Countries You Will Be Comfortable Playing Cricket In

[Jungle Jumbo]

South Africa?

I wouldn't go to Pakistan right now and Zimbabwe would definitely still be off the cards.

 

[Faisal1985]

Lol, again "mon mein ram ram baghal mein churri".......does everyone get the hint about reviving this thread again?

 

[Shri]

Lol, again "mon mein ram ram baghal mein churri".......does everyone get the hint about reviving this thread again?

The world doesn't revolve around you. A lot of topics will be discussed in a forum and you can't go around and tell people not to discuss certain topics just because you don't have answers to the issue at hand.

 

[Prince EWS]

Lol, again "mon mein ram ram baghal mein churri".......does everyone get the hint about reviving this thread again?

Official warning - post in English only. I'm not joking.

 

[Richard]

South Africa?

Imagine it's probably not too dangerous for the sort of entourage that makes-up sporting teams, merely the Average Joe needs to keep his wits about him.

 

[Richard]

BTW personally I've always had reservations about going to the USA because of the fact that guns are legal over there. I'd probably be very unsure about going to most places, maybe only Australia and New Zealand wouldn't unduly worry me.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

BTW personally I've always had reservations about going to the USA because of the fact that guns are legal over there.

Really? Is that an irrational or a rational reservation?

I've been on family holidays to the states, as I would have thought many others have and never felt in any danger at any point. I can't see you going too far off the beaten track to play a game of cricket there. Likewise loads of school and age group sides go to South Africa, clearly a more dangerous place, but not some deathtrap.

If you had that sort of attitude, you wouldn't see very much of the world at all. There are dangers everywhere in the world. Sure, there are plenty of places you wouldn't be able to pay me to go, but simply to rule anything out for slight risks seems a bit of an overly-cautious, ultra-conservative approach to life for mine.

Bit like Scaly in Malaysia...

 

[Goughy]

Really? Is that an irrational or a rational reservation?

I've been on family holidays to the states, as I would have thought many others have and never felt in any danger at any point.

Its a pretty irrational logic but we are all allowed to have our foibles. Regarding cricket in the States, Ive played in some very, very dodgy neighborhoods (though not too many) with people selling tomatoes at the traffic lights, guys drunk asleep outside the 7-11, gangs on each street corner and being virtually the only white person in a 5 mile radius. It wouldnt take too much to imagine something going wrong and fast.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Its a pretty irrational logic but we are all allowed to have our foibles. Regarding cricket in the States, Ive played in some very, very dodgy neighborhoods (though not too many) with people selling tomatoes at the traffic lights, guys drunk asleep outside the 7-11, gangs on each street corner and being virtually the only white person in a 5 mile radius. It wouldnt take too much to imagine something going wrong and fast.

Oh yeah of course I understand that there isn't much wrong with irrational ideas, but I was just wondering whether it was a decision Richard would come to instinctively or whether he'd genuinely given it any thought.

And there will be places to play cricket like that... but would a touring side play there?

 

[Richard]

Really? Is that an irrational or a rational reservation?

I've been on family holidays to the states, as I would have thought many others have and never felt in any danger at any point. I can't see you going too far off the beaten track to play a game of cricket there. Likewise loads of school and age group sides go to South Africa, clearly a more dangerous place, but not some deathtrap.

If you had that sort of attitude, you wouldn't see very much of the world at all. There are dangers everywhere in the world. Sure, there are plenty of places you wouldn't be able to pay me to go, but simply to rule anything out for slight risks seems a bit of an overly-cautious, ultra-conservative approach to life for mine.

Bit like Scaly in Malaysia...

Pretty irrational. I've never travelled much and have precisely zero desire to travel anywhere outside the UK and won't be sorry if I never do. I have reason to "fear" most places for one reason or another and doubtless if I wasn't from the UK and had never been here there'd be some reasons to fear it - though I honestly can't say I had any qualms about going to France when someone else organised the trip and I merely had to go along rather than do it off my own steam as I do these days.

I'm pretty conservative (with a small C) myself, I'd have thought that was obvious. I'm not remotely adventurous. An ex-girlfriend of mine, who I'm pretty sure I've mentioned on CW before and certainly some of those on here who know me well know the story of, has recently taken a trip to Peru and all I could do when I found-out was laugh. I just have no desire whatsoever to do these things.

 

[silentstriker]

Its a pretty irrational logic but we are all allowed to have our foibles. Regarding cricket in the States, Ive played in some very, very dodgy neighborhoods (though not too many) with people selling tomatoes at the traffic lights, guys drunk asleep outside the 7-11, gangs on each street corner and being virtually the only white person in a 5 mile radius. It wouldnt take too much to imagine something going wrong and fast.

