I was never a fan of WI cricket, 4 fast bowlers trying to injure batsmen I always thought. Mind you, some of them could bat a bit(!)
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Yeah. I saw them play the Prime Ministers XI when I was a boy and got VR’s autograph after the game. Traded it for some comic books to a kid in my class. Haha.
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rbscebu
Girls call me Makaluod
You have some very strange looking sports in America
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For the people who suggested what to watch thank you very much. I've watched the fire in Babylon, the Netflix cricket explained. I've caught the highlights of the England versus India recent matches. I also found the Lord's cricket channel videos extremely helpful. Specifically the one on being stumped out
There’s some excellent videos on YouTube -
Wicket Keeping - ‘Alan Knott 1971 - 77’
Batting - ‘Graham Gooch 154 vs West Indies 1991’
Spin Bowling - ‘Englands Great Cricketers - Derek Underwood’
The more you watch the game the better it gets.
Grents:
I'm not much of a fan...can't understand the game (scoring, game play, player roles etc...), and I've always wondered why the game can take so long
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"No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win". Virat Kohli
I'm not much of a fan...can't understand the game (scoring, game play, player roles etc...), and I've always wondered why the game can take so long
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rbscebu
Girls call me Makaluod
Because grass never grows quicklyGrents:
.... I've always wondered why the game can take so long
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For Alan knott. I found what Gilligan did before he got on the boat!
Cricketers:
Interesting article about the 'sustainably' of the game amid climate change.
By Jeré Longman and Karan Deep Singh - 4 Aug 22 - NY Times
"The warming of the earth, combined with the exhausting nature of the game, is raising questions about the future of the second most popular sport in the world.
The wearing of pads, gloves and sometimes a helmet restricts a player’s ability to evaporate sweat in hot conditions often lacking shade.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
The joke is that if you want it to rain during this wetter-than-usual summer in the Caribbean, just start a cricket match.
Beneath the humor is seemingly tacit agreement with the assertion in a 2018 climate report that of all the major outdoor sports that rely on fields, or pitches, “cricket will be hardest hit by climate change.”
By some measures, cricket is the world’s second most popular sport, behind soccer, with two billion to three billion fans. And it is most widely embraced in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Africa and in the West Indies, which are also among the places most vulnerable to the intense heat, rain, flooding, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise linked to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases.
Cricket in developed nations like England and Australia has also been affected as heat waves become hotter, more frequent and longer lasting. Warm air can hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainstorms. Twenty of the 21 warmest years recorded have occurred since 2000.
This year, the sport has faced the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping and the hottest day ever in Britain. In June, when the West Indies — a combined team from mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean — arrived to play three matches in Multan, Pakistan, the temperature reached 111 degrees Fahrenheit, above average even for one of the hottest places on earth.
“It honestly felt like you were opening an oven,” said Akeal Hosein, 29, of the West Indies, who with his teammates wore ice vests during breaks in play.
South Africa cricketers took a water break during a match against India at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi in June. This has been the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
Heat is hardly the only concern for cricket players. Like the roughly similar pitching and batting sport of baseball, cricket cannot easily be played in the rain. In July, the West Indies abandoned a match in Dominica and shortened others in Guyana and Trinidad because of rain and waterlogged fields.
...Matches can last up to five days. Even one-day matches can extend in blistering conditions for seven hours or more [testing both players & fans].
...According to a 2019 report on cricket and climate change, a professional batsman playing over a day can generate heat equivalent to running a marathon. While marathon runners help dissipate heat by wearing shorts and singlets, in cricket the wearing of pads, gloves and a helmet restricts the ability to evaporate sweat in hot, humid conditions often lacking shade".
Works Cited: Cricket & Climate Change
"Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain". Kapil Dev
Interesting article about the 'sustainably' of the game amid climate change.
By Jeré Longman and Karan Deep Singh - 4 Aug 22 - NY Times
"The warming of the earth, combined with the exhausting nature of the game, is raising questions about the future of the second most popular sport in the world.
The wearing of pads, gloves and sometimes a helmet restricts a player’s ability to evaporate sweat in hot conditions often lacking shade.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
The joke is that if you want it to rain during this wetter-than-usual summer in the Caribbean, just start a cricket match.
Beneath the humor is seemingly tacit agreement with the assertion in a 2018 climate report that of all the major outdoor sports that rely on fields, or pitches, “cricket will be hardest hit by climate change.”
