Cricket - F--k Yeah!!!!!

[DanOregon]

US beats Pakistan in some international tournament. I know nothing about the sport other than I've never seen it played in the States and know Pakistan is all about it. Might be a bigger shock than Miracle on Ice.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/sport/usa-pakistan-t20-cricket-world-cup/index.html

 

[Twirling Time]

It's T20 cricket which isn't the cricket I know, but still an awesome victory.

The squad is almost entirely Caribbean or South Asian, but Yanks cheer laundry so it's all good.

 

[Twirling Time]

T20 is basically 20 overs per side. There are six bowls (pitches) per over, so each side gets 120 bowls unless the team batting last gets to the winning target, the U.S. equivalent of a walk-off.

Point of the T20 game is to make it fit in a 3-hour window to make it more popular.

 

[franticscribe]

I don't understand any of it, but I have a grad school friend who was there. He's a Pakistani immigrant - so I think kind of a big deal for him.

Anyway, his Pakistani friends are blaming him on FB for the loss and it's kinda hilarious. I'm glad to see some sports superstitions transcend cultures.

 

[dixiehack]

Cross thread alert. The "Cricket" episode of Bluey on Disney Plus is so damn wholesome it will leave you cutting onions.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

They still have India and Ireland left in group stage. But advancing to the next group stage is doable by beating the Irish.

 

[DanOregon]

The highlights.

 

[BTExpress]

There are many sports I know very little about, but reading a description of an event usually gives me an idea of what happened.

Cricket? Never. AP story today may as well have been written in Mandarin.

 

[Cosmo]

My annual London trip features at least one day of me sitting in a pub and having a local try to explain cricket to me to no avail.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

In all seriousness, I learned cricket from playing a video game 20 or years ago. If EA Sports produced it, I bought it and they did a cricket game for the PS2 in 2002 or 03. I found a copy and added it to my EA Sports library. Playing it, I learned about wickets and overs and 6s (not that kind) and all the other sport-specific stuff.

 

[DanOregon]

We had some Australian friends visit us when I was a kid. We played Cricket/whiffle ball hybrid. Great fun.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I'm like the rest of you. I want to understand it, I am genetically incapable of understanding it, but the international events look kind of cool because of how excited fans get. I saw the story on the U.S. victory and I knew Pakistan is a power, so I thought it was awesome.