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Big League USA LLC 1580 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway Suite 130 Sunrise, Florida , 33323 American Cricketer invites you to join teams from around the U.S. to play a T20 Festival Cricket Match August 7, 2011 to August 13, 2011 benefiting United Way of Gaston County Contact Mo Ally at 305-851-3130 [email protected] United Way of Gaston County 704-864-4554 2 AMERICAN CRICKETER WINTER ISSUE 2011 American Cricketer is published by American Cricketer, Inc. Copyright 2011 Publisher - Mo Ally Editor - Deborah Ally Assistant Editor - Hazel McQuitter Graphic Design - Le Mercer Stephenson Legal Counsel - Lisa B. Hogan, Esq. 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I also believe that US CRICKET some of these positions should require a 8 NORTH AMERICAN CRICKET LEAGUE FILES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CIVIL ACTION AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CRICKET ASSOCIATION small salary in order to do the job right, rather than voting your friend or cousin 9 THE USA CRICKET ASSOCIATION for the positions. 10 SFCA PAYS SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO FORMER V.P. BRIAN EDUN Funding is finally coming to U.S. cricket 11 DON LOCKERBIE and the next elections will be held in No- vember for the Board of Directors. This 12 2010 BIG BROWARD CRICKET LEAGUE T20 TOURNAMENT FSCL PHANTERS WHIP election is critical because so many will be SFCA CAVALIERS TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIP seeking positions to be part of the United States Cricket Association (USCA), be- WOMEN CRICKET cause of the influx of money. 13 WOMEN’S CRICKET DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA New Zealand’s (NZC) partnership with ABOUT PEOPLE USACA is to help promote the game in 14 RE: ARTICLE USA CRICKET CHIEF ON GLOUCESTERSHIRE FACT FINDING MISSION this country. Also involved in the part- nership is the Australian-based market- ing company Insite, cornerstone investor BIG LEAGUE CRICKET Top Bloom and Polar Holding Interna- 15 BIG LEAGUE CRICKET TOURNAMNET tional Pte. Ltd. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET The partnership established Cricket Hold- 18 ESPNCRICINFO COVERS THE 2011 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP ings America, LLC which will hold a ma- 19 ICC CALLS ON SUPPORTERS TO REMEMBER THE GREATEST ODI PLAYERS AND MATCHES OF jority of the commercial rights to Cricket ALL-TIME AS PART OF 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS in the United States. This will enable among other things to stage a franchise 20 CAN AMERICA CATCH THE CRICKET BUG? based T20 League. 21 CRICKET-SUSPENDED PAKISTAN DUO SAY NO EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM The President of USACA, Gladstone ICC 2011 WORLD CUP Dainty, said at the signing of the Partner- ship Agreement in Los Angeles, that he is 23 ICC 2011 WORLD CUP AT A GLANCE pleased with the development of funding sources and Cricket in the U.S. FESTIVAL CRICKET 25 WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND CARIBBEAN CRICKET CORNER Mo Ally - Publisher 26 DAREN GANGA LEADS T&T’S RED FORCE BACK TO CARIBBEAN T-20 [email protected] CHAMPIONSHIP FOR 2011! 27 SARWAN, TAYLOR AND RAMDIN CUT FROM WI CONTRACT LIST MICHAEL CONRAD “JOEY” CAREW – WEST INDIES’ MR. CRICKET 4 AMERICAN CRICKETER WINTER ISSUE 2011 ScopeCover Story The Ashes Mo Ally, North Carolina Mo Ally The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is the most celebrated rivalry in international cricket and dates back to 1882. It is cur- rently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues being in opposite hemispheres, the break between series alternates be- tween 18 and 30 months. A series of “The Ashes” comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for Test match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country already holding the Ash- The Ashes symbollic urn es retains them. urn has been presented to the winners of The urn is erroneously believed by some an Ashes series as the official trophy of The series is named after a satirical obitu- to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it that series. ary published in a British newspaper, The has never been formally adopted as such Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at and Bligh always considered it to be a England is the current holder after win- The Oval in which Australia beat England personal gift. ning the Ashes in 2009 and again in the on an English ground for the first time. 2010/11 series in Australia. The obituary stated that English cricket Replicas of the urn are often held aloft had died, and the body will be cremated by victorious teams as a symbol of their Urn and the ashes taken to Australia. The Eng- victory in an Ashes series, but the actual As it took many years for the name “The lish media dubbed the next English tour urn has never been presented or displayed Ashes” to be given to the ongoing series to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to re- as a trophy in this way. Whichever side between England and Australia, there was gain The Ashes. holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains no concept of there being a representation in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum of the ashes being presented to the win- During that tour a small terracotta urn was at Lord’s since being presented to the ners. As late as 1925 the following verse presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by MCC by Bligh’s widow upon his death. appeared in The Cricketers Annual: a group of Melbourne women. The con- tents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Water- of an item of cricket equipment, a bail. ford Crystal representation of the Ashes continued on page 6 WINTER ISSUE 2011 WWW.AMERICANCRICKETER.COM 5 continued from page 6 So here’s to Chapman, Hendren and Hobbs, Gilligan, Woolley and Hearne: May they bring back to the Motherland, the ashes which have no urn! Nevertheless, several attempts had been made to embody The Ashes in a physi- cal memorial. Examples include one presented to Warner in 1904, another to Australian Captain M.A. Noble in 1909, and another to Australian Captain W.M. Woodfull in 1934. The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, lat- er Lord Darnley, during the 1882–83 tour. The precise nature of the origin of this urn is matter of dispute. Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley’s later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883. England retains The Ashes More recent researchers, in particular The contents of the Darnley urn are also the urn said the veil legend had been dis- Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have stud- problematic; they were variously reported counted, and it was now “95% certain” ied the tour in detail and concluded that to be the remains of a stump, bail or the that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket the presentation was made after a private outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darn- bail. Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 cricket match played over Christmas ley’s 82-year-old daughter-in-law said November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn 1882 when the English team were guests they were the remains of her mother-in- had shown the pedestal and handles were of Sir William Clarke, at his property law’s veil, casting a further layer of doubt cracked, and repair work had to be carried “Rupertswood”, in Sunbury, Victoria. on the matter. out. The urn is made of terracotta and is This was before the matches had started. about six inches (150 mm) tall and may The prime evidence for this theory was However, during the tour of Australia in originally have been a perfume jar. provided by a descendant of Clarke. 2006/7, the MCC official accompanying Ashes: England side yet to peak, says Andrew Strauss BBC, London uccess down under has raised hopes England’s emphatic 3-1 victory - their Strauss is determined that the side does Sthat England - ranked third in the first in Australia for 24 years - was sealed not stand still and bask in their achieve- world - can challenge for the number one courtesy of an innings and 83-run win in ments of the last six weeks.