Cricket Coverage

liam7831

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

ShadyAcres

I personally don't like it either so I don't watch it.

BarryD2

liam7831 wrote: »

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

Trolling? Cricket gets very little patchy coverage in the Irish media except on the odd occasion like recent days.

And we're getting better at the modern game. And we operate an all Ireland team.

It's a game that is long played in Ireland, Kilkenny in particular had numerous local clubs in the 19th century. When the Gaelic League came in, they simply changed their prowess with bat & ball to hurl & sliotar

major bill

We happen to be playing England in a test Cricket match so prob a reason why its getting so much coverage at the moment

Canis Lupus

Didn't Ireland crush the batting of England the other day? Got rolled themselves but it's a big deal in the cricket world.

Anyway, surely hearing about cricket makes a nice change from the dross that is the premier league.

suicide_circus

800 years.


thats how long a cricket match takes.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

liam7831 wrote: »

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

Are you being serious? If it gets 30 minutes a year it's the height of it.

lertsnim

liam7831 wrote: »

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

You poor pet. It's over now so you will be able to recover from the ordeal.

Strumms

liam7831 wrote: »

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

Minority sport ? What exactly constitutes a ‘minority sport’ ?

Pretty poor at it ? We have beaten both England and the West Indies, two of the best sides in the world. And more than held our own in games against other test playing nations.

We are in terms of cricket an emerging nation, with plans ongoing to increase the participation and success levels.

We have ‘qualified’ for and participated in four world cups.

It gets for the first time recently an appropriate amount of coverage and people are moaning about it. ONLY in this country.

Mrcaramelchoc

Its a dreadfully boring game it should be kept for the heavily medicated.

Hamsterchops

liam7831 wrote: »

Gets away too much coverage, practically on every radio news bulletin for such a minority sport in this part of the world. Also were pretty poor at it.

Test match against England, why not cover it?

Bricriu

And we're getting better at the modern game. And we operate an all Ireland team.

It's a game that is long played in Ireland, Kilkenny in particular had numerous local clubs in the 19th century. When the Gaelic League came in, they simply changed their prowess with bat & ball to hurl & sliotar [/QUOTE]

Absolutely wrong (but probably just more ignorant West-Brit revisionism).
Hurling has been played in Ireland since ancient times and is the original national game.

SEPT 23 1989

Drinking for three days in the sunshine in some of the most beautiful locations around the world

Thought we would be all over that game

salmocab

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Drinking for three days in the sunshine in some of the most beautiful locations around the world

Thought we would be all over that game

I went to a game in Australia and it’s a great day, sunshine beer and all day to relax.

Mrcaramelchoc

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

Its a dreadfully boring game it should be kept for the heavily medicated.

You obviously missed the world cup final then.

Any sport is boring if you have no interest in it and don’t understand it.

BarryD2

Bricriu wrote: »

Absolutely wrong (but probably just more ignorant West-Brit revisionism).
Hurling has been played in Ireland since ancient times and is the original national game.

Showing your prejudices there! Interesting little piece on that radio this morning, that Michael Cusack played cricket and what's more that cricket was that widely played that it was proposed that it become recognised as a GAA game. Six of the founders were in favour and eight against..

But sure hurling is one of the great stick and ball field games and let's hope that Wexford can do the business today. Though the prospect of facing the beaten KK again in the same AI would be a bit of a sickener.

But by same token, cricket is the worlds great bat & ball game.

branie2

I don't follow it anyway

JohnnyFlash

Cricket was going to become a member sport of the GAA when it was being formed as an organisation. It was extremely popular in Ireland.

ToddyDoody

I'd comment that its a pity we dont have crickets in this country.

Collie D

Kenia Wonderful Cobbler wrote: »

Are you being serious? If it gets 30 minutes a year it's the height of it.

Indeed. Sure this thread alone probably constitutes a 10% increase in cricket coverage in Irish media.

martingriff

Collie D wrote: »

Indeed. Sure this thread alone probably constitutes a 10% increase in cricket coverage in Irish media.

