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    Street cricket in London

    By Will last year, at the start of January, Comments

    It’s more common to see street cricket from the alleys of Pakistan or India, but here’s a game being played in London:

    Street cricket in London

    Let’s start a revolution. (photos found at Guy Atherton’s Flickr)

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    Street cricket in India

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-February, Comments



    A game of Cricket, originally uploaded by wanderingpoet79.

    This marvellous shot - and it is marvellous - is woefully let down by its photographer who rather shamefully refers to the boy hitting “a homerun.” Urgh. It’s like your parents and grandparents trying to learn teenage lingo, failing miserably, but insisting that they are cool…

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    “There’s a cow at short mid-on!”

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of January, Comments

    That’s just plain unfair and against the rules:

    It's a cow

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    Urban street cricket photos

    By Will 3 years ago, mid-October, Comments

    Stavros reminded me of these photos, which I forgot to post last night. They’re just a bunch of people playing cricket in the street, but it’s significant that they’re (almost certainly) British and in Britain. I’ve mentioned and posted photos of Indian street cricket, which is altogether more common…but in Britain? Not so common.

    From Flickr user Matthew Moor

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