Crusading through France

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By Will last year, at the end of May Leave a comment on this post

The Crusaders, an Australian team comprising former Test, first-class and league players, will travel to France to play a match just outside Paris on June 27 in their 42-day tour of Europe.

The highlights of their tour will be matches against a President’s Italian cricket X1, Switzerland, Duke of Norfolk’s XI and the MCC at the Lord’s Nursery Ground.

The Australian’s will spend a whole week in France visiting the Burgundy vinyards of the Cote d’Or, explore Paris and the Palace of Versailles and admire the beauty of Monet’s gardens at Giverny.

The Crusaders will play a match against Standard Athletic Club 24th June (2pm) at Meudon. From Paris they will travel to the Somme battlefields of northern France and the adopted Australian village of Villers Bretonneux. Then south to the Loire Valley and Chateau Chenonceau and Chateau Villandry and the highlight of the tour - the match against l’Equipe de France de Cricket.

Full story at This French Life.

Tags: australia, europe, european-cricket, france, switzerland, the-crusaders |

Comments to “Crusading through France” Alan R wrote:
May 31st, 2007 at 5.42 am

Thanks for the info, Will. I might have to check out the match in Meudon. I haven’t heard of a single member of the Crusaders team (though I’ve had a net on the ground there with a few of the guys who will play against them). It might turn out to be a better match than the England/Windies 20-20 I’m going to see less than a week later.

Graham wrote:
May 31st, 2007 at 1.51 pm

I could not stifle my laughter when I read of a bunch of Amber Nectar swigging Aussies being let loose in the wine making areas of France!
I wonder how many of them will be going on to the pitch
with the mother and father of all hang-overs?
Then on second thoughts …..I don’t suppose it will be the first time !

p.s:….how long have the French been playing cricket??

Alan R wrote:
June 1st, 2007 at 6.09 am

There are 2 answers to the “how long” question: 1) A long time. 2) They never started.

It’s mostly expats who play here (lots of Sri Lankans, in particular), and that was the case even in the 1900 Olympic match.

For most French people, it’s just not in the culture. I think if you gave a cricket ball to a typical French kid, he’d probably start kicking it around like Zidane.

Rusty wrote:
June 1st, 2007 at 11.01 am

Graham, I thought England had talken over the beer swilling tag these days - even at World Cups!
Of course, the Aussies will be comparing the French wines with their own, and the French wil l come out the worse. Of course.

Wraye wrote:
June 1st, 2007 at 6.32 pm

Are they not going to champagne areas? - surely this counts as “amber fluid”

Beware! The Associate nations are on the march with their special weapon - wine!

Angus wrote:
June 1st, 2007 at 11.49 pm

There is a chalice dated from 1333 from France, which appears to show two ‘criquet players’. But who knows what French ‘criquet’ evolved into?

The earliest example of the ‘English’ form of cricket in France was in 1766. And nn 1777, there was a famous match at St Omer.

After that, Revolution stopped play, perhaps prompting the word ‘criquet’ to disappear from the common langauge.

Any remaining French support for the game was quelled after seeing the English play on the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815.

Then in 1865, France played Prussia in a ‘Test’.

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