By some measures, cricket is the world’s second most popular sport, behind soccer, with two billion to three billion fans. And it is most widely embraced in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Africa and in the West Indies, which are also among the places most vulnerable to the intense heat, rain, flooding, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise linked to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases.
Cricket in developed nations like England and Australia has also been affected as heat waves become hotter, more frequent and longer lasting. Warm air can hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainstorms. Twenty of the 21 warmest years recorded have occurred since 2000.
This year, the sport has faced the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping and the hottest day ever in Britain. In June, when the West Indies — a combined team from mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean — arrived to play three matches in Multan, Pakistan, the temperature reached 111 degrees Fahrenheit, above average even for one of the hottest places on earth.
“It honestly felt like you were opening an oven,” said Akeal Hosein, 29, of the West Indies, who with his teammates wore ice vests during breaks in play.
South Africa cricketers took a water break during a match against India at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi in June. This has been the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
Heat is hardly the only concern for cricket players. Like the roughly similar pitching and batting sport of baseball, cricket cannot easily be played in the rain. In July, the West Indies abandoned a match in Dominica and shortened others in Guyana and Trinidad because of rain and waterlogged fields.
...Matches can last up to five days. Even one-day matches can extend in blistering conditions for seven hours or more [testing both players & fans].
...According to a 2019 report on cricket and climate change, a professional batsman playing over a day can generate heat equivalent to running a marathon. While marathon runners help dissipate heat by wearing shorts and singlets, in cricket the wearing of pads, gloves and a helmet restricts the ability to evaporate sweat in hot, humid conditions often lacking shade".
Works Cited: Cricket & Climate Change
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In the mangrove swampsCricketers:
Interesting article about the 'sustainably' of the game amid climate change.
By Jeré Longman and Karan Deep Singh - 4 Aug 22 - NY Times
"The warming of the earth, combined with the exhausting nature of the game, is raising questions about the future of the second most popular sport in the world.
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The wearing of pads, gloves and sometimes a helmet restricts a player’s ability to evaporate sweat in hot conditions often lacking shade.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
The joke is that if you want it to rain during this wetter-than-usual summer in the Caribbean, just start a cricket match.
Beneath the humor is seemingly tacit agreement with the assertion in a 2018 climate report that of all the major outdoor sports that rely on fields, or pitches, “cricket will be hardest hit by climate change.”
By some measures, cricket is the world’s second most popular sport, behind soccer, with two billion to three billion fans. And it is most widely embraced in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and South Africa and in the West Indies, which are also among the places most vulnerable to the intense heat, rain, flooding, drought, hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise linked to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases.
Cricket in developed nations like England and Australia has also been affected as heat waves become hotter, more frequent and longer lasting. Warm air can hold more moisture, resulting in heavier rainstorms. Twenty of the 21 warmest years recorded have occurred since 2000.
This year, the sport has faced the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping and the hottest day ever in Britain. In June, when the West Indies — a combined team from mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean — arrived to play three matches in Multan, Pakistan, the temperature reached 111 degrees Fahrenheit, above average even for one of the hottest places on earth.
“It honestly felt like you were opening an oven,” said Akeal Hosein, 29, of the West Indies, who with his teammates wore ice vests during breaks in play.
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South Africa cricketers took a water break during a match against India at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi in June. This has been the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping.Credit...Anindito Mukherjee for The New York Times
Heat is hardly the only concern for cricket players. Like the roughly similar pitching and batting sport of baseball, cricket cannot easily be played in the rain. In July, the West Indies abandoned a match in Dominica and shortened others in Guyana and Trinidad because of rain and waterlogged fields.
...Matches can last up to five days. Even one-day matches can extend in blistering conditions for seven hours or more [testing both players & fans].
...According to a 2019 report on cricket and climate change, a professional batsman playing over a day can generate heat equivalent to running a marathon. While marathon runners help dissipate heat by wearing shorts and singlets, in cricket the wearing of pads, gloves and a helmet restricts the ability to evaporate sweat in hot, humid conditions often lacking shade".
Works Cited: Cricket & Climate Change
"Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain". Kapil Dev
Where the python romps
There is peace from twelve till two.
Even caribous
Lie around and snooze;
For there's nothing else to do.
In Bengal
To move at all
Is seldom, if ever done.
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.
-Noel Coward
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