Irish 16 year old cricketer sets world record!!

[Bluerover]

Brilliant!

Sweet 16 - Ireland’s Amy Hunter becomes youngest person to hit international century on her birthday

Amy Hunter became the youngest cricket player to score an international century in the Ireland women’s clash against Zimbabwe.

www.independent.ie

 

[dublinbluenose]

There is a theory that cricket is a version of an old Irish games similar to hurling. A lot of cricket phrases which make no sense in English are very similar to Gaelic phrases.

 

[Bluerover]

There is a theory that cricket is a version of an old Irish games similar to hurling. A lot of cricket phrases which make no sense in English are very similar to Gaelic phrases.

Aussie Rules football still has the two outside posts that were in GAA in the early years, but no goal. The reason Rules is played on an oval pitch is because they used cricket stadia in the early days.

 

[magicjuan]

There is a theory that cricket is a version of an old Irish games similar to hurling. A lot of cricket phrases which make no sense in English are very similar to Gaelic phrases.

Like O'wzat?

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Brilliant!

Sweet 16 - Ireland’s Amy Hunter becomes youngest person to hit international century on her birthday

Amy Hunter became the youngest cricket player to score an international century in the Ireland women’s clash against Zimbabwe.

www.independent.ie

Impressive and how nice that it happened on her birthday

 

[Yarrgh]

There is a theory that cricket is a version of an old Irish games similar to hurling. A lot of cricket phrases which make no sense in English are very similar to Gaelic phrases.

Given how closely interlinked the 2 islands, off the coast of Western Europe, have been for the last how many centuries I would not be surprised at all.

I'm off to Google the theory.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Given how closely interlinked the 2 islands, off the coast of Western Europe, have been for the last how many centuries I would not be surprised at all.

I'm off to Google the theory.

The theory is that Irish conscripts to the British army brought the skills and terms of a hurling type game called catty to a gane that was being played by British Officers. This morphed into modern cricket as it is played today.

Its just a theory but probably has some merit