Recent content by Zebedee

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship It looks like it, but it's not that simple. Cricket might not be your thing. Baseball diamonds, baseball parks and baseball stadiums are just not the same. Not in any way, shape or form. It's lazy or ignorant to suggest so. Nor do...

Re: Venues announced for Twenty20 World Championship Now you are just being silly. You can hardly hold "bits" of a 20/Twenty in one country and other "bits" in another. And even if you might, The US is not the place to start that level of fine tuned experimentation.

Re: No Olympics cricket: thanks, ICC That all seems a little strident, if justified. Where did you see this story? You have a point, that the US did work to get Baseball in to the games, but cricket is already a recognised Olympic sport. Once in you don't tend to get thrown out...

Re: Umpire Hair vows to carry on Hair has not been victimised, he was wrong. All of the replays showed he was in the wrong and that is a truth that will stand for the ages despite his clearly great record as an umpire. The next World Cup is to be hosted in the W'INDIES not the...

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket I have been told, that in times past, it was a way of keeping cricket players fit during the winter months. But I don't buy it. It would mean a permanent professional team, in a time of the "Gentleman Player" and the amateur. BUT I also...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 This is turning away from the topic.... I have evidently missed something about where this Aus/US cultural exchange is happening. Is it in the northern hemisphere? Where winter games, like AFL, are played? Or is it in down south? Either way, I must...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 Not that it matters now that I have been corrected as to the context; but is it not arrogant to claim cricket as Australia's own (perhaps not) for the purposes of business? It's just a question. But is that all that Australian sport is? The game of the...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 I am not sure I understand your point about the USA's current ranking (can anyone tell me what the US ranking is?) Nor if I explained sufficiently so that you understood my point: But, of course countries do not choose the level of membership they have...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 Ahhh... then yes, I did miss the context. Question: Is/Was that quintessentially Aussie game, Australian Rules Football, promoted in similar fashion or was such a notion promoted before cricket. By comparison "Footy" in Oz is of greater cultural...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 I know this has been moved from one thread to another, so I am not so sure that timmyj51 is responsible for this quote (above), but I ask whoever is responsible: since when was cricket a vehicle for, or as seemingly implied, solely a part of Aussie...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 YES! Social event maybe. But not exactly small. Just ask the people of the sub-continent or the West Indies. It's usually a huge social event there and could be elsewhere, when certain folk get over their love affair with that game beloved of English...

Re: Indoor Cricket Cup- G'day USA 2007 The US is an ASSOCIATE member of the ICC, The groupings are: Top tier -Full members (Test sides); second tier - Associate members; and third tier - Affiliate members. In that the US is ranked alongside such genuinely fine cricketing nations as, The...

Re: What Is That Monty Doing On Our Cricket Team? Is Tasmania a really-real place then? Who'd have thunk it?:D Can they measure out 22 yards there then?

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket I am sorry Stamislav, my point wasn't strictly one about football, I was trying to answer the point that cricket might be revitalized by the US. From that premise I was saying, by comparison, that no matter how football got to the position it's in...

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket I haven't read all of the messages on this topic (I will later) but just a quick thought. The Yanks were going to do wonderful things for world football (soccer) when they hosted the World Cup in 1994. They didn't. Football has moved on...