New Zealand Sri Lanka Twenty20 Series in USA

[King Cricket]

You are one lucky dude, Mark! I would have gone ecstatic after meeting just one of those cricketers. And you met seven!

 

[McLOVIN]

OMG, You're wearing a texas rugby shirt! Awesome stuff

And a English hat. lol all kinda stuff going on

 

[CG123]

You should of blacked/whitened out your face with Mr Burns.

 

[riz7khan12]

lol; great stuff mark.

 

[pcfan123]

I feel bad for Mark! Supporting NZ too iirc.

:laugh

You have no idea

hMarka added 4 Minutes and 55 Seconds later...

You may never have a chance of really winning America over at all. The great anomaly of the USA is that although an immense sporting nation, their focus is extremely insular.

Few international events ever seem to hold the limelight. Reel off a list of major internationally competitive sports: soccer, cricket, rugby union, Formula 1, tennis, hockey... but then look at what they're competing with, things like NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, PGA and IndyCar. The American bubble has a better ability to expand into the outside world than for the outside world to leech its way in.

Yea so lets just give up :sarcasm

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The event was a smashing succes in USACAs eyes, a sizeable cash boost for them (Broward county owes the debt on the Stadium, not USACA).

There were quite a few Americans there, most came for the county fair type atmosphere with all the food vendors, music etc. Lots of shopping as well. One white american guy even hithiked from Cali to be there.


As for the SL fans, they came from all over the US, Canada.

A few USACA officals told me that talks are in the works for India to tour next year. That will show you the true potential.

hMarka added 4 Minutes and 16 Seconds later...

Whats with all the garbage in this thread? The IQ level seems to have dropped massively while I was away

 

[TumTum]

Why hide your face

 

[pcfan123]

Why hide your face

Gay,

But in reality, I try to protect my privacy as much as possible. Dont even have facebook. Too many cases nowadays of people getting fired for controversial things they say on the net

 

[TumTum]

Gay,

But in reality, I try to protect my privacy as much as possible. Dont even have facebook. Too many cases nowadays of people getting fired for controversial things they say on the net

I should find that picture of you in your car and stick that on, would make the picture much more realistic

How were they like anyway? Was Sunil grumpy? What did you and Ian Chappell talk about?

 

[pcfan123]

The security was super tight because Sri Lanka have the constant Tamil threat and Jayasuriya is an active MOP.

Some ass even flew an airplane over the field with a banner that said something about democracy in SL.

Anyways, there was a SWAT team assigned to follow the Lankans, for the Kiwis, just a few cops :laugh

hMarka added 1 Minutes and 27 Seconds later...

How were they like anyway? Was Sunil grumpy? What did you and Ian Chappell talk about?

Sunil was nice, we were just talking about the pitch and how awful it is. Chapelle and I were talking about an article he had written on cricket in USA.

I talked with Mahela for a good 20 minutes, he was telling me about how crazy the Windies is. He ordered a juice at 7am in the hotel in the Windies and he said it had rum in it :laugh

Ian Gould = super nice guy

 

[-D-S-B-]

Anyways, there was a SWAT team assigned to follow the Lankans, for the Kiwis, just a few cops

Breed em tough over here. We can hold our own

 

[pcfan123]

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[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

I envy you Mark.. Must have had great fun...

 

[-D-S-B-]

Cool, it just looks like an awesome time. Especially for a cricket lover in USA!

Lol at the sneaky arm around you...

 

[pcfan123]

I asked the SWAT guy if I could hold his submachine gun, he did not think it was funny

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Cool, it just looks like an awesome time. Especially for a cricket lover in USA!

Lol at the sneaky arm around you...

Dude it really weirded me out when he put his arm on me, caught me off guard lol, I have a great picture of him smoking a ciggy, he ran out during the innigns break to have one Lol

 

[King Cricket]

Sunil looks funny in the last pic. Lol!