Word: cricketers
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...Cricket Fan: "World Series? What World...
...game itself, I have no real objection. Admittedly it is a simpler, less sophisticated version of cricket (which is played in MANY more countries than baseball), but I don't think Americans should be ashamed of that. As kids we usually learn to play checkers as a primer for the more intellectually challenging game of chess. And it is true that cricket has many subtleties that have thus far eluded most Americans. But you are a young nation, and I'm sure that as you continue to master the simple art of slugging an oversize ball...
...Melbourne Cricket Ground, soccer players endured unforeseen conditions for Summer Olympians--Antarctic winds and waves of screeching SEAGULLS that strafed the athletes and occasionally landed on the field during play...
...national hero in their country's entire history is Don Bradman. Don who? No, Bradman didn't lead Australia to political independence (in fact, Aussies still bow to Britain's Queen Elizabeth) or fight off the Japanese during World War II. Rather he was a spectacular cricket player in the 1930s and '40s. It's rather like comparing Babe Ruth with George Washington...
...character is praised as effusively as his swimming. His manager, Dave Flaskas, says he "doesn't waste energy trying to fake a persona." His father Ken says he and wife Margaret have raised an "old-style person": trustworthy, decent and clean-living. Ken's father Cec was a frustrated cricket player who lived vicariously through his three sons' athletic pursuits. This was suffocating for Ken, who vowed to let his two children play pressure free...