Cricket Tsukuba
Despite being introduced late in the nineteenth century by the British in Yokohama, cricket has never been a big thing in Japan. Baseball has always been more popular - probably as a result of the lower cerebral threshold required to play and watch the game.
I know the Japan Cricket Association (日本語）has been doing an excellent job to develop the game throughout Japan, but I didn’t realise it had spread as far as my little neck of the woods. So I was quite happy to discover that Tsukuba has a cricket team. There is a quite a large international population in the area so it isn’t that surprising.
They have a website up - you can check out the Tsukuba Cricket page here. A quick look at the wicket and it suggests plenty of bounce and movement off the seam early on, with prodigious spin by days four and five - depending on the amount of tape on the tennis ball.
Who knows - if any kiwis out there make double figures in a couple of games they should be a shoe-in for a prestigious place in the much vaunted Black Caps top order.
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symeg
Aint it funny. Now the black caps have their batting sorted their bowling has turned Jenny Shipley’s stockings - leaking runs.
Feb 5th, 2007
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