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It Is Complex Laws Like This That Makes CRICKET Such A Beautiful & Fascinating Sport — & Will Always Confound The Americans.

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by Anura Guruge
on June 21, 2024

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How brilliant? I kind of worked out what had happened just from the headlines (i.e., it had to be related to the No Ball). I then read further … & I was right to an extent. So beautiful. So classic. So CRICKET. Wow. Just love it. Made me so happy.

I have always maintained that cricket is chess played on a large field. Very cerebrial.

It is NOT just “crash-bang-wallop. Thank you Ma’am” (though T20 does make it look like that). There is so many intricacies. This is a great example. No wonder cricket will always confound the Americans — though the current U.S.A. cricket team, made up mainly on ex-pats, are doing quite well.

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U.S. Professional Cricket ‘Major League’ Makes A Very Poor Font Selection — Harms Credibility.

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by Anura Guruge
on February 16, 2024

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I get e-mails from them. So, I got the above this morning. I started to glance through the ‘New York’ list. ‘Rashid HHan‘? Ah! That is how I saw it … read it. The ‘K’ looked just like an ‘H’. I started looking through.

I HONESTLY thought they had screwed up BIG TIME & got the names wrong.

It was ONLY when I looked at the names, again, more carefully that I realized that it was FONT ISSUE.

Come on!

Really, really, really BAD FONT choice.

How could they NOT have spotted that. Wow!

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The U.S. Now REALLY Has A Proper, Professional Cricket League, With 2 Grounds & TV Coverage.

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by Anura Guruge
on July 11, 2023

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Contrary to what many Americans know & realize cricket has been in the U.S. since at least the 1920 — when British actors coming to Hollywood set up cricket teams.

I played cricket in Boston in the 1990s. You could see weekend cricket games in D.C. around that ear too.

Now with all the Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans & those from the Caribbean living in the U.S., it was inevitable.

I have been falling the rise of ‘Major League Cricket‘, the U.S. professional league, since its formation a few years ago.

Yes, we have had a few T20 games in the last few years.

This year, starting in a couple of days, we will have a proper T20 League — a micro-version of the ‘IPL‘. There is even a team that has ripped off a IPL Team logo!

This is GREAT. NOT this year, but one of these days I will try to make it to North Carolina to watch a game live. I have not see a professional, LIVE cricket match since c. 1997.

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