Hey you came to my neighborhood? You should have stopped by and said hello!

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Pretty irrational. I've never travelled much and have precisely zero desire to travel anywhere outside the UK and won't be sorry if I never do. I have reason to "fear" most places for one reason or another and doubtless if I wasn't from the UK and had never been here there'd be some reasons to fear it - though I honestly can't say I had any qualms about going to France when someone else organised the trip and I merely had to go along rather than do it off my own steam as I do these days.

I'm pretty conservative (with a small C) myself, I'd have thought that was obvious. I'm not remotely adventurous. An ex-girlfriend of mine, who I'm pretty sure I've mentioned on CW before and certainly some of those on here who know me well know the story of, has recently taken a trip to Peru and all I could do when I found-out was laugh. I just have no desire whatsoever to do these things.

Fair enough... so it's as much a complete absence of a desire to travel abroad than a genuine 'I wouldn't play there if you were to pay me for it' feeling?

 

[Richard]

Perhaps in part, though if cricket were involved - and if I were very good at cricket - it'd naturally be likely to be different. It's not purely personal though - I always worry about Dad when he visits the US of A for the same reasons I wouldn't want to go myself. I have a fear, fairly irrational, of that which I have not experienced and thus cannot understand and have only knowledge of the danger and not of the lack of danger. Much of the USA is probably no more dangerous due to guns than much of the UK. On Haloween last year I came very close to being stabbed purely because some idiot kid had lost his mother a few weeks back and had hallucinated me trying to get with his older sister - the party this happened at was in the company of any number of people I knew and have gone to parties with countless times. I'm now far, far more wary about going to parties which include anyone much who I don't know and am certainly not going to be setting foot in that house again - ever. I'm just someone who has fear of danger incited pretty easily.

 

[Goughy]

Perhaps in part, though if cricket were involved - and if I were very good at cricket - it'd naturally be likely to be different. It's not purely personal though - I always worry about Dad when he visits the US of A for the same reasons I wouldn't want to go myself. I have a fear, fairly irrational, of that which I have not experienced and thus cannot understand and have only knowledge of the danger and not of the lack of danger. Much of the USA is probably no more dangerous due to guns than much of the UK. On Haloween last year I came very close to being stabbed purely because some idiot kid had lost his mother a few weeks back and had hallucinated me trying to get with his older sister - the party this happened at was in the company of any number of people I knew and have gone to parties with countless times. I'm now far, far more wary about going to parties which include anyone much who I don't know and am certainly not going to be setting foot in that house again - ever. I'm just someone who has fear of danger incited pretty easily.

For the record, I find the US far safer than the UK

 

[Sanz]

Fear of Danger , From What ? Just Curious

 

[Richard]

For the record, I find the US far safer than the UK

Far safer? That's interesting. I know roughly where you've lived in both countries and also know where I've lived in one and that I haven't spent a single second in the other - as I say, I cannot hope to have a true picture of what the USA is like (and "the USA" of course isn't "like" anything, it's a vast country with massive differences from place to place). But I've never truly felt "in danger" in any given area in all the places I've lived and visited in the UK. Nonetheless I don't doubt that there are places I'm staying away from unless I've worked-out how to produce an invincibility forcefield.

 

[Bonnie Prince C]

If it is a question of playing international cricket then I would go anywhere to get the chance to play at that level. However, if it was just some club match then I would avoid Pakistan and Zimbabwe for obvious reasons.

 

[Uppercut]

For the record, I find the US far safer than the UK

I'm intrigued. What do you mean by "safer" exactly? Less like you might be killed/mugged? Is it area-specific? What exactly did you feel unsafe about in the UK?

 

[Goughy]

I'm intrigued. What do you mean by "safer" exactly? Less like you might be killed/mugged? Is it area-specific? What exactly did you feel unsafe about in the UK?

You are far more likely to get shot in the US than UK but that number is so small as it is barely worth worying about.

On the other hand you are far more likely to be attacked, involved in altercations, abused, mugged, stolen from in the UK. It is a quality of life thing.

It isnt something I worry about here very often but it was a regular thing in the UK. Everything from teenage hoodies, to burglary, to drunken idiots to people generally disrespecting those around them and their comunity.

 

[morgieb]

Interesting. I'd be far more concerned about my safety in the US, but your post says otherwise. Also, the US is a better place to visit than the UK.