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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: CRICKET
Message-ID: <1349@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 23:08:23 EST
Article-I.D.: dciem.1349
Posted: Sat Feb  2 23:08:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 01:08:44 EST
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: 


>
>The best thing that can be done is to organize a "good" cricket team
>with "Test Player" caliber and play the game by inviting foreign cricket
>teams.  Last year, some attempts were made by officials of our league by
>inviting cricket players like Sunil Gavasker, Sir Garfield Sobers, Colin
>Cowdrey, etc., in the Chicago area but nothing much could be done after
>that.  But, if the effort is made by all the cricket playing leagues in
>the entire U.S.A, some success is possible.

In Toronto, teams sometimes have a Test player (usually West Indian)
playing in League games, sometimes for the season, but more commonly
just for a couple of games.  These players bring out a few spectators,
but only those who already play or are interested in cricket.  The mass
of the public doesn't care.  Toronto is a bit of a centre of cricket in
North America, having over 80 teams in 9 sections of a league, and yet
it is rare that we get any mention in the papers, radio or TV.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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