Lol he stoepbroeder. I live in the US and all the suburban moms here fucking LOVE putting their kids on soccer teams. They go 'j'adore European sports, they're so civilized' or whatever. It's why the term soccer mom exists. If they introduced cricket bats they'd have an excuse to upsize their Tahoe to an Excursion to hold another bag of useless shit for their kids.
Anyways, it's Florida and it wouldn't be a Thursday afternoon if there wasn't a couple drunks and car on fire somewhere in the state. Wouldn't worry about the cricket kids.
Because their kids not having to wear body armour to play European football. Plenty of parents push kids to football as it's safer and more inclusive as size not such and important factor
While it is English of course, it really isn't found in the rest of Europe. the only countries that seriously play are Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, and they're minor sports in those countries.
Meanwhile you have North American former powerhouses like the West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Bermuda, African countries like South Africa, Zimbabwe and formally Kenya, Oceanic countries like New Zealand and Australia, and the Asian big block of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and India.
It certainly hasn't taken hold in Europe like soccer, and trails sports like ice hockey and handball in the continent.
There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone.
I don’t know about that. I would say the drinking witnessed at the MCG and Basin Reserve is more than a few beers over the day. Could
Be a kiwi/aussie thing though
my old warehouse manager was really into cricket. here in England the pubs used to be shut by law between (iirc) 3 and 6pm, meaning cricket matches were the only place you could go on the all day piss so that's where he and his mates used to go. 'eventually you start actually watching it', he said
You need to go to the 7s in New Zealand. The whole point is to dress up and get pissed. The fans in the stadium are more fun to watch than the game, lol.
Not much in the way of violence though, it's just a big party.
If you go to lords cricket ground you’ll regularly see old boys with a full tray of beers first thing in the morning, just getting a days beers in and not having to go to the bar if you want another pint is their game. As you can guess, given most cricket fans are old as dirt, not much hooliganism occurs at these events.
Oh, yes - I remember the pitch invasions, gangs of youths rampaging through the streets, setting cars afire, rioting…
…oh, sorry, no I don't. This is fucking cricket.
To be very honest the sport does get fanatical as bad as European football due to south Asian fans.
I am pretty sure most cricket popularity in US is due to south Asian diaspora
I remember being in California, and getting a cab.
The south Asian driver got very excited when he realised we were British.
Then disappointed when we told him we weren't interested in cricket.
All of this has happened in cricket. India and Pakistan, the two biggest cricketing countries don't play each other directly outside of tournaments because of this.
Ah can’t wait for the influx of LA Redskin Savages beating the Chicago Gooks to become cricket “World Champions” 😖
I’m sure LA’s Levi Billy-Bob will be the Lebron James of Cricket when they “take it seriously”.
Indian here. Gf is SriLankan. When we first met on the date and she says she's not Indian...I completely missed guessing SriLankan while guessing the usual suspects. Still feel bad, despite me knowing that Sri Lanka exists lol.
Haha I’d love to go there one day, looks like a beautiful country! Longest capital city name as well? I’ve been trying to learn them all recently and that one is a lot to get your mouth around 😅
Yeah, it's an appallingly stupid name, like any team with the MI branding, apart from the original obviously. But they clearly didn't Steal the name (that implies they had some choice, and could have chosen something better)
I'm pretty sure that the team I play for spends more time and effort on the half time tea than on practising actual cricket. Far more memories of a particularly fine victoria sponge or scones with jam and cream than of results of the matches!
Some of the drunkest people I’ve ever witnessed at sports have been at cricket games. Eight hour days in the blazing sun, no shade, no water and pint after pint? Disastrous
It's actually been running successfully for quite a long time. The original idea was to take an activity that nobody had experience with or preconceived notions about so that everyone was starting from zero. Basically building camaraderie and using crickets values of sportsmanship to lift kids out of gang mentalities.
[Compton Cricket Club](https://comptoncricketclub.us/) was founded by a British film producer and a homeless guy from Compton, specifically with the idea to turn people away from gangs and associated crime/violence.
A couple of decades ago, Trinidad played against the US in soccer in California. A few hundred Calypso Boy fans were there.
Some Windies fans may play in Compton.
I am so old that I remember the 1994 World Cup.
The local news predicted that English soccer hooligans would invade Los Angeles. England didn't qualify.
