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Street cricket in London
By Will last year, at the start of January Leave a comment on this post
It’s more common to see street cricket from the alleys of Pakistan or India, but here’s a game being played in London:
Let’s start a revolution. (photos found at Guy Atherton’s Flickr)
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12 Responses to “Street cricket in London”
January 6th, 2007 at 11.41 pm
January 7th, 2007 at 6.35 am
Yes, it is rather hard to spot the cricket match there, Will. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with the English game.
January 7th, 2007 at 11.51 am
Yes, sorry about that - I chose the wrong photo! I’ll put another one up
January 7th, 2007 at 11.53 am
Done
January 7th, 2007 at 12.48 pm
A few of us played an impromptu cricket game the other day in Victoria (London, that is), with a bat, apples and a traffic cone. Within minutes, the filth had arrived to shoo us on our way. THAT’S what’s wrong with the English game - how are the stars of the future meant to hone their talents if the law won’t allow us??
Mind you, it was 2am on a Monday night.
I did bowl the bat’s owner with a fantastic yorker with the last apple of the day though.
January 7th, 2007 at 9.58 pm
Not so much a Jaffa as a Cox, then, Nick… 
January 7th, 2007 at 11.09 pm
Arf!
Actually I don’t recommend apples as the best things for fruit cricket. They tend to explode on any sort of impact. Oranges probably are the most suitable…
January 8th, 2007 at 4.56 am
It’s a bugger trying to reverse an orange! Gotta have at least some smooth surface!
January 8th, 2007 at 8.28 pm
in Islamabad street cricket is played on streets that are off shoots from the main street..
so there is little traffic on these streets.. a car can come by every 15 minutes or so.. and you just stand to the side if one comes your way.. so it is very safe to play.. moreover, people use a tennis ball that is covered in electrical tape.. this allows for the ball to move faster through the air.. and it usually doesn’t break the windows of the houses in the street..
the wicket is a folding chair..
if you hit the ball in to someone’s home.. you are out and have to go get the ball..
and there’s always an old retired person that refuses to give you back your ball because you woke him up during his afternoon nap..
this setup allows for cricket to be played in almost every small street out there.. anybody can participate.. the ball is less than a pound.. the bat is a couple of pounds… cheap, easy.. anybody can join in..
there’s hardly anybody in the pakistani cities that hasn’t played tape ball cricket..
all the pakistan national players started with street cricket..
January 8th, 2007 at 10.46 pm
Change Islamabad to Adelaide. Change Pakistan to Australia. You have my childhood and that of everyone else I suspect. My mum still owes me for making me come in for dinner while unbeaten on 542.
April 10th, 2007 at 1.31 pm
Interesting comments.. 
May 3rd, 2007 at 8.55 am
You are all welcome to come to the next big fruit cricket event in London. Details will be published on “Fruit Cricket - the ultimate game” on facebook in the next week or so.
Hope you can all make it.
LL x
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