It is Ashes year so maybe up to 45 mins coverage

Dr. Bre

I don’t like cricket , I love it

0byme75341jo28

Can someone tell me how cricket works I honestly have no idea..

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Bricriu wrote: »

Absolutely wrong (but probably just more ignorant West-Brit revisionism).
Hurling has been played in Ireland since ancient times and is the original national game.

He’s right. Cricket was played extensively in Kilkenny and Tipperary prior to the GAA revival.

ToddyDoody

Rosa Obnoxious Gun wrote: »

Can someone tell me how cricket works I honestly have no idea..

You have to knock the small stick off with the ball and run around a square.

dxhound2005

Rosa Obnoxious Gun wrote: »

Can someone tell me how cricket works I honestly have no idea..

Thank you for being honest about it, but why do you want to know?

riffmongous

Bricriu wrote: »

And we're getting better at the modern game. And we operate an all Ireland team.

It's a game that is long played in Ireland, Kilkenny in particular had numerous local clubs in the 19th century. When the Gaelic League came in, they simply changed their prowess with bat & ball to hurl & sliotar

Absolutely wrong (but probably just more ignorant West-Brit revisionism).
Hurling has been played in Ireland since ancient times and is the original national game.[/QUOTE]

The ignorance is purely yours, have a read, from 50 clubs in the 1890s to just one after ww2

https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-history-of-cricket-in-county-kilkenny-the-forgotten-game/

salmocab

Cricket is an odd game, it’s quite slow but if you give it a go watching it you might be quite surprised especially the 50 over game. I broke my hand years ago and was off work for the World Cup mid 90s sometime. A mate of mine was off for a few weeks too and as there was nothing else on we ended up watching it and really quite enjoying it. The skills and the tactics are quite complex and whilst I don’t exactly follow it I would still enjoy watching it when it’s on and I’m home alone. It suffers from a perception of posh English game.

riffmongous

Rosa Obnoxious Gun wrote: »

Can someone tell me how cricket works I honestly have no idea..

You know rounders right? Well instead of defending some invisible space behind your bat there's a wooden target. Instead of being on the corner you are in the middle of the field and there's too batters, and the one who is one flips every 6 throws. Importantly there's no pressure on you to score except for time, you're only out when caught or the wooden target is hit, or you stopped it bring hit with your body

ToddyDoody

How's the women's game?

Hego Damask

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Cricket was going to become a member sport of the GAA when it was being formed as an organisation. It was extremely popular in Ireland.

No doubt the facist ***** at the GAA put a stop to it.

Hego Damask

And remember an Irish man is captain of the England team that just won the world cup!!

Collie D

Hego Damask wrote: »

No doubt the facist ***** at the GAA put a stop to it.

This post makes no sense. Who else would stop the GAA from incorporating a sport into their own organisation?

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Hego Damask wrote: »

No doubt the facist ***** at the GAA put a stop to it.

Ffs.

BarryD2

BarryD2 wrote: »

Trolling? Cricket gets very little patchy coverage in the Irish media except on the odd occasion like recent days.

And we're getting better at the modern game. And we operate an all Ireland team.

It's a game that is long played in Ireland, Kilkenny in particular had numerous local clubs in the 19th century. When the Gaelic League came in, they simply changed their prowess with bat & ball to hurl & sliotar

I dislike cricket. I will never apologise for that. I think it's elitist, and has indelicately imperial overtones, and my Christ it is boring.

But worst of all, cricket has derived its international stature as a result of the historical imperial dominance of Great Britain, and not for its own sake. If it were otherwise, we'd be accustomed to Sweden playing Russia, or France vs Croatia, or USA vs Netherlands, as in the last two world cups.

I think rugby might come in for similar criticisms, but it's a faster sport and something happens. A game of cricket might never end. You might die there. The idea of it is depressing.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Does it really matter how a sport spreads?

selwyn froggitt

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I dislike cricket. I will never apologise for that. I think it's elitist, and has indelicately imperial overtones, and my Christ it is boring.

