REAL reason we Americans hate cricket.
Posted by tennisplanet on November 23, 2009
Imagine this: A team of robbers enter your home, hold you captive, rob you of all your valuables and then decide to not leave. They not only live in your home now they also turn you and your family into their slaves – in your own freaking home.
Now these evil people love a certain sport…….. Can you freaks put two and two together from now on?
I guess not. I am stuck with spoon-feeding toddlers here. Geeeeezzzzz!!!!!!!
So to indulge in their passion away from their own home, they decide to teach you and your kids their favorite sport.
When they are finally kicked out of their acquired home, they leave after instilling the passion for their sport into your psyche.
When you are humiliated in that way by an intruder, shouldn’t you make sure you eliminate all signs of his presence after he leaves?
If not, aren’t you still mired in that pathetic existence at some subtle plane?
Tennis Planet 
prasad said
Let it go TP. 🙂
Cricket is something that Indians enjoy because we lack true national heroes. All we have is thugs ruling the country and pushing it back into dark ages. Cricket gives us a way escape from all that.
Dee said
What about England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand,West Indies,SriLanka, Pakistan, Zimbabwe????? Now they have 20/20 games.We had Australian and All stars ( retired Aus players and state players)match on Sunday and it was so much fun to watch.
Jenny said
Sir Vibhudi Aatmapudi said
Being half-indian I was crazy about this game until the other half said ” Wait, what have you gotten yourself into? Why are you wearing white clothes and staring at other people wearing white clothes for hours on end in a big round field…with no one watching!?!”
I have learnt my lesson. Ever since, I have passionately argued for the case of tennis over cricket and will continue to do so.
By the way TP, I’ve never met a single American in over 12 of the united states who hated cricket. Sure they were confused by the field arrangements and bewildered by the folks who just stood around. Some even took pictures of what must have looked like a complex masonic ritual. I wish it were, it would probably be more fun that way!
kitty said
I am English and I totally like cricket more than baseball and I played both. I think games like cricket,field-hockey require tremendous skill. There are one-day,T20 versions of cricket which are very enjoyable. In fact tennis,cricket,rugby,soccer are what I love watching. Test cricket is for purists but I am more a fan of the shorter versions.
TP, the other article you had about the short guys ruling that game is true only for the batsmen and that too not entirely true because it got plenty of tall batsmen ruling the game as well. The fast bowlers are fearsome treetops.
I would replace your article and put “baseball instead of cricket” and “rest of the world instead of americans” and it would make perfect sense to me. How can softball be an olympic sport, only God knows!
Cricket adds infinite variations and variety to the game compared to baseball specially because after bouncing off the pitch it can do 1000 things. Then there is fast,spin,googly,swinging newball,reversing oldball…whole lot of physics like you see in Formula-One dynamics. I think sometimes the dead pitches hugely favoring the batsmen is what makes some games dull. I think the game not being popular in the US may be is to do with baseball league running politics because I think the T20 version of the game will be a big hit there and ofcourse the americans are anti-english anyway 🙂 opposite switches,cars,righthand drives!
I have seen this comment many a times by casual onlookers of this sport like TP made….”oh test cricket goes on for 5 days and ends in a draw sometimes”. I would say savor the shorten versions and get to know the sport well before commenting on that.
Ok off I go and see how England fares against SouthAfrica, they won the first match 🙂
Jenny said
Do you live in the UK, Kitty?
kitty said
No I don’t live there Jenny. We moved to the United States
kitty said
though I wish I was in the UK to see WTF
Sir Vibhudi Aatmapudi said
AND!!!!
Those who vehemently, and vociferously support a game played by eleven flanneled fools( two thumbs up to GB Shaw!) are deluded into believing that Cricket is to sport what Champagne is to France. They will declare you their enemies for life if you don’t share their warped love for a game that’s full of sexual innuendoes ( fine leg, stumped, silly point, bowled a maiden over, hit-wicket, balls, etc…) but a game that no girl comes to watch unless she’s over 50. Don’t believe me? Watch what happens when all the stans ( guys from hindoostan / pakistan) come out of their closets and begin to pelt the infidel Sir VA with mountains of text!
What nest of hornets have you stirred, TP : )
kitty said
“no girl comes to watch unless she’s over 50”
where did you come up with that rubbish?
you are entitled to your opinion SV but it doesn’t convince me a bit. Cheers 🙂
Stella said
I’d rather watch cricket than baseball anyday. One of the best vacations I ever had was in St Kitts when we stayed in the same hotel as the West Indies team during a match against ???. As one went around the island there were people o every corner with their radios tuned to the match that was being played just down the road