Cael*

You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!

Bo Nickal was a PSU wrestler, now rising up the ranks in UFC

May I ask why? Why wouldn’t a team from an Indian city not name itself with Indian word?

I live in Texas, and we have cricket pitches in a lot of public parks here. It is mostly Indian people that play here, but not exclusively and there are open leagues you can sign up for.

Altering not alternating, sorry.

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You did the right thing by not alternating the headline. I just read stupid. No need to apologize. Ngl I thought we had another Picabo Street on our hands and I was kinda here for skiers with epic names.

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It's actually a T20 Cricket League. Which are run over shorter schedules of around 6-8 weeks. Players tend to play across several leagues over the course of a year. So there's actually a decent chance of getting quality players involved. Particularly seeing as this is heavily linked to the Indoan Premier League which is the boggest league of its kind in the world drawing in the best players.

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It does matter if you’re second fiddle in your own state both prestige wise and for instate recruits. I was of the age to have high school teammates that were highly recruited by both Iowa and Iowa State programs during his tenure and it absolutely mattered to them as well.

If you lose 9/10 in-state 3 or 4-peat HS champions to your instate rival, you’re going to look for a new recruiting base if Tom Brands is beating you out. Two of the teammates I had went on to win 3 national titles (combined) for Brands rather than Sanderson.

I also don’t think you’re appreciating 1) how Important the Iowa v Iowa state wrestling rivalry is 2) how important geographic proximity is to recruiting 3) How much more population dense the east coast is compared to Iowa. Within 300 miles in Iowa it’s like 20m people vs 70m at PSU.

There's an Amazon Prime show called "Inside Edge" about a fictional Indian professional cricket team.

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Sanderson is generally regarded as the greatest NCAA wrestler of all time. Undefeated throughout his entire career. Before him it was Dan Gable. Lee is a great wrestler, but he is the tier right below Cael

Total domination lol

I live in Chicago and we have 50-60 cricket clubs

I'm more of a Grasshopper fan. Crickets are noisy.

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They ride knights? I didn’t think Kolkata was very progressive, but here they are proving me wrong.

Fuck no. There’s barely a market for professional soccer which is way less boring.

As an American with family roots from Mumbai, its very upsetting to learn that the Mumbai cricket team is called the Indians.

That’s certainly one path. Olympic wrestling and MMA are other popular routes

Recruiting shouldn’t matter in this situation penn state has kids from all of the place. And Sanderson would still be able to recruit nationally regardles

The Kolkata Knight Riders is up there too.