Bush Tries His Hand at Cricket (oh, jeez)

[Judi Lynn]

Bush Tries His Hand at Cricket
By VOA Sports
04 March 2006



President George W. Bush
bowls during cricket workshop
as players from
College for Boys look on

While in Pakistan, President Bush tried to learn the game of cricket and how it differs from baseball.

Mr. Bush bowled and batted several times on a small cricket pitch set up on the grounds of the U.S. embassy, as students from the Islamabad College for Boys looked on and encouraged him.


He got a quick lesson on how to hold the bat from the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Shaharyar Khan. Khan also explained to the former owner of a Texas baseball team how cricket, the popular sport of the old British empire, differs from baseball.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-03-04-voa21.cfm

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Bush takes a swing at cricket

Saturday, March 4, 2006; Posted: 9:14 a.m. EST (14:14 GMT)



Bush bowled and batted several times.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- U.S. President George W. Bush, an avid baseball fan, on Saturday tried his hand at a sport hugely popular in parts of the old British empire -- cricket -- and was pronounced "not bad" for a first-timer.

Bush bowled and batted several times on a practice cricket pitch set up on the grounds of the U.S. embassy in the capital of cricket-mad Pakistan, as students from the Islamabad College for Boys and the private school Schola Nova, who included girls, looked on and encouraged him.

He got a quick lesson on how to hold the bat from Shaharyar Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

"He's telling me the difference between baseball and cricket," said Bush, a former owner of a Texas baseball team.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/04/bush.cricket.reut/