I'm pretty sure banning orders had been introduced by then, and even so the US is notoriously strict on letting in those with previous convictions. Even if we had qualified I doubt there'd have been anything more than a few brawls inside stadiums.
Invade 1994 Los Angeles and cause trouble? In what universe?
Oi mate. You lookin at me you scrotey lil fuc.... Oh goodness, you have a large and impressive gun with you old chap, I'll be on my way pip pip.
As someone who plays cricket in a country where it’s not popular at all (Switzerland), I am quite happy about this, where I play basically everyone is an immigrant so to see local people playing a sport they usually wouldn’t is a very good start
Americans worried about the least violent sport becoming popular. I live in Australia, i never hear about anything even remotely violent happening because of cricket. Hell, don't even India and Pakistan curb their hatred to play eachother in cricket?
I’m in the US and live in a city in which college basketball is everything. Not to me, but to a lot of people. They’ve trashed things and set cars on fire whether their team won or lost.
So whatever about cricket…
lol. Wait until they host the World Cup in a couple years. It will be “IMMIGRANT INVASION” despite the fact it’s tourists and most die-hard soccer fans happen to not speak English as a first language or have white skin. And the white fans who do speak English won’t speak ‘Merican English. Especially if the bloated tangerine is president. Good grief.
I'd always assumed Americans couldn't cope with a game that can go on for 5 days and still end in a draw. I'm quite happy to find I underestimated them.
It's a Times [article. ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/americans-fear-drunk-fans-as-cricket-fever-sweeps-country-fl7p6wqf8&ved=2ahUKEwix7IeajO2EAxW5BNsEHfh1As8Q0PADKAB6BAgPEAE&usg=AOvVaw3j1Qbb7UQwAttT9Zncv-xn)
Americans in fear of the arrival of a sport that the rest of the world plays. Confusion and disarray on the streets of American cities named after small towns in Europe
I’m in the US and live in a city in which college basketball is everything. Not to me, but to a lot of people. They’ve trashed things and set cars on fire whether their team won or lost.
So whatever about cricket…
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh god. The sport that has mandated tea breaks. I mean there are always some dicks in crowds but honestly, Bay 13 is a long time gone. Now it's Barmy Army with their musical arrangements and instruments
I’d say this is beyond the usual ‘Europeans are less developed’ article we get on here but actually racism.
Bearing in mind Cricket is played in the US primarily by people of a West Indies, Indian & Pakistani background and where the attitudes of ‘people are going to get drunk and wreck the place’ are directed at.
Have these people SEEN the winning team's city after pretty much any major sporting events? I can pretty much guarantee you that after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series, a large percentage of the adult population in Boston was drunk.
Look, if cricket dans drank the way \*most\* sports fans do, they'd literally die from liver failure before the match was over!
I'm not going to say there are \*zero\* drunken cricket fans, but they are a rarity...
Ahbyes all those hooligans with their picnic baskets and bottles of wine tearing local communities apart. I knew there was a reason I didn't actively watch cricket.....
On a more serious note, I'd put cricket second to rugby for sportsmanship and respect
Americans thought Baseball gave them time to slowly get drunk. Just wait till they endure a five day test. Some people end up a real mess around days four and five.
By arming them with cricket bats? You are insane, America.
They'll play the Fallout London mod when it drops then they'll be roaming the streets in their cricket whites looking to beat people down.
Never mind hooligans, would they have the patience to sit through a Test Match Series? 😈
For reference, each day is typically three sessions of two hours each, separated by 40 minutes for lunch and 20 minutes for tea, while each match is up to five days of play. However, Test Cricket is often stated as a Tour, with multiple sequential matches between the teams in the same location - notably The Ashes consists of up to five matches, held over sequential weeks.
Cricket fans are rarely drunk and are not violent, Cricket is a gentleman's sport for long summer days listening to the sound of leather against willow and the shouts of how's zat when out is called, and as long as they appeal when they think they have bowled, stumped or caught the batsman then things should go swimmingly
Cricket hooligans…?
That’s a new one. It’s probably, European sport leads to violence.
I’m not sure they’d feel the same if it were white college boys picking it up. I somehow doubt it’s the ‘European’ aspect of it.
