A question for the Aussies.

[Goughy]

I have played with one very good Australian of Chinese ancestry and another good player from the UK. There are also guys like Richard Chee Quee amongst others.

My question is:
Are there 1st and 2nd generation Chinese and Filipino cricketers (+other orientals) coming through the cricketing ranks and acheiving success?

If anyone has any info for other countries I would love to know.

Its a topic of interest to me and I am very interested to hear about players who become very profficient in a sport that they have little/no family history of.

Its not quite what I am looking for in this thread (as Im mainly looking for Oriental players) but the background of the Aussie U'19 captain makes for an interesting story and I am interested in the impact of South East Asians on Australian cricket.

 

[TIF]

Dermot Reeve, a former England cricketer was born in Hong Kong.

 

[chekmeout]

I had created a thread on this a while ago... It got locked due to some rascist comments.. But I'll try and find a link .. It has some interesting stuff...

 

[chekmeout]

Yup, found the thread.......

http://forum.cricketweb.net/showthread.php?t=13749

Cheers mate!

 

[Goughy]

Thanks for the link.

I got to 1/2 way down page 5 before I got fed up with how it degenerated into something with no relevance to the topic.

Not sure how racist it was but guys were going nowhere with their arguements.

Still, in answer to my question, are there any guys coming through?

 

[GotSpin]

Doesn't seem to be that many. But i expect that to somewhat change due to China's increasing interest in the sport in a few years

I posted this link like last week but here it is again


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/03/03/1141191849511.html

 

[Richard]

I'm sure there was another thread on the subject sometime, too...
That's the bugger...