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Statuesque cricket in Hungary

By Will 2 years ago, at the end of September Leave a comment on this post

Angus Bell, who has been all over the place playing and writing about cricket (and other things), emailed a couple of photos to continue the theme in this post. Statuesque cricket poses.

Read his Wisden Cricketer articles here, or buy his book Slogging the Slavs.

Tags: angus-bell, cricket-photos, hungary, photo, slogging-the-slavs, soviet, statuesque |

3 Responses to “Statuesque cricket in Hungary”

Angus wrote:
September 27th, 2006 at 4.56 am

I should explain these photos are from Statue Park in Budapest, where cricket has been played since the 1890s. Sadly, the closure of the Sri Lankan Embassy a few years ago spelled disaster for the Magyar Cricket Club. We (some Chinese-Greek-Malaysian-Irish-Australians and I) tried to resurrect the sport with this impromptu game involving Lenin at cover point.

The second photo clearly shows the Soviets took fielding practice seriously, while the third pic is of a Comrade Mark Ramprakash celebrating with his top off.

The book, ‘Slogging The Slavs: A Paranormal Cricket Tour From The Baltic To The Bosphorus’ will be out by Fat Controller in early November. I’ve posted more pics and article links on http://www.angusjjbell.com.

Angus wrote:
September 27th, 2006 at 5.08 am

Here’s a link to a Czech Republic bowling grip:
http://www.praguebohemianscc.cz/funny.php?lang=en

Andy Grieve wrote:
October 23rd, 2007 at 2.34 pm

Great photos, Angus. And great news - we have just completed our first season of the Hungarian Cricket League. We have also been travelling and plan more next year - including to some of the teams you helped set up. All info at http://www.hungary4cricket.com

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