Which Country has contributed to International Cricket more ?

[steds]

Origins of cricket can be traced back to France

Indeed. Just outside Pontefract, iirc.

 

[C_C]

England.
And by a light year and half.
History has a way of being terribly short-sighted and forgetting the past.
Infact, I'd say that England's contributions towards cricket overshadows the collective contribution of ALL other cricketing nations.

 

[Matt79]

England - if they weren't so good at drubbing the Frogs, confounding the Spainards and beating the Hun, not to mention 'civilising' large chunks of other people's land, cricket would never have spread beyond that blessed plot, that scepted isle.

And we'd all be playing baseball (shudder!!!!)

 

[C_C]

not to mention 'civilising' large chunks of other people's land,

???!?!!!?
How do you 'civilise' other people's lands when their civilisation is a few orders of magnitude older and more developed than your's ?
Dont mistake civility with technology.
England, like other colonial powers, went around destroying civilisations the world around and looting/pillaging. Thats the basis of the wealth in England and the west.

 

[steds]

England - if they weren't so good at drubbing the Frogs, confounding the Spainards and beating the Hun, not to mention 'civilising' large chunks of other people's land, cricket would never have spread beyond that blessed plot, that scepted isle.

And we'd all be playing baseball (shudder!!!!)

What makes you think baseball would have evolved had England not "civilised" America?

 

[age_master]

England invented the game.

 

[Jono]

???!?!!!?
How do you 'civilise' other people's lands when their civilisation is a few orders of magnitude older and more developed than your's ?
Dont mistake civility with technology.
England, like other colonial powers, went around destroying civilisations the world around and looting/pillaging. Thats the basis of the wealth in England and the west.

I'm sure he put the word civilising in inverted commas for a reason CC.

 

[Son Of Coco]

I voted Australia - but that was solely based on the WSC...so now I think England!

 

[nightprowler10]

I'm sure he put the word civilising in inverted commas for a reason CC.

Notice how he hasn't replied to this post and apologized?

 

[Smudge]

Who? C_C?

 

[age_master]

And we'd all be playing baseball (shudder!!!!)

agreed

 

[Goughy]

To add another piece to the England side.
Every year Counties and Clubs employ half the worlds cricketers during the summer.

The world of cricket is all together in one place at one time. Every club from the village to the semi-pro have overseas players.

This is a massive contribution to the professionalization (is that even a word?) of the global game and has also served as a training arena and finishing school for many players.

Experiencing different conditions and learning to cope with the fact a team completely relies on them means, that for generations, cricketers have said that their time in England helped make them the player they are/were.

 

[C_C]

Notice how he hasn't replied to this post and apologized?

Notice that i didnt hear it from the horse's mouth.

 

[silentstriker]

Baseball is a good game, I don't think it would be all that terrible if we played baseball.

I rank the sports thus (of course its arbitrary, but since its my ranking, its actually the truth):

1. American Football (not the pansy European version )
2. Cricket
3. Basketball
4. Baseball


That's my top four. Baseball would be at #3, if it wasn't for the damn player's union. I want to put hockey in as #5, but I don't think it belongs with the other sports. I don't follow soccer...I barely know the rules.

 

[C_C]

My top 5 sports to play:

1. Tennis
2. Football (ie, FOOTball, not 'hand-foot-fight-grab-ball')
3. Cricket
4. Badminton
5. Squash

My top 5 sports to watch:

1. Cricket
2. Tennis
3. Football
4. Olympic stuff
5. Ice Hockey

 

[pasag]

I find every single sport fun to play, cricket, footy, soccer, vollyball, all the american ones.

But to watch...only cricket and AFL.

This got way off topic.

 

[steds]

My top 5 sports to play:

1. Tennis
2. Football (ie, FOOTball, not 'hand-foot-fight-grab-ball')
3. Cricket
4. Badminton
5. Squash

My top 5 sports to watch:

1. Cricket
2. Tennis
3. Football
4. Olympic stuff
5. Ice Hockey

Play

1. Rugby (either code)
2. Snooker
3. Football
4. Cricket (only fun when you bowl really)
5. Badminton

Watch

1. Rugby League
2. Cricket
3. Snooker
4. Ice Hockey
5. Rugby Union
Football comes in somewhere behind track & field, AFL, badminton, horse racing, tennis, international snail racing, etc.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I don't follow soccer...I barely know the rules.

Hmmm...

 

[pasag]

There is like 1 rule in soccer, dont use your hands. Got to be the easiest sport going around.

 

[Matt79]

???!?!!!?
How do you 'civilise' other people's lands when their civilisation is a few orders of magnitude older and more developed than your's ?
Dont mistake civility with technology.
England, like other colonial powers, went around destroying civilisations the world around and looting/pillaging. Thats the basis of the wealth in England and the west.

Yep the inverted commas would indicate sarcasm.