The International Cricket Thread

[Risso]

Piss poor effort from the shackle-rattlers this.

[Risso]

Get in.

[Villa Lew]

So much for playing it safe, that was brilliant by England, Roy, Bairstow, Archer, Woakes and Rashid all superb.

Gotta be strong favourites for Sunday.

[cdbearsfan]

Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

[Nev]

Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Bob Geldof got one. What about West Indians and South Africans?

[olaftab]

Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Plus  others I cant remember.

[olaftab]

Full list:
Sir Learie Constantine (Trinidad, later Lord Constantine)
Reverend Sir Wes Hall (Barbados)
Sir Conrad Hunte (Barbados)
Sir Viv Richards (Antigua)
Sir Richie Richardson (Antigua)
Sir Andy Roberts (Antigua)
Sir Garfield Sobers (Barbados)
Sir Clyde Walcott (Barbados)
Sir Everton Weekes (Barbados)
Sir Frank Worrell (Barbados)

[PaulWinch again]

Marvellous stuff, now back it up in the final.

[manic-road]

It's coming home.

[dave shelley]

Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Plus  others I cant remember.

Sir Learie Constantine.

[cdbearsfan]

Seems to vary from island to island. Usain Bolt doesn't have one, for instance.

Read about Geldof and apparently he's a KBE, not allowed to be a knight as not born in the Commonwealth. So when the press call him "Sir Bob", they're wrong.

[Monty]

Savage stuff, a real funeralling.

[Villan For Life]

Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Bob Geldof got one. What about West Indians and South Africans?

Eire aren’t a member of the commonwealth so Geldof didn’t get a full knighthood just an honorary one. The individual islands that make up the West Indies are members of the commonwealth so the likes of Sir Viv etc got full knighthoods.

[Villan For Life]

For anyone that doesn’t have Sky Sports then the final is available on Channel 4 and More 4, they’re sharing the coverage.

[UK Redsox]

Not wishing to get ahead of ourselves, but are Irish people allowed to be knighted?

Terry Wogan
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