ICC WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS 2018 : Zimbabwe V/s Nepal, Bulawayo

[ZIMDOGGY]

You don't like hockey? Quite a skillful sport really. India are a bit over-hyped in hockey also, they haven't a world tournament in ages. Pakistan hockey is in really dire shape.

Ice hockey is a real sport. Don't know anything about field hockey, lol. But I'm not a fan of either sport.

In my youth I was addicted to NBA and NFL, but I've lost all interest in both. Stil enjoying shooting hoops and playing flag football though I haven't done so in ages.

how often does cricket get a run in the US?

Last year when i was there for a few months i dont seem to recall struggling to find any cricketing reference.
alot of indian types floating round happy to talk shop.

pretty sure i saw some cricketing references on TV.

In 2015 when Jarryd Hayne made the NFL briefly off the street rugby league and union was getting a bit of hype, yanks were talking to me about it in the street, but pretty sure that died down just as quick.

[The Robot]

Bangladesh fans has been the biggest arrogant in last five years, wins any series before the start of the series.

Like I said its an Asian thing.

Only Asian fans who have mastercraft the photoshop art, with Taskin holding MSD 's chopped head before the start of the Asia Cup final 2016, that reached the differant level.

We might be the "only" ones to have mastered photoshop, but we all have our niche. For example, Indian celebrities are renowned for their crass comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_P6rfVbjZg

Navjot Singh Sidhu is an actual politician in India, not just a teenage cricket fan messing around with photoshop. You won't see politicians in BD talking shit about other countries.

Now lets have a look at some Pakistani TV shows, shall we:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPCKfkXmew

Yes, this guy bears some resemblence to Mohammad Rafique, but why pick the darkest BD player and use him for a parody if not to make some racist point? Why not pick a "Pakistani" or more "Aryan" looking player like Khaled Mahmud or Mashrafee Mortaza?

BD media doesn't make racist parodies about other teams either.

Our fans are obnoxious, yes. But no one would say we're worse than our neighbors unless they've been smacked on the head repeatedly.

Sidhu was banned from commentry box for improper comments just like Dean Jones. Asian ex players cross limits specially when it comes to India against Pakistan. Bangladesh ex players never comes in news, but at present Bangladesh fans are more vigour even they attacked Sudhir Gautam & Chacha two biggest indo-pak fan

[Kriterion_BD]

how often does cricket get a run in the US?

Last year when i was there for a few months i dont seem to recall struggling to find any cricketing reference.
alot of indian types floating round happy to talk shop.

pretty sure i saw some cricketing references on TV.

In 2015 when Jarryd Hayne made the NFL briefly off the street rugby league and union was getting a bit of hype, yanks were talking to me about it in the street, but pretty sure that died down just as quick.

Cricket is still regarded in the US as something slightly less exotic than Chinese foot binding rituals.

Couple weeks ago I was on a 3.5 hour flight to LA and one of the two women sitting next to me struck up a conversation. I casually threw in that I watch cricket - I don't remember why I would do that, maybe because the girl mentioned she played softball in high school. At any rate, both women's curiosities were immediately piqued. I could have told them I had 10 million dollars worth of diamonds taped to my dick and they would probably not have been as interested, lol.

The woman my age was a former softball player and the older woman's daughter was a current softball player so both were interested in cricket. I spent the next 3 hours answering all their questions and explaining almost everything. You know you're having an excellent discussion with an American when they pull out their laptop and google "cricket field" and ask you "what is 'on side?'" You know you've had a thorough discussion when you explain what a short-leg or silly point fielder's basic job is.

As far as seeing cricket on the mainstream media or consciousness...its not really there yet in the US. And it won't be unless the US makes a major ICC event or at least gets to host one. Soccer got big here in 1994 after we hosted the FIFA WC, and soccer was still magnitudes more known back then compared to cricket in 2018.

Cricket is still by and large the butt of jokes here in the US, and Americans erroneously believe that its far too complex for them to understand. If Americans can understand football, they can easily grasp cricket.