Cricket Players Autographs - Invincibles and Don Bradman

[gonefishin]

I recently just purchased and received my first Cricket players autographs. I've never followed or watched a Cricket game but couldn't pass this display piece up. Just wondering what the forum thinks of Cricket and if anyone out there collects the player's autographs. Yes, this piece came all the way from Australia!

[Michael B]

I don't collect cricket, but I did watch some of The Ashes test series when I was in Australia in November/December 2002. I do not understand the sport, but I still watched as it dominated the telly. They took place in Melbourne at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Grounds) and I was in Sydney. Just one year later the Rugby World Cup was in Sydney, but I had been alerted about the double/triple hotel rates so I went to Brisbane instead and watch from there.

[doug.goodman]

I'm fascinated by cricket, as all baseball fans should / could be. I have a bunch of old cards and woodcuts.

I played once (not very well) in a London park while on tour.

I also went to a game in Sydney in 2015

https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cri...081-2023-06-30

I was at the game with an American friend of mine, and while neither of us understood exactly what we were seeing, we each realized we were seeing something special.

I didn't realize how special until I was washing my hands in the rest room during the break in the middle of the match, I overheard two guys talking about how remarkable the performance was that we had all just seen from AB de Villiers, and said to them "So I guess I picked a good match to be my first?"

They both gasped and one of them turned, stared me straight in the eyes, pointing into my chest :

"Mate, seriously?! You should leave right now, don't watch the rest of this one, and ever go to another match in your life. Seriously mate, you will never see anything like what you have just seen."

I think if that guy had gone to Ohtani's 6 for 6, 3 hr, 50-50 game it would have been similar.