But worst of all, cricket has derived its international stature as a result of the historical imperial dominance of Great Britain, and not for its own sake. If it were otherwise, we'd be accustomed to Sweden playing Russia, or France vs Croatia, or USA vs Netherlands, as in the last two world cups.

I think rugby might come in for similar criticisms, but it's a faster sport and something happens. A game of cricket might never end. You might die there. The idea of it is depressing.

Elitist my hoop! I played village cricket for years in Norfolk in England, you haven’t a clue.

namloc1980

Cricket is super game. Really enjoy it. Went to the first day of the test on Wednesday and it was one of the best sporting occasions I've been to. People who say it's boring have never actually watched it and almost always say...."it takes 5 days to play a game????".

Gwynplaine

It's one of a very few sports that I can not, and will not ever watch.

IAMAMORON

It is certainly not an elitist sport in England. People from all walks of life are into the game over there.

Talk to the kids on the streets of Mumbai and they might disagree with it's elitist rep. It is the most popular sport in both Pakistan and India.

The fact remains that it has always received a bad rep in Ireland because of its association with Britishness and the Commonwealth. It is more a victim of its' identity as anything. Let's be honest here, the GAA have never encouraged their members to get involved either.

Op I think your an obvious troll. Complaining about cricket coverage has to be one of the most unrealistic rants I have ever heard in a while, are you foooking serious like? On what channel? Turn the station over or turn off your radio if the half hour it could have received got in your way. Waffler.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I dislike cricket. I will never apologise for that. I think it's elitist, and has indelicately imperial overtones, and my Christ it is boring.

But worst of all, cricket has derived its international stature as a result of the historical imperial dominance of Great Britain, and not for its own sake. If it were otherwise, we'd be accustomed to Sweden playing Russia, or France vs Croatia, or USA vs Netherlands, as in the last two world cups.

I think rugby might come in for similar criticisms, but it's a faster sport and something happens. A game of cricket might never end. You might die there. The idea of it is depressing.

All that really shows is your lack of understanding of the game. There is nothing elitist in it at all, in fact there is probably no other sport that brings different social groups together in the same way.

I was fortunate enough to have tickets in the grand stand for the first day of the first West Indies test at Lords a few years back (Courtney Walsh and Curtley Ambrose’s last tour of England, so it was more than a few years ago).

Sat next to us we’re an elderly very posh couple from Norfolk, proper barking mad toffs. In front of us were two elderly Jamaican gents, first generation, pork pie hat wearing lads. With them were their two east London second generation Jamaican sons.

There is no other place, other than inside a cricket ground, that these six people would ever interact, but they spent the day chatting, laughing, sharing food and generally having a great time. All because they shared a live for what is, a beautiful game.

Berserker

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I dislike cricket. I will never apologise for that. I think it's elitist, and has indelicately imperial overtones, and my Christ it is boring.

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I think rugby might come in for similar criticisms, but it's a faster sport and something happens. A game of cricket might never end. You might die there. The idea of it is depressing.

Cricket is one of the most inclusive games in the world. The children in the slums in India spend their lives playing the game. It's their national game. On the flip side, some of the most wealthiest people in world play it also. Have you ever attended a game? Nothing like that atmosphere at a cricket game involving India.

BarryD2

BarryD2 wrote: »

It's a game that is long played in Ireland, Kilkenny in particular had numerous local clubs in the 19th century. When the Gaelic League came in, they simply changed their prowess with bat & ball to hurl & sliotar

Definitely overegging that particular "long-played in Ireland" pudding. The first record of cricket being played in Ireland is only in 1792 (Dublin) and it is only first recorded in Kilkenny as recently as 1829. These are easily verifiable facts.

Like the "Irish in the British Army" revisionism (Irish Catholics were, in fact, banned from the British Army until the latter half of the 18th century but that never gets mentioned) cricket's heyday is intrinsically bound up only with the 19th century, the heyday of the British colonial boot on the Irish. Sheer coincidence, of course.

