My name is… Larry Leprechaun
Cricket is always better than a good day’s work.
My love of Cricket started when I was about 6 or 7 years old watching World Series Cricket in Australia with my parents in the late 1970s. They had emigrated from Ireland a few years earlier as TPIs (Ten Pound Imports) under the country’s skilled migration program. My hero was Greg Chappell. Dougie Walters was dad’s favourite whilst mum loved Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and Max ‘Tangles’ Walker. Cricket has been in our house ever since. Matt Hayden and David Warner have been my subsequent heroes.
The best cricket article I read this week There were various ones reporting the English bowing out of the World Cup following their loss against Bangladesh. Take your pick. The English press are so funny when their sporting teams don’t do well on the world stage. I love their headlines and pics more than the actual words. Special mentions to tweets by Japanese & Malaysian Cricket asking for a game against the English on their way home. Absolute gold. My favourite non-article but still cricket related was Ireland’s John Mooney’s response on Facebook to the shocking article by Robson Sharuko http://www.herald.co.zw/alcoholic-dumps-zim-out-of-wc/ which maliciously attacked him. That was the worst cricket article that I have read in living memory. I hope the ICC and/or Zimbabwe Cricket take the accreditation away from this ‘man’.
My favorite cricketing personalities to follow on social media are Shane Warne, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd, Niall O’Brien, Kevin Pietersen and Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham. I also like chuckling to the parody accounts as well.
Your favorite cricketing moment so far … would have been at Sabina Park on St Patrick’s Day in 2007 when we beat Pakistan in that famous victory. A close second would be playing on the Sydney Cricket Ground. I have been lucky enough to do that twice – against the MCC and the Nicky Openheimer XI from South Africa. The day that Ireland plays their first Test match would surpass all of these. I hope for the sake of the game of cricket that the Associate nations are afforded the same opportunities that their counterparts receive in other sports. Cricket should be inclusive not exclusive.
I am currently reading Reading? Are you serious? Who reads when the cricket is on? I am actually writing a World Cup Diary and the latest edition to my book on tax tips between games.
One thing I would want to see Cricket Huddle do in the future…Probably improve the navigation eg search function for articles in general perhaps by putting tags on articles. Keep up the good work.
