8th July 2009
The Cricket Test….
Great to see some support from Down Under for the campaign for a Welsh Cricket Team. Here’s a piece from the Sydney Morning Herald quoting this blog:
“When Australians talk of the Ashes, they talk about playing the Poms, but in Welsh there’s an organisation called Bwrdd Criced Cymru a Lloegr, otherwise known as the England AND Wales Cricket Board.
England sides have been sprinkled with Welsh players over the years, but to the disgust of Welsh cricket fans, the Welsh contribution is never acknowledged. They say the name England is akin to calling the West Indies “Jamaica” and some think Wales should go it alone.
Adam Price, an MP with the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru in the British Parliament, says on his blog: “It’s a mystery why a Celtic country with the strongest cricket tradition is hidden under the umbrella of England’s team when Scotland and Ireland have independent teams. Wales has more cricket teams than Scotland and Ireland combined. The standard of a Welsh Test team would surely equal at least Zimbabwe or Bangladesh.”
I look forward to the day that Wales isn’t relegated on the international cricketing circuit to the role of twelfth man.
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