battenburg cake and other metaphors and Double Entendres ...

"The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey" ....

"What a magnificent shot! No, he's out." - Tony Greig.

Why did the Brits not popularise Cricket in Cyprus ?

What a waste of space Golf courses are

Yes I propose that Cricket can civilise the Cypriot .....

Where's it being played?

Oracle can you hazard a guess as whether I like cricket or not ?

As an excuse for quashing down the refreshments I would hazard it meets with your approval ...

When I was a kid growing up in Stroumbi the Great , I remember playing a sort of a cricket type of a game called LINGRI , similar to cricket but not half as boring as bloody cricket I cant stand the stupid game , as I have previously said the most boring people on earth are Asians and what do they do to alleviate their boredom , play stupid cricket !!
I hate the game just as much as I hate Traffic Wardens !
Think I will have another glass of red !

[Svetlana]

But 'Cricket is the new Soccer'; in the Autumn the England team will be playing five 4 hour matches against the West Indies (are they boring too?), winning team members will 'earn' $1m each. Not bad fo 20 hours 'work'!

No doubt thye will all be moving to Wilmslow and buying BMW 4x4 for their WAGs!

As a special favour, Miltiades, I will check to see if there is a Traffic Warden team in the Cyprus League - they are always looking for sponsors

Lana

[miltiades]

When you get to my age Svet !!!! , you have trouble remembering how many legs you have after a bottle or two , hence the cliche "legless " Now try counting the score at a cricket match ,400 , 500 , 600 not in but 1000 out , the game was devised by someone inebriated , just as inebriated of the inventor of the French language who must have been high on the old Napoleon when he spelled Gron Pri as Grand Prix , what a prick he must have been !!!
As for a Traffic Warden Team in Cyprus , I will most certainly sponsor them to hell !!!

[Feisty]

There are two Sri Lankan teams, a mixed Indian/Pakistani team an ex-pat team, an Amdocs team, a couple of British military teams and quite a few Repatriate Cypriots from SA, Australia etc.

lana PS Don't tell Feisty, she will only want to come along and watch!

Why can't I come?
I love cricket.

[CopperLine]

Cricket is the game of anti-colonialism. It should be encouraged in Cyprus.

The great Windies teams of the 1970s were hugely important in promoting a new self-confidence in Caribbean independence.

And of course the Aussies, New Zealanders, South Africans joined the Indians, Sri Lankans and Pakistanis in defeating England.


Cricket is a great revolutionary game (read the work of CLR James, -Guardian cricket correspondent from the 1930s)

[Magnus]

Cypriots don't need cricket, we've got the souvla and tavli. Besides, it's just one step away from morris dancing and snooker.