Your Cricket Existence of Cricket in your Family..

[shubhrayu]

Yeah from how long has the game of Cricket existed in your family...

In my case my grandfather watched Test Cricket a lot.He visited the Eden Gardens for every single game being played there.My dad watches cricket a lot and he played in a club in Calcutta my dad's a great fan of David Gower.Now me I play it and watch it a lot.
What about you..

 

[rvdthunder]

my grandfather and father both played for bruny island. i have always watched it, and played for sorell and new town

 

[shubhrayu]

Good to know

 

[shefellover93]

None whatsoever

 

[Ollie_H]

My dad once played county cricket and my great grandfather did also

 

[Kev]

I wasn't much of a fan of Gower!

No cricket history that I know of in my family. I actually got my Dad into going to cricket, not the other way around.

 

[The_gas]

Er, my mum likes and watches cricket, she got me into it. Although i don't like to admit this publicly.

 

[Cricketman]

Everyone in my family loves cricket, but i'm the only one who actually gets up at night to watch my boys in blue take field. They're interested enough to have a lengthy conversation, but they won't lose sleep over it.

It's a family tradition to have cricinfo as our homepage too, and those who don't basically get made fun of being 'not Indian' or 'not part of our family' until they change it back . The grandparents are in on this too, so yeah just shows how crazy we all are!

 

[Left_Hander]

Er, my mum likes and watches cricket, she got me into it. Although i don't like to admit this publicly.

A bit late don't you think?

 

[Leggie]

Er my Dad used to follow India matches quite a lot and could name the Line-Ups from the 80's and 90's with ease. But now he thinks cricket is a bit of an overkill with matches every day almost and doesn't follow it except for the big big games (Not even Ind-Aus ). As for my cousins, Well all of them are chavs who bum of football - The kind of Indians who you ask 'Who's the best Indian Batsmen at the moment?', And they go 'Yo das ezy blud, is Ganguly innit'. Yeah right :

I wish I had a cricketing family, I only have one friend at school who follows Indian Cricket to an extent to which I do.

 

[shubhrayu]

Everyone in my family loves cricket, but i'm the only one who actually gets up at night to watch my boys in blue take field. They're interested enough to have a lengthy conversation, but they won't lose sleep over it.

It's a family tradition to have cricinfo as our homepage too, and those who don't basically get made fun of being 'not Indian' or 'not part of our family' until they change it back . The grandparents are in on this too, so yeah just shows how crazy we all are!

Good to know this!!!

 

[Leggie]

You think everything in this thread is good to know.

 

[tassietiger]

My family have been watching cricket for as long as I can remember, but the thread is talking about the existence of cricket. We only believed it was real a couple of years ago, when one of my uncles came over and told me that it did, in fact, exist. Since then, cricket has existed in our family. Before we just thought it was some sort of myth like santa, the tooth fairy and cheap petrol.

 

[Manly]

My grandad bowled the greatest ever family hat-trick (In my opinion):

Ball 6 of his first over, he bowled the batsman. (b. G. Manning)
Ball 1 of his next over, he had the next guy caught at cover point, which is where my dad was fielding. (c. G. Manning b. G. Manning)
Ball 2 of the same over, he had the guy caught at cover by my uncle. However, the ball was actually smacked at my dad, who somehow tipped it up for my uncle to catch it at cover, running round from extra. (c. I. Manning b G. Manning)

They were in the paper and everything.

 

[tassietiger]

My grandad bowled the greatest ever family hat-trick (In my opinion):

Ball 6 of his first over, he bowled the batsman. (b. G. Manning)
Ball 1 of his next over, he had the next guy caught at cover point, which is where my dad was fielding. (c. G. Manning b. G. Manning)
Ball 2 of the same over, he had the guy caught at cover by my uncle. However, the ball was actually smacked at my dad, who somehow tipped it up for my uncle to catch it at cover, running round from extra. (c. I. Manning b G. Manning)

They were in the paper and everything.

Don't tell me you actually have six-ball overs in backyard cricket. What about the 'two more' rule?