Someone, go get Rani ‘Dil Bole Hadipaa‘ Mukerji.
Maybe, we need someone with a pu**y in our cricket team.
Perhaps, a ‘she‘ can accomplish what the current bunch of pussies in the Indian cricket team can’t.
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happy now? ur dreams have come true isnt it ?
how much money u betted on pakistan?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Kiddo, the better team won.
Chill.
some crackpots who are hardcore paki supporters like you will not realise that this is the first time that pak has beaten india in a icc event
still india has a record of 6-1 against pakistan in ICC events
winning and losing is a part of game. all is not lost, we can still make it to the semis.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: you will not realise that this is the first time that pak has beaten india in a icc event
First time?
This is what the Times of India writes today :
Given your past record of trash talk, we’re more inclined to believe the Times.
2. You write: some crackpots who are hardcore paki supporters
You are a complete retard.
The better team won.
3. You write: all is not lost, we can still make it to the semis
Dream on.
Do you have daughter(s) and do they play cricket?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Nobody plays cricket here (in the U.S.).
Yes, Better team(work) always wins.
In India, Cricketers are hailed as demi-gods, and Cricket is seen as soul-saving game.
Here was this record – “Pakistan never won India in an ICC event”. Is it a record?
What next?
Looking at past stats, and saying like “Pakistan never won India in May month matches”, “Pakistan never won India in Greenland soil (coz no matches happened there)”. Good that it is broken. May have been useful for a punch dialogue in Vijayakant movies, when he beats up terrorists in his movies!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We agree. 😉
What exactly do you mean by “Nobody plays cricket here in the US?” – are you alluding to your offspring (which was the question) or to the general populace?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Persistent, aren’t you?
What part of Nobody plays cricket here in the U.S. do you find hard to understand?
We like Dan Brown and all that but we promise you there are no hidden codes in Nobody plays cricket here in the U.S. 😉
SI,
There are over 100 teams amateur teams in NJ alone playing cricket. America has more than 20,000 registered players and three weeks ago in Toronto, the USA U-19 team qualified to play in the 2010 U-19 World Cup in New Zealand next January. Three of the players on the team are from NJ! Cricket is alive in this country and sooner rather than later it’s going to thrive.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Cricket to an average American is:
Also India doesn’t need Rani because they’ve already got plenty of pussies in their team. Why do you think Shahid Afridi’s eyes light up when he faces them? 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Funny.
Hey baby you are a player are you? Have you ever touched a cricket bat in your life? Do you know what is a cork ball other than whatever you read in wikipedia?
If you call Yuvraj and Sachin a pu*sy, what are you? [Trash Talk]
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Our cricket players are paid richly to win.
“Nobody plays cricket here in the U.S.”
Nobody is literally nobody as you have clarified. Then what is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national_cricket_team?
I think I’m right as per my previous comment. You have no idea of what is cricket. I guess your boyfriend told you “Baby, India lost to Pak in cricket” and you hurriedly came up with this article without any insights??
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Like all schmucks, you think you are too smart.
Here take this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_women%27s_national_baseball_team
Does the existence of a Wiki link make baseball a popular game in India?
2. As we said the other day, Cricket to an average American is:
I was persistent because that statement you made was pretty preposterous. Agreed, cricket is not popular here, but Nobody plays it in the US? Here’s why it is untrue, atleast in Texas. ( Provided you agree that nobody meant “nobody”)
A list of the grounds at which the North Texas Cricket Association plays its matches :
http://www.ntcricket.com/common/pages/public/iv/Grounds.aspx?
The Dallas Cricket League :
http://www.dallascricket.net/
The Houston Indian Cricket League:
http://www.hicconline.com/
The Central Texas Cricket League:
http://www.centraltxcricket.org/index.php
Apart from corporate and local asian association teams, there are universities which have official cricket teams. Some of them being:
UT-Austin – Longhorn Cricket Club
Texas A&M- Aggie Cricket Club
Rice University
UT-San Antonio
Texas State University-San Marcos
Texas Tech University – Rangers Cricket Club
University of Houston- Cougars Cricket Club
Southern Methodist University- Mustangs Cricket Club
UT-Arlington
UT-Dallas
Each of these universities have anywhere between 1 to 8 cricket teams playing in their league. For example, UT-San Antonio has one, UT-Arlington two, and Texas A&M has eight teams in its league. Assuming there are eleven players a side atleast , you would have a minimum of 2500-3000 people playing professional level cricket in Texas alone. California and New Jersey (where you are based from?) have an equal, if not larger base of pro-cricket players. Try searching up.
Most of the university teams are recognised, funded and approved, which means there actually is something called cricket which universities play against each other. As is with all other “popular” sports in the US, which gain their popularity starting from college level sporting competitions, this relatively unpopular sport also has its patronage, however insignificant it may seem in contrast to other types of sport.
So somebody surely plays cricket in the US.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: I was persistent because that statement you made was pretty preposterous.
Exceptions don’t make the rule.
A few desis screaming howzat in between trips to the Swaminarayan Mandir and Patel Brothers doesn’t mean Cricket exists in the U.S. 😉
Well, that’s what you said. NOBODY plays cricket here in the US. Maybe you acted smart, for once- it’s not the readers who are. That’s why I asked for a clarification and then posted a response. It’s okay being wrong once in a while, SI. Come on 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You acted: Maybe you acted smart
When you are smart, there’s no need for acting. 😉
2. You write: I was persistent because that statement you made was pretty preposterous.
As we said earlier, a few desis yelling howzat after two bottles of Kingfisher beer and in between trips to the Swaminarayan Mandir and Patel Brothers doesn’t mean Cricket exists in the U.S.
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Change your statement then. Cricket exists in the US, but is not popular.
