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England have won 4 of the last 7 Ashes series.
Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2458 - 31/10/2020 11:51:02 2303281 Link 0 |
Lol. Don't understand it at all.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 31/10/2020 12:35:57 2303297 Link 0 |
Shows my knowledge of cricket. I thought they were beating all the time. :). Ahh well I'll try another analogy so.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 31/10/2020 12:38:11 2303299 Link 0 |
I'd have to compare Limerick hurlers to Leicester City also. Came out of nowhere to win the ultimate prize. skillet (Limerick) - Posts: 1062 - 31/10/2020 13:24:41 2303307 Link 0 |
Nor do I bud, it's a strange looking sport that takes days for a game to finish and a game where they can stop at any time for a mug of tae.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/10/2020 13:40:48 2303308 Link 0 |
At one time Cricket was the most popular sport in Ireland till the GAA came along and knocked it off its perch. Thank God for that.
Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 784 - 31/10/2020 14:47:55 2303318 Link 0 |
100% Ollie. Is baseball any good?
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/10/2020 15:10:20 2303334 Link 0 |
GAA were instrumental in its downfall and all but wiped it out in order to prosper.
catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 31/10/2020 15:16:52 2303339 Link 0 |
The ball is crap Kingdomboy but the bat comes in handy when your daughters start going outing with fellas.
Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 784 - 31/10/2020 15:25:08 2303342 Link 0 |
It was big in Kilkenny. Initially the GAA made little inroad on cricket in Kilkenny, and indeed the game's popularity peaked as late as 1896, when there were 50 active teams. Cricket may have delayed the spread of the GAA in County Kilkenny, aided by post-Parnellite dissensions in the GAA board there in the early 1890s. By 1898 it could be said of Gowran (home of D. J. Carey) that 'This is essentially a cricketing village'. The only surviving cricket pavilion in the county is on the Gowran pitch-and-putt course The History of Cricket in County Kilkenny-The Forgotten Game. Michael O'Dwyer https://www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-history-of-cricket-in-county-kilkenny-the-forgotten-game/ Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2458 - 31/10/2020 15:35:15 2303347 Link 0 |
And Tipp, Westmeath etc but the emergence of the Gaelic Revival and the GAA becoming a corner stone of it meant that as the ordinary people's game it was more or less wiped out. Interestingly in Kerry rugby was gaining huge popularity in the 1880s and 90s until something similar happened and the game was subsumed by a resurgent GAA. Indeed the architect of the foreign games ban, TF O'Sullivan was the Kerry Co Sec who hated rugby and conducted a one man newspaper campaign in the Kerry press to undermine it. TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 31/10/2020 16:00:15 2303387 Link 0 |