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I spent a considerable portion of my Air Force career in England and fell in
love with Cricket while I was there and I've kept following the sport via
the Internet since returning stateside and I just read a piece off the
BBC-site on Cricket in America and I was stoked. I'd seen some people
playing on a wicket in Garland near a creek I frequently fished, but didn't
hold hope that it was much more than a handful of immigrants playing the
equivalent a family picnic softball game. Then I read the BBC account and
the Dallas area was specifically mentioned in that report and I got excited
for a bit, but I'm finding the NTCA site frustrating to follow as a place to
learn what's available to watch locally, opportunities to watch it and I'm
not sure how to read the results, because they don't seem to follow the
well-established convention of Side A won by X runs/wickets as they are
reported in cricketing world in general.

I love the game. The idea of getting a chance to see it played well back
home sounds really cool to me. I'd like the chance to introduce to some of
my friends to it as well, but I have to tell you that the NTCA web-site is
making that a challenge for folks like me who are knowledgeable of cricket
or at least curious. I'm reasonably web-savvy and I'm thinking that I'm
addressing this around the munging, as best I can guess, to actually contact
someone who could line me up with a chance to enjoy some cricket in North
Texas without a satellite dish, but I really won't know until either this
bounces back as un-deliverable or I give up on the unreturned e-mail and
interupt somebody's dinner dialing one of the published phone numbers.

Doc Elder, TSgt/USAF-Ret