George Dubya Bush to "participate'' in a cricket match in Pakistan

[norml]

Originally posted: February 24, 2006

Cricket in Pakistan: Mighty sporting of President Bush

Posted by Mark Silva at 4:10 pm CST


President Bush has little time for cultural affairs on his planned trip to India next week -- no side-trips to the Taj Mahal, for instance.

But Bush plans to take in a cricket match in Pakistan.


The president will "participate'' in a cricket match as he passes through Islamabad next week on his way home from New Delhi and Hyderabad in India, according to National Security Advisor Steve Hadley.

This is the time for a sporting-event photo opportunity in a country where people have been rioting in the streets over a Danish cartoon that defamed the prophet of Islam?

The violence has subsided, Hadley suggests.

But does this mean that Bush, a former co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, will actually play cricket?


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http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/02/cricket_in_paki.html

[tenshi816]

1. Maybe they'll have him kneel down,

rest his head on the wicket, and let the bowler throw the ball at him.

[phoebe]

2. Cherist..enjoy the angry crowds in India Bushie boy - hope you don't

have to travel through one - it can get very ugly..

[Burried News]

3. He would do Polo but is afraid of horses - PS horses are also

afraid of him.

Maybe some other time he can be the goat in bushkashi.

[dysfunctional press]

11. BUSH-Kashi?

it sounds like he'd be a natural as goat.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. bull. He's just going to watch...

Hadley had a press conference yesterday detailing the plans of the trip. Reporter asked him specifically if georgie was going to play. It took him awhile to get around to saying no.

[norml]

7. Maybe Dubya is going to try to throw out the first ball.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. He'd have to learn how to do it

Cricket bowling isn't something you just pick up the ball and do.

Although Bush might pick up the ball, do something stupid and embarrassing, and then smirk at the crowd as if he'd been terribly clever.

[FightingIrish]

5. I didn't know they had cheerleaders in cricket.

[Botany]

6. He should go and meet the locals .....

..... go on a little walking tour.



Betya the locals would love to meet him.

[Odin2005]

8. The Roman emperor Commodus liked fighting in the Coliseum

He was also mad, take from that what you will. :yoiks:

[DavidDvorkin]

14. Commodus was also huge and strong and a genuine athlete

He didn't have to pretend.

[Beelzebud]

9. It's just a cover story for his meeting with Bin Laden.

[malaise]

10. I posted this last night on another thread

"I'm a cricket match person. I appreciate it. As I understand it, I may have a little chance to learn something about cricket. It's a great pastime."
The US President George Bush aims to watch some matches while visiting India
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/quote/content/current/page/156062.html

I hope for his sake that no cricket journalist asks him to explain the game.

[MazeRat7]

12. I wonder if he is asking a local to catch his "crickets" for him ?

Or is he just going to request they be flown in from Texas ?

-nuff said.

MZr7

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. ROFL!

:rofl: Really! :rofl: BRING EM ON!

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Perhaps it'll be like the Monty Python sketch

"Batsmen of the Kalahari."

Typical of Umbonga's hostile opening spell was his dismissal of V.E. Pratt, who offered no resistance to this delivery... (cut to native bowler bowling a machete; it hits the ground and does a leg spin up, slicing off the batsman's head as he waves his bat) ... and he was caught behind. (The batsman's severed head lands in the wicket keeper's gloves. He throws it in the air with a flourish.)