The history of cricket in County Kilkenny

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Deleted User wrote: »

Definitely overegging that particular "long-played in Ireland" pudding. The first record of cricket being played in Ireland is only in 1792 (Dublin) and it is only first recorded in Kilkenny as recently as 1829. These are easily verifiable facts.

Like the "Irish in the British Army" revisionism (Irish Catholics were, in fact, banned from the British Army until the latter half of the 18th century but that never gets mentioned) cricket's heyday is intrinsically bound up only with the 19th century, the heyday of the British colonial boot on the Irish. Sheer coincidence, of course.

The history of cricket in County Kilkenny

must everything be a political struggle against British imperialism for you?

The core of cricket is based around the village green, it is the natural heart of small communities and the cricket club often doubles up as a local hall for 50th birthday parties and the odd wedding reception.

when the GAA came along it did two things, it wrapped itself in politics, so anyone that wasn't a member was not truly Irish and it then banned its members from playing "Garrison Games". It also bases itself at the heart of village life.

The fact that GAA killed off one of the most popular sports in the country is nothing more than a statement of fact.

https://www.cricketireland.ie/about/history

bobbyss

When Ireland played England recently I got the distinct impression the sports readers did not understand the scores they were reading out.

Strumms

Aegir wrote: »

must everything be a political struggle against British imperialism for you?

The core of cricket is based around the village green, it is the natural heart of small communities and the cricket club often doubles up as a local hall for 50th birthday parties and the odd wedding reception.

when the GAA came along it did two things, it wrapped itself in politics, so anyone that wasn't a member was not truly Irish and it then banned its members from playing "Garrison Games". It also bases itself at the heart of village life.

The fact that GAA killed off one of the most popular sports in the country is nothing more than a statement of fact.

https://www.cricketireland.ie/about/history

I’d be a massive fan of football and hurling but as an institution the mindset of ‘hardcore GAA people’ can be beyond backwards, toxic and inward looking in my experience even to this day. It’s not surprising to be reading the above regarding their behavior towards people who simply preferred to invest their time and passion in other sports which didn’t originate in Ireland.

s7ryf3925pivug

It was our national sport before we made up something to imitate hurling.

We were well ahead of England immediately after they became world champions. Then we were thrashed in the fourth innings so badly that we broke multiple records.

It was our first match as a test nation. Only 10 countries get to be test nations. So we're tenth best in the world, which is good.

People here have hostile attitudes because it's associated with being middle class and protestant. Most other former British colonies really like it though.

salmocab

Kamden Great Rim wrote: »

It was our national sport before we made up something to imitate hurling.

We were well ahead of England immediately after they became world champions. Then we were thrashed in the fourth innings so badly that we broke multiple records.

It was our first match as a test nation. Only 10 countries get to be test nations. So we're tenth best in the world, which is good.

People here have hostile attitudes because it's associated with being middle class and protestant. Most other former British colonies really like it though.

Second match as a test nation and there are 12 test nations.

padd b1975

ToddyDoody wrote: »

How's the women's game?

Shocking.

Massive gap in terms of skills.

Much larger than soccer.

Canis Lupus

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I dislike cricket. I will never apologise for that. I think it's elitist, and has indelicately imperial overtones, and my Christ it is boring.

But worst of all, cricket has derived its international stature as a result of the historical imperial dominance of Great Britain, and not for its own sake. If it were otherwise, we'd be accustomed to Sweden playing Russia, or France vs Croatia, or USA vs Netherlands, as in the last two world cups.

I think rugby might come in for similar criticisms, but it's a faster sport and something happens. A game of cricket might never end. You might die there. The idea of it is depressing.

They've the Big Bash League in Australia, very family orientated, it's designed as the name might suggest to let the batters swing for the rafters. It's not bad at all actually. None of the crap that are tests etc.

s7ryf3925pivug

Cricket is only upper class, elitist or imperialist in the minds of some people in Britain and Ireland who focus too much on social class and British imperialism. In other countries it is not associated with social class or British imperialism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sportskeeda.com/amp/cricket/these-5-indian-cricketers-emerged-from-poverty-and-are-earning-millions-today