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Russell Hadd · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 181

An impromptu lesson on the rules of cricket using the highlights of the test series in South Africa. They wouldn't leave the room and all want to know when they can go to a real game. What have I done!!!???

Has a chinaman ever bowled a chinaman before? If not I could have sown the seeds this week!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Quite a few years ago there was a course book that had a reading activity that tried to explain the rules of cricket. I can't remember the level or the name of the course book. Anyone remember?

teacheringreece · Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 79

I've done cricket lessons before. You can do all kinds of stuff, reading comprehension, listening comprehension, language for rules (zero conditionals mainly). I've also taken them out to play in summer schools and they normally love it. I remember one occassion two self-styled Russian hardcases saying to me: "It's very interesting this game cricket. I would like to find out more about it". Japanese students are sometimes quite good at batting because they play baseball, and Japanese girls like running around in groups after the ball.

Generally outside the ex British colonies no-one in the world even knows what the ball looks like so they tend to be very interested.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Great problem that has puzzled me for years : why did cricket catch on in the Raj but football did not ?

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

I think it could have had something to do with " Only for the lower classes"
and football being played by the enlisted men whereas the officers played cricket. those with time to play cricket emulated the officers and thus it trickled down the strata into the street and alley.
I could be wrong but it fits the image doesn't it?

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Loath as I am to discuss the greatest ever cure for insomnia, I think the answer could be related to chronology. Association Football developed in the UK from about the mid-1860s, whereas cricket had been around a lot longer. I guess cricket was firmly established in the Indian sub-continent by the time football crossed the oceans.
Association Football was a middle-class affair before it achieved mass popularity.

flavoursome · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 12

I guess some of it has to do with physique as well
I've heard people say that Indians are not so naturally disposed body wise to be professional footballers
How many Indians play in any English league? -
no role models for the indian kids to emulate

Can you imagine an Indian Beckam?

Maybe it's a religous thing to - you cant exactly do a neat little glancing header with a ruddy great turban on yer bonce now , can you?

Rice Paddy Daddy · Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 425 Location: Japan

EFL cricket lessons ESL?

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I thought the upper class's interest in ball games was confined to kicking peasants around.
Must disagree re the soccer schools: 'Arrow's on an 'ill, so they couldn't 'ave laid out a football pitch. Eton was full of silly punts (!) and there was no room for a pitch in Winchester on account of the cathedral.

Russell Hadd · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 181

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Any Scot who supports England is clearly in need of psychiatric care. For my part, I'll gladly support whoever England plays in the World Cup, with the exception of Greece (if they're there), as I suspect that their perfromance may be chemically assisted.

Russell Hadd · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 181

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Tony Blair should be picked for the lions. If they're not hungry, I'm sure the sharks will oblige.

Russell Hadd · Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 181

Lionel Blair would make a better outside-half than Tony Blair with his neat side steps and easy name alteration to El Lion. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'd think Tony Blair's Scottish ancestry would be too distant for him to be considered as a Scottish representitive. Mind you he'd probably do a better job than that shower of useless fools who pretended to represent us in this year's 6 nations. I don't know which is in a worse state the SFA or SRFU.

At least Cricket Scotland is making progress. What a great Summer we can look forward to, as well as the Totesport we've got the World Cup qualifiers and the visit of the mighty Aussies in August. Scottish Cricket has never been in a better state and with a steady influx of South Asian players the number of clubs will continue to expand and competition will grow.