I believe I understand the game of cricket. I used to live in Worcester and was a member of their club at the time that some of the world cup matches were held at New Road.

I have never attended a hockey game that lasted 3 hours

I've been playing loads of cricket over here in vancouver. The men have a fair few games and a league. As a woman I have to play in womens teams a league for which which isn't nearly as well set up yet.

Or surprisingly enough in Calgary.

http://cricketcalgary.com/

Firstly, there is a Newfoundland Cricket Association & League:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Newfo...85095814896295

and a league sponsored by an Indian company:

http://www.canadacricket.com/nlcricket/

Secondly, Indian food is available here. Not as widely or perhaps at the same quality as elsewhere in Canada or the UK, but there are 3 or 4 Indian restaurants in St. John's & the weekly St John's farmers market has 2-3 vendors selling Indian food. Mrs AX goes there most weekends for her fix.

Thrirdly,Fish and Chips is a staple food in Newfoundland. It will always be cod and chips but finding a decent chippy is not a problem.

Fourthly, there are a plethora of expatriate Brits and even Aussies in St John's, largely because of the Oil and Gas boom.

Finally, Former Lancastrian probably has never met a Newfie. Or believes Buddy Wassisname is real. Either way on the subject of Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders, he's full of sh1t.

No...I miss it as much as I do a root canal treatment.......even if the Dentist was paying ME to undergo it!

I think the OP is long gone, but from todays local paper:

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Loca...-for-cricket/1

HID got some of her schools to participate in a cricket training program. It was quite extensive, the children all had a great time (it's a stick and a ball game ffs), the parents seemed to genuinely be pleased but after the program finished it just died, there was no follow up and no teacher continued it, even though the program left four full Kwik cricket sets in each school.

It is odd that it's not more popular in North America, because you'd be hard-pushed to come up with a game that's got more opportunities for statistics and ad-breaks.

Could you imagine the stiffy that the TV execs would get if an important hockey game was scheduled for FIVE DAYS?!!

* Unfortunately, they actually last longer than that as they're organized into a series of games over a week or so.

Nobody outside of Canada watches the regular season.

I played for Vancouver CC back in the late 1980s when as a lad I was working (black) on construction sites. It was a good standard and we had a guy on our team who had played for Canada - they enter and get nowhere in the cricket world cup.

Our pitch was in Stanley Park and on one memorable occasion I got up at 4am and we went down to Seattle for a game as their Boeing staff are multi-national. Fielding on the boundary, a tubby all-American teenage girl came by and asked me, "What the hell are you guys doing?"

The Vancouver universities, UBC and Simon Fraser, had high quality players and a team called Caribe had very fast bowlers. It was fun and some members of our team used it as an opportunity to escape the wife and kids and drink beer hidden in paper bags all day then drive home. The British emigres always struck me as lonely.