Domesticating a Cricket Fan

It didn't take much for me to become an Australia fan.

Cricketpalooza

The past few weeks in the life of an American cricket fan have been both great and disappointing.

Great for just the sheer amount of international cricket that has been on recently.

Disappointing for the fact that they've all been on at kind of bad times.

I can catch the end of the Australian-South Africa, Zimbabwe-New Zealand, and India-England matches, but I've been in classes for the most part.  I can watch the beginning of the West Indies-Bangladesh test days, while Pakistan-Sri Lanka is pretty much out of the question.

As frustrating as that is, that's kind of the problem with trying to watch this wonderful sport in America.

I'll be able to watch pretty much all of the Australia home tests, but other than that, almost everything is either too late, too early, or when I have class.

The ball-by-ball live text from Cricinfo and the like is a life saver.

As much as I would like to wake up early to watch the Australia-South Africa tests, it's just not feasable for me. That's no fun.

This Week in Cricinfo Pictures 2: Electric Boogaloo

I meant to write a post about the Twenty20 Champions League, but I forgot to when it was still going on.  But here's my feelings: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.  So lets move on to more Cricinfo pictures.

This Week in Cricinfo Pictures

I've pointed out before that Cricinfo has some rather amusing pictures on it.  So I've decided to start a (hopefully) weekly feature on the blog called 'This Week in Cricinfo Pictures'. 

Appreciating Mike Hussey

Michael Hussey won all 3 Man of the Match awards in the Sri Lanka test series, and not suprisingly the Man of the Series award.  He may have gone through struggles not all that long ago, but because of his recent sucesses, he is clearly the Savior.

Debutant's Ball

I had my first cricket dream the other night. 

I was a batsman for New Zealand (I support Australia, of course, but I was playing for New Zealand in my dream...go figure).  I was making my test debut, coming in to bat.  I got bowled first ball.  Even in my dreams I suck balls at cricket.

A (Semi) Interesting Question/Concept Thingy

After a week in which I saw Australia pick up a test win (Yay!), I came up with the question while on a long car ride.

If you were to make a test team out of one player from all 10 test teams (2 from the team you support), what would it be?

As an Australian supports, I would pick 2 Australians and one from Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, and Zimbabwe.

So anyway here's mine.

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
5. Ian Bell
6. Kane Williamson
7. Tim Paine
8. Brett Lee
9. Dale Steyn
10. Ray Price
11. Wahab Riaz

I think it's sort of an interesting concept.  So, if anyone is out there reading this, your opinions please.