Cricket Thread

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Pothunter 16 Jun 10:20pm, 16 Jun 2024 8,958 posts	0 Pothunter Thought that was just me! By the time I’ve worked out what they are showing the image disappears.
rf_fozzy 17 Jun 11:16am, 17 Jun 2024 22,437 posts	0 rf_fozzy Not sure how I've never realised this before, but I've only just realised that West Indies Cricket is strongly dominated by the Islands in the lesser Antilles - with only Jamaica being the only consituent not in that group. Perhaps if cricket can be introduced into the US in even a small way, then there might be scope in the long term for the West Indies to think about possibly playing games and recruiting players from Puerto Rico and some of the other larger islands. The question would be money, but the greater player base would eventually balance that out.
rf_fozzy 17 Jun 11:17am, 17 Jun 2024 22,438 posts	0 rf_fozzy (of course, my thinking may be way off the mark)
Pothunter 17 Jun 11:49pm, 17 Jun 2024 8,962 posts	0 Pothunter Apart from the Bahamas, the potential future members of Cricket West Indies are some of the islands that are constituent parts of France and the Netherlands. No mention of any of the bigger island nations. en.wikipedia.org
paulcook 17 Jun 11:56pm, 17 Jun 2024 5,291 posts	0 paulcook Is that because those islands were predominantly English speaking as opposed to French, Dutch and Spanish? So more about exported culture rather than geography. Just a guess more than any real theory.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 18 Jun 7:05am, 18 Jun 2024 18,947 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain The Spanish speaking islands are hotbeds of baseball, the Dutch islands also play. You can't organise anything in Haiti, which doesn't leave a great deal else.
Ocelot Spleens 20 Jun 9:54am, 20 Jun 2024 39,043 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Bowlers won them that, Rashid in particular.
jda 20 Jun 11:05am, 20 Jun 2024 17,319 posts	0 jda I happened to wake up in the middle of the night and listened to what sounded like highlights, but turned out to be just the couple of overs where they smashed 46 (?) runs
Surrey Phil 20 Jun 9:54pm, 20 Jun 2024 10,466 posts	0 Surrey Phil Surrey are going to win the London derby, although it's a bit tighter in the Roses match but Yorkshire should edge it.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 20 Jun 10:00pm, 20 Jun 2024 18,997 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Essex looked very comfortable.