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Subject: [Leica] The Commonwealth, Cricket, &c.
From: n.wajsman at chello.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu May 13 14:22:33 2004
References: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10405121121270.23724-100000@mucho.2alpha.com>

Peter,

Cricket is the most popular sport on the Indian subcontinent, home to
1.5 billion people or so. I would assume that the players you saw were
from there (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). 

When I was in grad school at the University of Florida in the 80s, there
were enough students and professors from that part of the world that
there was an annual student-faculty cricket match (of the 1-day, wimpy
variety, the real thing is 5 days).

Nathan

Peter Klein wrote:
> 
> 
> This weekend, I actually saw a bunch of guys playing cricket.  In a
> public park in my humble little just-north-of-Seattle suburb.  It is
> the first time I have ever seen anyone play cricket in the U.S. save
> for a formal demonstration.
> 
> They players were fairly dark-skinned black guys, and they were speaking a
> language I could not identify from a distance, but it was not English.
> Would anyone have any idea where they might be from?  I asked an Ethiopian
> lady I know, but I think she confused cricket with croquet.
> 
> --Peter
> 
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