emerging cricket nations: eg Norway v Samoa

The SCORECARD suggests that the best Norwegian cricketers are all fairly recent arrivals ... not too many Morgen Monssens or Torbjörn Svensens in their current line-up. A bad day for Nordic people?

I guess the Pakistani and Bangladeshi diaspora are taking the game to many new cricketing countries.

Krakatoa should be good at the game.


They only bloody named it.

South Africa are doing their bit to spread the game around the globe.

Namibia, Netherlands, England .....

Only a matter of time until scoreboards the world over are completely filled with Majjid du Preezes, Jaques Alis and Mohammed van de Merwes?

What we need is a great big melting pot?

lardbucket wrote:The SCORECARD suggests that the best Norwegian cricketers are all fairly recent arrivals ... not too many Morgen Monssens or Torbjörn Svensens in their current line-up. A bad day for Nordic people?

I guess the Pakistani and Bangladeshi diaspora are taking the game to many new cricketing countries.

And you don't see too many Hanks and Chads in the US team either.

We can't say we weren't warned (by Monty Python, no less).

You begin by having two MJ Smiths in the same side ... before you know it you've got eleven players in the same side, all called Imran Khan.


BATSMEN OF THE KALAHARI

Dated, but the end of the sketch reflects Channel Nein behaviour to the present day.

Bournemouth Gynaecologists v Watford Long John Silver Impersonators

Seems just about every old Python sketch is available on Youtube now. Funny stuff.

Didn't the Danes provide the world with Amjad Khan?

Vanuatu are going to win. Where are the Germans and Zambia? Seem to remember them last time.

Austria seem to have faded to oblivion since The Austrian retired.

tricycle wrote:Didn't the Danes provide the world with Amjad Khan?

Vanuatu are going to win. Where are the Germans and Zambia? Seem to remember them last time.

Where are the Germans? Quite frankly, who cares? (copyright Barry Davies, 1988 Olympics)

About the hockey, no?

lardbucket wrote:We can't say we weren't warned (by Monty Python, no less).

You begin by having two MJ Smiths in the same side ... before you know it you've got eleven players in the same side, all called Imran Khan.


BATSMEN OF THE KALAHARI

Dated, but the end of the sketch reflects Channel Nein behaviour to the present day.

Even funnier as the Kalahari is a desert.

A Russian cricket team called the Moscow Mongrels was featured on TV the other day. The captain - called Iqbal something, no surprize - expressed the hope that they'd attract a few Russian players some day.