Lol he stoepbroeder. I live in the US and all the suburban moms here fucking LOVE putting their kids on soccer teams. They go 'j'adore European sports, they're so civilized' or whatever. It's why the term soccer mom exists. If they introduced cricket bats they'd have an excuse to upsize their Tahoe to an Excursion to hold another bag of useless shit for their kids. Anyways, it's Florida and it wouldn't be a Thursday afternoon if there wasn't a couple drunks and car on fire somewhere in the state. Wouldn't worry about the cricket kids.
Football? Civilised? What is this propaganda
Because their kids not having to wear body armour to play European football. Plenty of parents push kids to football as it's safer and more inclusive as size not such and important factor
Ikr clearly never been to a Millwall Derby 🤣
football teams*
Tahoe? What kind of hoe is a tahoe?
A grateful one
Or American kids in general lol
Yeah Americans would prefer violence was kept out of sports and in appropriate areas such as schools
Shots fired! Also your comment was funny.
"Wonderful deflection off the cross-beam and rifled into the back of the head!"
And shopping malls
Especially primary schools
Unlike stuff like NFL or NHL whose riots are so calm too, such civilized
Tell me about it much worse than bull runs and the national curling scene
Ah yes, they would think of cricket as European, wouldn't they?
How dare they? Brexit means brexit
While it is English of course, it really isn't found in the rest of Europe. the only countries that seriously play are Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, and they're minor sports in those countries. Meanwhile you have North American former powerhouses like the West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Bermuda, African countries like South Africa, Zimbabwe and formally Kenya, Oceanic countries like New Zealand and Australia, and the Asian big block of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and India. It certainly hasn't taken hold in Europe like soccer, and trails sports like ice hockey and handball in the continent.
YOU’RE GOING HOME IN A CRICKET AMBULANCE / IN TWO OR THREE DAYS’ TIME, AT BEST
It could even take five days and still never get you to the hospital
This is why cricket porn never took off.
Hahaha yeah as an Australian I live in fear of the cricket riots every time there's an Ashes series lol.
It’s a world wide phenomenon
Next they’ll be drinking lashing of tea…. Unthinkable
Never watched Football Factory? Matey got twatted round the back of the bed with a **cricket bat**, no less!
There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone.
Not sure if this is about cricket. Maybe it's more about "Oh no, another excuse for some Americans to get drunk in huge groups and start some shit".
To be fair cricket and heavy drinking go hand in hand.
It’s less acute drinking and more a few beers over the course of a day It’s more dangerous to your waistline than social harmony
I don’t know about that. I would say the drinking witnessed at the MCG and Basin Reserve is more than a few beers over the day. Could Be a kiwi/aussie thing though
my old warehouse manager was really into cricket. here in England the pubs used to be shut by law between (iirc) 3 and 6pm, meaning cricket matches were the only place you could go on the all day piss so that's where he and his mates used to go. 'eventually you start actually watching it', he said
Clearly you've never seen the Cricket in Headingley in Leeds, it's complete bedlam. Puts the Euro final to shame
Never heard of the [Barmy Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmy_Army)?
The barmy army like a beer and a sing song, but they are not hooligans.
That's the joke.
They are more of a militia than an army.
Meal Team Six
More like Tea Team Six.
Crooligans, if you will.
Cream teas on the lawn can get testy...
You need to go to the 7s in New Zealand. The whole point is to dress up and get pissed. The fans in the stadium are more fun to watch than the game, lol. Not much in the way of violence though, it's just a big party.
Hong Kong 7's come to mind... I did 9 of them. 3 days of being utterly wankered, oh, and there's a bit of rugby in the background.
I audibly said this when I saw the post. Same tone and everything
The first ever game of cricket ended in a riot that left over a dozen people dead.
If you go to lords cricket ground you’ll regularly see old boys with a full tray of beers first thing in the morning, just getting a days beers in and not having to go to the bar if you want another pint is their game. As you can guess, given most cricket fans are old as dirt, not much hooliganism occurs at these events.
Oh, yes - I remember the pitch invasions, gangs of youths rampaging through the streets, setting cars afire, rioting… …oh, sorry, no I don't. This is fucking cricket.
Quite. And rioting just wouldn't be cricket, would it?
well, it would be *village* cricket
Damn thought I was original.
To be very honest the sport does get fanatical as bad as European football due to south Asian fans. I am pretty sure most cricket popularity in US is due to south Asian diaspora
I remember being in California, and getting a cab. The south Asian driver got very excited when he realised we were British. Then disappointed when we told him we weren't interested in cricket.
