The Lost Legacy of the East Africa Cricket Revolution
The East Africa cricket team represents a unique chapter in the annals of international cricket. A forgotten multi-national squad that once emerged from the colonial legacies and post-independence aspirations of four East African nations. Those nations were Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Formed in 1951, the team symbolized a regional unity that transcended national boundaries….
CASO Midnight Cricket | A Windy City Story
Walking through Chicago’s streets late at night guarantees a few assurances. Night owls stopping at corner vendors for a Chicago dog; that all beef frankfurter sprinkled with chopped onions and sweet pickle relish flavored with pickled sport peppers and wrapped in a breathtaking poppy seed bun. Folks are popping into Portillo’s or Lou Malnati’s for…
How Donald Duck was Named After the Babe Ruth of Cricket
Donald Bradman is widely regarded as the greatest cricketer of all time, though comparing athletes across eras is always complicated. Just as it’s difficult to fairly compare Babe Ruth to modern baseball players—especially given that Black athletes were excluded from the Major Leagues during his time—it’s hard to measure Bradman against today’s cricketers under vastly…
The Ten Greatest Indigenous Australian Cricketers of All Time
Indigenous Australians have a deep, complex history with cricket. Their involvement dates back to the 1800s, making cricket one of the first sports in which Aboriginal Australians gained international recognition. In 1868, thirteen Aboriginal men from Victoria became the first Australian team of any kind to tour internationally. They played 47 matches across England, impressing…
The Halifax Cup Is America’s Forgotten First Cricket Tournament
The drive from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is fifteen and a half hours long. But it is a perfect trip if you want to stop in Boston and New York City along the way. And, of course, if you’d like to take the trip straight down to Washington, D.C. However, Halifax is in…
The Disaster that was Cricket at the 1900 Paris Olympics
In 1896, the Olympic Games made a triumphant return to Athens after an absence of over 1500 years. According to Aristotle, the ancient games officially started in 776 BCE. And they mostly consisted of running events, chariot races, some jumping, tossing a couple of things around, and a little bit of wrestling and boxing. Nero…
Kwibuka T20 Tournament: Rwanda Uses Cricket to Heal
The African Nation Shines as Host of T20 Memorial Cricket Tournament In 1994, Rwanda experienced a horrific genocide. Over 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi, were killed in just 100 days. The violence began on April 7, one day after the Rwandan president’s plane was shot down. Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi and used this event to…
You Really Do Gotta Know What a Crumpet is to Understand Cricket
Why Raphael was Right & What Crumpets, Tea, and Five-Day Matches Can Teach You About Cricket. For the longest time, I found it frustrating to talk about cricket with my friends. Every cricket conversation ended with that infamous Raphael crumpet line from the Ninja Turtles movie: “You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand…
Top Cricket Players Who Faced Bans for Marijuana Use
(…And One Too Cool to Get Banned) Cricket is huge in Jamaica, and so is marijuana use. It’s the birthplace of Bob Marley, after all. Marley was the iconic Rastafarian musical legend who helped popularize reggae music around the world in the 1970s. When you think of Jamaica, you think reggae, dreadlocks, and the distinctive…
The Battle for Bangladesh | The Story of Jewel & the Crack Platoon
Remembering Jewel | The Forgotten Hero of Bangladesh On August 29, 1971, Abdul Halim Chowdhury Jewel was abducted from his mother’s home in Dhaka. Pakistani soldiers stormed the house late at night. Jewel was a freedom fighter and elite commando in the Crack Platoon. An informant had exposed him after a series of guerrilla attacks…
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