Cricket

[AussieMick]

(10-17-2021 05:36 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  "When Chicago hosted Milwaukee in a 1859 cricket match, Abraham Lincoln was among the spectators."

https://www.dreamcricket.com/articles/hi...ii--1850s/

Argh! So there was a potential trivia question if only I had pursued it enough. What , I wonder, did Lincoln think of the game .... no doubt he itched to take a bat and whack the ball over silly mid off.

Thanks, Roger , for the link. I didnt realise cricket still held the interest of so many Americans. It can be , i admit , a very boring game. But so can other sports. At least with cricket a person doesnt need to be supremely fit or strong or fast.

Women have taken up the game. And of course Sri Lanka, India, and the West Indies love cricket.

These days there is a shorter version of the game which is ideal for television and betting. ... I saw on that link of American history of cricket that in the 1850s betting was common.

I recall that the French regard cricket with disdain. .... enough said.