Sarasota International Cricket Club
Sarasota, Florida
International West Indies cricketer Kieran Powell has recently made the news while trying to transition from cricket to baseball.
On February 9th Kieran & a film crew from Major League Baseball visited Sarasota International Cricket Club to film Kieran batting cricket style. Two pictures, one showing Bart bowling to Kieran & Richard wicket keeping. The other is a group picture with Kieran.
Peter Street passed away December 5. He had recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Peter was a pillar of the club for many years, umpiring at almost every home match, at Thanksgiving Festivals and on several tours. A gentleman of the old school, he was liked and respected by everyone who played cricket in Sarasota and beyond. He will be fondly remembered and sadly missed by all of us.
Sarasota International Cricket Club is featured in a recent article of LWR LIFE Magazine by Robin Harthill.
Cricket originated during the Dark Ages in Northern Europe, and then popped up in Sarasota some five centuries later. According to local lore, the Sarasota International Cricket Club took root in 1983 in a bar on Siesta Key after a group of British friends bandied about which sport was better, baseball or cricket.
“It might be an apocryphal story, but it probably has a grain of truth,” says Richard Lawrence, president of the Sarasota International Cricket Club (SICC).
Cricket trumped baseball in that debate, and 32 years later I’m about to find out why.
Photo courtesy of LWR LIFE Magazine