ICC v Deportes, Sun 28th Jan 2007

Last Sunday saw the first match of Panama´s 4 month Cricket Season. There are about 15 teams in the country, split strictly Muslim and Hindu sides (as you would expect). Alkesh is one of the ICC teams better players, although at this warm-up friendly last Sunday, he only managed 4 runs from the 6 deliveries he faced before being clean bowled. The Panama Cricket Association is registered with the International Cricket Council, and a team (that included Alkesh) played in a tournament in Argentina last year. ICC (Indian Cricket Club) were all out for 60 odd chasing 96. The pitch was an abomination, to be expected as it is also used as a baseball pitch! Without any hint of irony, I am being invited to play for ICC as their "overseas player" next time. I have brought my whites along just in case but as it has been at least 5 years since I took the field, I might just sit and watch another game before taking up the invitation.