Even searchindia is not that popular like behindwoods or galatta for instance. (assuming its a film review website- on services to expats it may or may not be popular, that’s not the point.) Does that work out to your site being non-existent on the internet? The same way in which you say cricket is nonexistent because the average american doesn’t know what it is, the average hindi/tamil/english cinema viewer does not know what your site is.
You exist on the internet, but are nowhere in the significant category to the average expat/NRI.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Even searchindia is not that popular like behindwoods or galatta for instance…the average hindi/tamil/english cinema viewer does not know what your site is…You … are nowhere in the significant category to the average expat/NRI.
Ingratitude, thy name is desi.
You can be sure that when you educate a few of these baboons, expose these quadrupeds to some culture, show them the world and lift them out of the cesspool of their ignorance, voila, these ingrates will surely turn on you.
From today, we’re only gonna tell you how Nayantara follows Ingrid Bergman and Vijay walks in the footsteps of Humphrey Bogart. 😉
Will serve you mooncalves right. (now, now Gandhiji, mooncalfs is also correct usage).
Mera Desis Mahaan.
In today’s Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125419832128248533.html
There are youth academies in New Jersey (Dreamcricket, US Cricket Academy, Indoor Cricket USA), Brooklyn, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc.
Come on readers, keep posting more evidence to tear down the wall of resistance SI is putting up.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Another article on cricket by, of course, another desi.
Proves our point that other than desis, no one plays, cares, understands or knows about cricket here.
El Niño, you go girl! let SI have it.
Will Pak deliberately lose to Aus to kick Ind out? Do we have any Paki visitors in SI?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mooncalves
exists
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calfs
exists
but
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mooncalfs
doesn’t.. so mooncalfs may not be correct. 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: so mooncalfs may not be correct.
1. Mooncalfs is fine.
Naan oru thadava sonna nooru thadava sonna mathiri 🙂
2. SI is not the only respectable publication to use the word mooncalfs.
Example of Mooncalfs in other equally respectable publications:
a. The Genre Artist – By Carlo Rotella, New York Times Magazine
Carlo Rotella is the director of American Studies at Boston College.
Excerpt:
b. The Literary Darwinists
By D. T. MAX
New York Times,
Published: November 6, 2005
Excerpt:
c. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
This book has 895 reviews/comments on Amazon.com with 550 readers giving 5-star.
Daniel Quinn uses the word mooncalfs in the book.
Excerpt from the book.:
3. You write: Do we have any Paki visitors in SI?
Yes, we think so.
Haha. Ingratitude?
Come on SI. Is’nt it obvious when I post comments out here that I’m your patron? I just said that just like SI has its patrons and audience, cricket has its audience here in the US of A.
Anything that has an audience/patronage, exists for sure. Just that the popularity levels are different. So rather than trying to explain your statement that “nobody” meant “nobody” and then jumping wagon to tell “existing= every american should be playing it or knowing about it”, backtrack and accept it is being played in the US.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: Is’nt it obvious when I post comments out here that I’m your patron?
Yes, we know. 🙂 Just kidding.
We were resorting to hyperbole to suggest that cricket has not flourished on the American soil and has few adherents here.
For the most part, the game still remains the preserve of desis.
2. For cricket to flourish on this soil, we need big sponsors. Ultimately, it boils down to the amount of money.
Until and unless big money flows into cricket here, the game will continue to remain an oddity for mainstream Americans.
In India, cricket is getting even bigger because of the marriage of Bollywood and cricket lately.
There are no such catalysts here. Mere wishful thinking like Gora’s one day it’ll be big here
On a serious note, we had organised a tournament in summer here in Texas. Didn’t have any problem finding sponsors. The game had a fair reach to the extent of the sponsors knowing about its existence even before we approached them with the thought that we might have to explain the entire structure of the game.
Maybe it is just a matter of time before the big bucks come in. It’s just that a radical initiative needs to be taken. The Americans seem pretty open-minded to it, and T20 has the potential to make it big. Btw, some Americans play cricket here, and they pick up the game damn fast. I hate to think what would happen to the ball if they had the likes of beefy Ramirez-ish junta playing cricket. 😛
SearchIndia.com Responds:
For cricket to reach into higher orbit here, we need a major catalyst.
One strategy could be to get Hispanics involved in the game via/with the help of Univision.
Don Lockerbie, the CEO of USA Cricket Association is a non-desi. The USACA Western Conference Tournament was held in Minneapolis two months ago. Minneapolis!
Check out these what these two ladies had to say after they came out to watch part of the tournament.
http://www.vimeo.com/5885375
It’s not wishful thinking.
With clever marketing and people who will actively recruit fans, such as the organizers in Minnesota through publicizing the tourney on the NPR affiliate there, people will gladly show up. There were close to 1,000 people who came to watch the matches on the Saturday of that tournament. At least 70% of the people were non-desi, close to proportionate with the average population, and most stayed for at least three to four hours of the 50-over games, even though the majority had never been to a live cricket match before.
On the following day, just about every one of the 500 or so people who came out stayed for all seven hours of play. The tournament had eight sponsors, fairly impressive considering the state of the economy and the fact that people allegedly don’t know about cricket in this country. According to one of the organizers, several schoolteachers who came to the event requested info on where to buy cricket equipment to start programs in their schools and integrate the game into gym classes.
All it takes is a little bit of effort.
This non-desi is leading a crusade to spread the game across America.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: There were close to 1,000 people who came to watch the matches on the Saturday of that tournament
Were there buxom cheerleaders? 😉
2. Watched the video link (above).
Wow, the girls know about 20/20.
We are impressed.
3. You write: This non-desi is leading a crusade to spread the game across America.
The last time a non-desi (George W.Bush) spoke about the crusade, it turned out to be a mega-disaster (both Iraq and Afghanistan). 😉