South Korea take the cricket plunge

http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/cricket/2...52389.html

Quote:If you were walking past a cricket ground and a ball dropped from the sky and landed next to you, your first thought would probably not be 'that must have been hit by a Korean'. But you might start thinking differently this September when South Korea's newly formed Twenty20 team make its Asian Games debut to challenge the likes of Sri Lanka and defending champions Bangladesh. The team – unlike other embryonic cricket nations built on second-generation immigrants from the subcontinent – is fully South Korean. What made them ready for international competition was the fact that all of them were baseball players.

Park Soochan, 23, spinner
"You must be able to cope with different types of balls - speed, length, line and trajectory - which makes it very challenging. I like that the whole team must focus because they're all bowling and fielding and have to change positions constantly to outmanoeuvre the batters. This creates more unity and focus than baseball."

http://www.8asians.com/2012/08/20/do-asi...al-vision/

Great Scott !  ::LOL::

I still think Orientals have a peripheral vision issue !

That is heartening to know that more and more teams are joining the Cricketing World. However, it is just interesting that in so many years with so many different teams from the Middle East and some from South America and even Canada.

Nothing seemed to have happened. Only 10 teams worth their salt!! Interesting, ain't it?

I hope the South Koreans are here for long.