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MagicallyAdept · 03-13-2007, 09:24 AM

Anyone here interested?

Starts today (well an hour ago) and i am really looking forward it this time around as any of the big 8 have a realistic chance of winning.

Canada play Kenya tomorrow and i will be cheering on you Canucks. I guess that game is your cup final as a rank outsider.

I would love to be in St. Lucia for the England vs Canada game, partying with the barmy army, drinking beer in the warm sunshine.

Magic.

Hemi-Cuda · 03-13-2007, 10:30 AM

Canada has a cricket team?

Ozy_Flame · 03-13-2007, 10:36 AM

Cricket isn't interestng unless that delightful Shane Warne is involved!

The Goon · 03-13-2007, 10:37 AM

Unfortunately, it's on PPV here and I don't have the desire to pay to watch it.

Four years ago I was in South Africa while the Cricket World Cup was going on there, and things were pretty exciting, especially when the Canadian batsman set a run record. I happened to be in a sports bar for the final, and the bar was 50% Indians and 50% Australians. The best part is that there was a bowler for India nicknamed "The Turbanator".

I have no idea how Canada will do this time around, but if there's a cheap way for me to watch the match Sunday against England, I'll have to cheer the boys on. A parental decree also states that I have to cheer for the Proteas as well. Their match against Australia should be something.

MagicallyAdept · 03-14-2007, 10:42 AM

Canada are just about to finish their innings and are heading for a total of about 190-200. Not that great but Kenya are not one of the best teams either and a few early wickets could swing it your way. Come on Canada!
What are the odds of me convincing the wife to watch cricket tonight, i told her Canada are on but she is still having none of it. Its ok though the hockey is on at 1.30am tonight and i don't have work tomorrow.

burn_baby_burn · 03-14-2007, 11:43 AM

I got into Cricket a little when I was living in Australia. Mostly because there were no other sports on TV. I still wear my Clashes for the Ashes t-shirt to the gym.

How many players on the Canadian Cricket team were born here? Not that it really matters. But Cricket is not a game that many native Canadians would have ever witnessed being played on Canadian soil.

Bobblehead · 03-14-2007, 11:46 AM

I've never seen a game nor understand the rules, but I have heard it is a looong party in the stands so it can't be all bad.

icarus · 03-15-2007, 06:55 AM

And Canada is off to a galloping start...

Australia is going to dominate. The only real competition is the Poms and they got annihilated in the Ashes. Although Ozy_Flame is right, there's no fun unless Warnesy is involved!

TurnedTheCorner · 03-15-2007, 12:36 PM

Interested in the sense that I wish I was still in Barbados to watch it unfold - I saw the stadium under frantic construction in November, I hope it came together OK.

Winsor_Pilates · 03-15-2007, 12:41 PM

I didn't know Canada had a team until yesterday. That's awesome. It's amazing that we can make the Cricket world cup but are ranked 100+ in soccer.

I don't follow cricket much, but I like to cheer on India when I do.

MLSfan22 · 03-16-2007, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobblehead

I've never seen a game nor understand the rules, but I have heard it is a looong party in the stands so it can't be all bad.

If you understand the rules of baseball, you will probably figure out cricket:

http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_data.../CKTBASX1.html

icarus · 03-16-2007, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MLSfan22

If you understand the rules of baseball, you will probably figure out cricket

Um, I played baseball competitively at the university level but it took me about a year in total of living in England, South Africa, and Australia to actually figure out cricket. It's a lot different from baseball. That site is not bad though--if you know the rules already, not sure how helpful it would have been when I was clueless. There are still little bits I don't quite understand.

MagicallyAdept · 03-19-2007, 10:49 AM

Well we beat you guys but it wasn't an easy victory seeing as we couldn't bowl you out and only won by 51 runs.

How can you guys say its no fun without Warney - Flintoff has taken over his antics!

Freddie was rescued at 4am after drunkenly taking out a pedalo into the sea for a little boat trip. He capsized and had to be rescued. All this on the eve of the game versus Canada. Awesome - go England, if we can't win it by being good at cricket we will self destruct and make our drunken fans proud of our off field antics! Woo!

i wan't Ireland to win it now anyway.

icarus · 03-19-2007, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept

Freddie was rescued at 4am after drunkenly taking out a pedalo into the sea for a little boat trip. He capsized and had to be rescued. All this on the eve of the game versus Canada. Awesome - go England, if we can't win it by being good at cricket we will self destruct and make our drunken fans proud of our off field antics! Woo!

Isn't he the captain?

RedHot25 · 03-21-2007, 08:13 AM

I just found this browsing over the news and thought that it may (or may not?) be of interest to people in this thread: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/0...1.html?ref=rss

The death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is being treated as "suspicious" by police.

MagicallyAdept · 03-26-2007, 08:18 AM

Bob Woolmer's death is now being treated as murder. It has been stated he was knocked out with chloroform then strangled!!

Apparantly he was just about to bring out his autobiography and parts of it uncovered the seedy underworld of corruption in cricket including some of the pakistan players who have allegedly thrown games for their gambling handlers.

India also got knocked out in the group stages (very bad) and the players have had their houses ransacked by angry mobs back in India!

icarus · 03-26-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept

Bob Woolmer's death is now being treated as murder. It has been stated he was knocked out with chloroform then strangled!!

Apparantly he was just about to bring out his autobiography and parts of it uncovered the seedy underworld of corruption in cricket including some of the pakistan players who have allegedly thrown games for their gambling handlers.

India also got knocked out in the group stages (very bad) and the players have had their houses ransacked by angry mobs back in India!

It's a thug's life, this cricket.

O_M_A · 03-26-2007, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept

Bob Woolmer's death is now being treated as murder. It has been stated he was knocked out with chloroform then strangled!!

Apparantly he was just about to bring out his autobiography and parts of it uncovered the seedy underworld of corruption in cricket including some of the pakistan players who have allegedly thrown games for their gambling handlers.

India also got knocked out in the group stages (very bad) and the players have had their houses ransacked by angry mobs back in India!

My cricket knowledge isn't very good but I'm pretty sure I've heard that the Pakistan players were involved in a match fixing scandal last year. It's ridiculous that this man lost his life over something like that.

It's amazing to see how those two countries (India and Pakistan) live and die by the game. I was in India 3 weeks ago and the country was already prepping for the World Cup. Every lead story on the news was the everyday goings of the cricket team. They even cut live to the players at the airport and their plane leaving for the World Cup. It makes TSN's fascination with Leafs seem so miniscule... it's crazy. It'll be ugly when those players actually return to India.

It's crazy how those two countries live and die by the game.

icarus · 03-26-2007, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by O_M_A

Every lead story on the news was the everyday goings of the cricket team. They even cut live to the players at the airport and their plane leaving for the World Cup.

Sounds just like England at the FIFA World Cup. I was in South Africa at the time, but nevertheless they were broadcasting live footage of the team leaving England and then arriving in Germany like 45 minutes later.

evman150 · 03-27-2007, 03:53 AM

Cricket is actually reasonably popular in Victoria. The house I grew up in was right next to a cricket pitch. All summer the guys in their nerdy all white uniforms would be out there, playing a sport I had no idea how to play.