Thursday, 2 April 2009

Cricket News

At last, some good news from Afghanistan. Not only has Johnny Afghan taken to playing cricket; his national team has beaten the mighty Danes and could be on its way to the World Cup finals. A naysayer might point out that it's more an overspill Pakistani team really, and that the present condition of Pakistan demonstrates that cricket is no guarantor of a civlised polity, but me I take the view that the more of the world plays cricket, the better the world will be, if only by a streaky edge past fine leg.
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9 comments:

  1. Brit2 April 2009 at 11:37

    Indeed. And may I recommend this excellent blog. Check out the post "Harold Alf and Me" particularly.

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  2. Nige2 April 2009 at 13:24

    Thanks for that link Brit - what a great blog. I'll be looking there again...

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  3. Susan B.2 April 2009 at 15:18

    I'm currently teaching Khaled Hosseini's novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," so I've been reading about all things Afghan these days. Soccer, nuttin'. Check out their national sport "Buzkashi" (banned, I might add, by the Taliban -- a strange thing to ban along with musical instruments, parakeets, and computers). Buzkashi is horse polo with a headless goat for the ball. Well, that's the recent innovation. In the good old tribal battlin' days, the "ball" was a P.O.W.

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  4. Susan B.2 April 2009 at 15:19

    Excuse me, I meant "cricket" not "soccer."

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  5. Brit2 April 2009 at 16:00

    Isn't it about time you had a blogroll on the sidebar? Standard practice, you know.

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  6. Nige2 April 2009 at 17:24

    You're right Brit - it's time to pimp my blog, when I get round to it. High time Appleyard updated his blogroll too...

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  7. Mark2 April 2009 at 22:06

    Does anyone ever look at blogrolls? They've kind of vanished into the landscape, I suspect. A list of your favourite French wines with links to their websites would be much more interesting.

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  8. Brit2 April 2009 at 23:20

    They're crucial so you know what gang people are in.

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  9. Anonymous3 April 2009 at 17:18

    If a 'roll is too long it's meaningless. Whenever i add a blog i try to delete one i no longer read. The Yard's is, on the other hand, full of dead links and dead blogs.

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