Cricket
Guernsey was declared an affiliate member by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2005.
There is a Channel Islands League in which Guernsey teams participate as well as an Inter Island Annual match against Jersey
see http://www.guernseycricket.com/
Read more about this topic: Sport In Guernsey
Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)