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The Ashes College Connection -Capt Bligh, the King,Khan & “Flash” Gordon!
The legend of the Ashes started with a loss to Australia, by England under Ivo Bligh, who went from captaining Cambridge University as a 22 year old in 1881, to captaining England in 1882. Ivo Bligh was an excellent fielder and attacking batsman. At Cambridge he gained his Blue as...
College Cricket Universities excel in College Football !
There are many things a University can do to try to get a top Football program: hire a great coach, recruit great players like Tim Tebow or Cam Newton, spend millions on facilities etc, or it could simply get a cricket team ! Yes, colleges that are members of American College Cricket generally...
Tendulkar in Time Top Ten of 2010 !
Time Magazine recognized Sachin Tendulkar’s ODI double-century as one of the top 10 sporting moments of 2010. For the 1.5 billion people who follow cricket — making it, by some reckoning, the world’s second most popular sport after soccer — it was a moment to match Roger Bannister’s 4-min. mile...
WI great Gordon Greenidge to meet College players !
Audaciously destructive former West Indies & Barbados opener Gordon Greenidge will be a guest of BIG League USA on December 18, at the Cricket Stadium in Ft Lauderdale. BIG League CEO Salman Ahmed said, “We would like to send an open invitation to all American College Cricket students to come...
Girl meets World – Cricket World ! Love at first sight for Ms Topanga!
A few miles from Woodley Field on the winding Topanga Canyon Blvd is a beautifully quaint cafe called Cafe Mimosa. Stop for coffee and organic muffins,and feel like its the 60’s or 70’s. One almost expects Jimi Hendrix to saunter in, or to see Neil Young in a corner,...
Harry Potter & Guitar Hero Eric Clapton to play College cricket team
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliff and Guitar God Eric Clapton are among celebrities set to play a cricket game against St Lawrence College, not in Hogswart but in Kent,England. The match will be to raise money for the charity, Children in Need. Its my guess that Harry Potter will use...
Shiv Chanderpaul meets with UCF & UF students !
It was a quick trip to the USA, yet International cricket Superstar Shiv Chanderpaul took time to meet with college cricket players from the University of Florida (Gators,UF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). Chanderpaul recently became # 10 on the List of top Tests run scorers of all-time.He...
US Marines play Cricket Match with Royal Marines for charity !
Cricketers from the Royal Marines (green/khaki, multi-terrain pattern combats) and the US Marines (desert pattern combats) at Forward Operating Base Jackson Picture: Leading Airman (Photographer) Si Ethell, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010 Before the responsibility for security in Sangin transferred from the UK to the US, Marines from the two nations joined...