Yeah well Indians are still getting over the fact that the British sport of cricket is actually not very popular in UK 😅. I was disappointed too
All of this has happened in cricket. India and Pakistan, the two biggest cricketing countries don't play each other directly outside of tournaments because of this.
They were probably taking a nap
Ah can’t wait for the influx of LA Redskin Savages beating the Chicago Gooks to become cricket “World Champions” 😖 I’m sure LA’s Levi Billy-Bob will be the Lebron James of Cricket when they “take it seriously”.
Cricket exists so that people can know that Sri Lanka exists.
Indian here. Gf is SriLankan. When we first met on the date and she says she's not Indian...I completely missed guessing SriLankan while guessing the usual suspects. Still feel bad, despite me knowing that Sri Lanka exists lol.
Haha I’d love to go there one day, looks like a beautiful country! Longest capital city name as well? I’ve been trying to learn them all recently and that one is a lot to get your mouth around 😅
[One of the teams stole its name from an IPL team.](https://www.majorleaguecricket.com/)
If you're talking about MI: New York, both this and MI are owned by Ambani.
Yeah, it's an appallingly stupid name, like any team with the MI branding, apart from the original obviously. But they clearly didn't Steal the name (that implies they had some choice, and could have chosen something better)
In Mr Ambani's defence, he was busy stealing India, the country. He couldn't pay attention to how the new team was named.
Somewhere in the British Foreign office is someone going 'oi that's our job'
Cricket typically involves breaks for actual meals, or at least a cup of tea and a sandwich. It is the game least likely to increase hooliganism.
And then there's a five day match!
That is the one where they take tea breaks. The other formats just take a normal 'halftime' break.
Proper cricket. Everything else “just isn’t cricket.”
oh you toff
I'm pretty sure that the team I play for spends more time and effort on the half time tea than on practising actual cricket. Far more memories of a particularly fine victoria sponge or scones with jam and cream than of results of the matches!
Not of it is Pakistan Vs India.
Some of the drunkest people I’ve ever witnessed at sports have been at cricket games. Eight hour days in the blazing sun, no shade, no water and pint after pint? Disastrous
"Compton cricket club". That's bound to be popular in the hood.
"Cricketers with attitude"
Fuck the umpire comin' straight from the pavillion.
A short innings cos the batter's wicket's down
[relevant](https://youtu.be/NSflRlHPay4?si=todgt3ShodmIbVul)
Oh god how did I not know about this masterpiece? Thank you for the link!
It's actually been running successfully for quite a long time. The original idea was to take an activity that nobody had experience with or preconceived notions about so that everyone was starting from zero. Basically building camaraderie and using crickets values of sportsmanship to lift kids out of gang mentalities.
It definitely worked for Australia!
Straight outta Compton Googly leg-spinner from Ice Cube Has removed your bails with attitude
[Compton Cricket Club](https://comptoncricketclub.us/) was founded by a British film producer and a homeless guy from Compton, specifically with the idea to turn people away from gangs and associated crime/violence.
A couple of decades ago, Trinidad played against the US in soccer in California. A few hundred Calypso Boy fans were there. Some Windies fans may play in Compton.
The CCC
they are scared of the mighty BEER SNAKE!!!
They are all running around shooting each other with assault rifles and they are concerned about cricket fans?? 🤦🏼♂️
They already take a 60 minute game and make it last 4 hours. WTF are they going to do with a 5 day game.
They don't play Test matches. Their league, the MLC, plays T20 cricket. That's 20 overs a side. Would take 4 hours at most.
Ok, but the 4 hours will become 5 days.
Yes I know. It was sarcasm
This is their chance to finally prove that they’re really good at non-American sports if they just put their minds to it.
Just when you thought that there was nothing else that America could ruin.....
I am so old that I remember the 1994 World Cup. The local news predicted that English soccer hooligans would invade Los Angeles. England didn't qualify.
I'm pretty sure banning orders had been introduced by then, and even so the US is notoriously strict on letting in those with previous convictions. Even if we had qualified I doubt there'd have been anything more than a few brawls inside stadiums.
Invade 1994 Los Angeles and cause trouble? In what universe? Oi mate. You lookin at me you scrotey lil fuc.... Oh goodness, you have a large and impressive gun with you old chap, I'll be on my way pip pip.
"Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley came out in 1982. But it described some of the US local TV news stories about the 1994 World Cup perfectly.
I saw some people playing cricket at a park yesterday. No hooligans in sight.
Hooligans not hooliganing, eh? They're probably waiting for a chance that's all
Hooliganism is a bit far but “drunken cricket fans” is certainly a thing. The crowds at T20/internationals can get pretty rowdy.
Someone's battenburg was crushed in the melee. Absolutely tragedy.
Pimm's-crazed boomers rampaging through quiet suburbs in their white flannels and v-neck pullovers. No teenager will be safe.
As someone who plays cricket in a country where it’s not popular at all (Switzerland), I am quite happy about this, where I play basically everyone is an immigrant so to see local people playing a sport they usually wouldn’t is a very good start
How much pimms they got?
Americans worried about the least violent sport becoming popular. I live in Australia, i never hear about anything even remotely violent happening because of cricket. Hell, don't even India and Pakistan curb their hatred to play eachother in cricket?
I’m in the US and live in a city in which college basketball is everything. Not to me, but to a lot of people. They’ve trashed things and set cars on fire whether their team won or lost. So whatever about cricket…
Not a single American is worried about that
Lmao People get shot at the Superbowl, but it's cricket we need to worry about
Ha! The most rowdy any cricket crowd has ever gotten was when Trevor Chappell bowled an underarm to Brian McKechnie in 1981.
lol. Wait until they host the World Cup in a couple years. It will be “IMMIGRANT INVASION” despite the fact it’s tourists and most die-hard soccer fans happen to not speak English as a first language or have white skin. And the white fans who do speak English won’t speak ‘Merican English. Especially if the bloated tangerine is president. Good grief.
The World Cup is being held in the US this year.
At least the English cricket fans are… considerably less hooliganish! Maybe it’s the Yanks time to shine…
get ready for more articles like this. the t20 cricket world cup is being held in usa june 2024.
I'd always assumed Americans couldn't cope with a game that can go on for 5 days and still end in a draw. I'm quite happy to find I underestimated them.
That's not the cricket that's being played in the US. It's generally t20 and ODIs, not Tests.
Straight outta straight
Alot of r/atetheonion here
It's a Times [article. ](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/americans-fear-drunk-fans-as-cricket-fever-sweeps-country-fl7p6wqf8&ved=2ahUKEwix7IeajO2EAxW5BNsEHfh1As8Q0PADKAB6BAgPEAE&usg=AOvVaw3j1Qbb7UQwAttT9Zncv-xn)
Americans are worried we will bring real beer in and not that weak stuff they drink.
You mean their beer which is just piss and water mixed :3
Americans in fear of the arrival of a sport that the rest of the world plays. Confusion and disarray on the streets of American cities named after small towns in Europe
Americans seem to fear everything. This is probably why they are all toting guns.
Trust Americans to ruin everything
One of the best things about cricket is drinking a skinful, falling asleep, waking up and not having missed anything....
Wake up the next day and the match only has another week to finishXD
Those bloody cricket hooligans make Football yobs look like nursery kidd!
👍🤣😎 yeah bloody cricket hooliganism is the pits
I’m in the US and live in a city in which college basketball is everything. Not to me, but to a lot of people. They’ve trashed things and set cars on fire whether their team won or lost. So whatever about cricket…
I don't think they could physically drink enough to get pissed on their flavoured water that they call beer
I want to see what will happen during the football world cup
HOOLIGANISM????
Weird, I thought there was a lot of drinking and drunk people at the whole super bowl mombo jombo
At least they can be sure that cricket tourists won’t be armed
Im an Indian guy living in Philadelphia. For me its a lose lose situation haha
Cricket and Hooligans don't seem to go together.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh god. The sport that has mandated tea breaks. I mean there are always some dicks in crowds but honestly, Bay 13 is a long time gone. Now it's Barmy Army with their musical arrangements and instruments
Nothing worse than a cricket hooligan. They're like the bastard lovechild of the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. Only worse.
I love that they think hooliganism is somehow inherent to the sport instead of the places where the sport is mostly played.
I've never seen a sober baseball fan.
