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    The lust for cricket on the subcontinent

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-March Leave a comment on this post

    Zainub just posted a comment which, frankly, deserves its own post (if, like me, you’re fascinated at cricket’s appeal around the world, and especially the near-fanatical support Asian teams are afforded). Zainub goes to college in Pakistan, is a huge fan, and here’s what she says:

    Can’t quite relate to office atmospheres but I do go to college , where 66% of the students are female , so it is difficult to talk about anything else apart from clothes, other girls, other boys, yet more clothes, jewellery, stupid celeb gossip, make up, studies and then all of this over and over again …There are handfull of us crazy female but we get outnumbered amongst the rest, nevertheless we do try initiating discussions on cricket every know and then, but rarely do they go anything beyond Shahid Afridi, or how stupid Sami’s hair is. But yeah, whenever we do well against India, there’s a lot of talk, even if it is just on the lines of oh we won, we played well, we kicked ass.. bla bla. And nothing beyond that. The lads are the opposite though, except for the ones that aren’t from Pakistan, each and every knows their crikcet inside out, greatest thing about this I that I never have to spend a single penny on getting SMS score updates if we’re forced to follow a game during college, the lads spend all the money! Hehe.

    What’s more we even talk cricket with our teachers…very useful this can be, you know. Like this Monday, I got away with submitting a journal a period late because I told my maam I was watchiing the SA-AUS game on the weekend, and because she’s a total cricket nut like me (some of my friends joke that she even looks like me, which isn’t true of course) she allowed me 25 extra minutes to get my work submitted! Great, no?

    Fascinating insight.

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    4 Responses to “The lust for cricket on the subcontinent”

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 17th, 2006 at 10.31 pm

    No wonder she got away with it, Zany is special, isn’t she?

  • R J wrote:
    March 18th, 2006 at 4.44 am

    I hadnt realised Zainab was in Pakistan. Her comments and writings somehow reflected a person who has spent a number of years in UK. How? and Why?, don’t ask. Just one of those things.

    I can understand what she writes about. I’ve gone through similar experience from the opposite side - that of the male. And yes, the few girls that did take interest in male-stuff, ie cricket, football(soccer), did get pampered by the boys.

    Nice comment, Zainab.

  • Zainub - Zany wrote:
    March 19th, 2006 at 9.57 am

    LOL! You made a whole post on my comment, how flattering. Thanks Will.

    RJ,

    Funny that you say I sounded as if I’d spent lots of time in Britian, I do spend lots of time reading and talking to people who’ve spend lots of time in Britian so that might have influenced me a little bit, but otherwise, I’ve never been to the UK for real. Once had a transit at Heathrow for 5 hours, but nothing beyond that.

  • R J wrote:
    March 19th, 2006 at 4.07 pm

    Oh well! My ‘just one of those things’ radar seems a bit off.

    On the other hand, it’s amazing what a 5hr transit at Heathrow can do??! ;)

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