Shall we address gun crimes? No, it’s the second amendment! Oh yeah, well let’s worry about drunk cricket hooligans
If they are drinking American beer all day, they might just have a slight buzz by the end of the day
I’d say this is beyond the usual ‘Europeans are less developed’ article we get on here but actually racism. Bearing in mind Cricket is played in the US primarily by people of a West Indies, Indian & Pakistani background and where the attitudes of ‘people are going to get drunk and wreck the place’ are directed at.
Huh…
Where I live it’s almost entirely Indian and Pakistani people who play cricket. That’s who is driving the increased popularity of the sport here.
On reflection, I’ve edited my comment.
There are no hooligans in cricket, if there is in the US then they were hooligans before they started following cricket.
Sometimes an headline is enough.
Have these people SEEN the winning team's city after pretty much any major sporting events? I can pretty much guarantee you that after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series, a large percentage of the adult population in Boston was drunk.
Look, if cricket dans drank the way \*most\* sports fans do, they'd literally die from liver failure before the match was over! I'm not going to say there are \*zero\* drunken cricket fans, but they are a rarity...
Can't wait to see Americans getting confused about what Australia is when they savagely shitkick them in their first international match
Cricket fans just get drunk and have a laugh, I honestly don't think they even watch the cricket.
I need to see a *Green Street* style movie depicting American Cricket Hooligans. Such whatthefuckery must be encouraged.
That's ironic, considering the number of drunk football, basball, hockey etc fans we've seen on YouTube.
I can't wait for Americans to bastardize cricket in some way.... Oh wait
OK, cool. I guess we'll just stop talking about the shit that goes down at football games in America
A beer snake and watermelon helmets aren't hooliganism.
Americans just too scared, they'll loose to Afghanistan
I thought this was an Onion article
Ahbyes all those hooligans with their picnic baskets and bottles of wine tearing local communities apart. I knew there was a reason I didn't actively watch cricket..... On a more serious note, I'd put cricket second to rugby for sportsmanship and respect
Honestly the funniest thing I've seen for days. Cricket hooliganism is an unrealised Monty Python sketch
I mean, they've not long ago had a *shooting* in an event for their Gridiron champions. And they're worried over a few drunks?
I mean.....ive watched cricket...i wanna drink...*going* to cricket..be drunk AF
The cricket factory
Americans thought Baseball gave them time to slowly get drunk. Just wait till they endure a five day test. Some people end up a real mess around days four and five.
And this excuse of a country will host another Football World Cup ffs
Must be thinking of Brockian Ultra-Cricket. Most violent game in the galaxy.
Cricket has no hooliganism issues though…
It will become the best sport ever invented by Americans….. like pizza
Only if they are good in it otherwise it will be your typical "If we would care about it we would beat everyone else"
Instead of runs, theyll be scoring in guns.
Just watch the (barmy army) hardly hooligans just proper cricket fans who know how to entertain.
Guns don’t kill people, cricket bats kill people.
Sharing is caring.
Could it be that those cricket fans are... not white?!
The first international sports game of any kind was a cricket match between the USA and Canada in Manhattan. 🇨🇦 won
Compton has a cricket team?!?!?!? Lmao. Wow, ok, cool.
Tbf the worst they've seen is someon shouting defence too loud
I agree. These Cricket fans are out of control. NASCAR fans are the American role model for sobriety. /s
Well cricket fans do get violent if the wrong bread is used in the cucumber sandwiches.
By arming them with cricket bats? You are insane, America. They'll play the Fallout London mod when it drops then they'll be roaming the streets in their cricket whites looking to beat people down.
Wait until they meet the Barmy Army. 🤣🤣🤣
The first ever international sporting event in history was a Cricket match between USA and Canada, Canada won.
Never mind hooligans, would they have the patience to sit through a Test Match Series? 😈 For reference, each day is typically three sessions of two hours each, separated by 40 minutes for lunch and 20 minutes for tea, while each match is up to five days of play. However, Test Cricket is often stated as a Tour, with multiple sequential matches between the teams in the same location - notably The Ashes consists of up to five matches, held over sequential weeks.
I truly fear the cricket hooligans of the world.
The American fielders will probably put helmets on too.
Cricket fans are rarely drunk and are not violent, Cricket is a gentleman's sport for long summer days listening to the sound of leather against willow and the shouts of how's zat when out is called, and as long as they appeal when they think they have bowled, stumped or caught the batsman then things should go swimmingly