Cricket in Latvia had its first known origins in 1998 when staff from the British Embassy in Riga, the country’s capital, gathered together to treat themselves to a taste of home.<\/p>\n
Last year was a high point in the short history of Latvian cricket with the formation of the Riga Cricket Club and its participation in the Tallinn Cup, a tournament hosted by the Estonia Cricket Club, the Baltics’ other cricket club.<\/p>\n
Now the club has more of an Indian influence, with its 15 or so hardy members playing every Sunday during summer when the weather permits.<\/p>\n
With cricket gear not freely available in Riga sports stores, its members were forced to import it from India.<\/p>\n
The Latvian summer is more like a slight punctuation in its winter with a small window of opportunity for play only lasting from April to July.<\/p>\n
Club spokesman, Sumit Chakravorty, said the club would like to entice Latvians to the game but lacks the personnel with the necessary spare time. He will not be deflected easily.<\/p>\n
“Personally I am sold to this game and am ready to do anything possible to
\npromote it.”<\/p>\n
If you are in Latvia and would like a game of cricket, feel free to email Sumit at sfw@sfw.vip.lv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket in Latvia had its first known origins in 1998 when staff from the British Embassy in Riga,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[41577,24482,16657,2483,17428,169,38,168],"class_list":["post-125150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-package","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-latvia","tag-news","tag-riga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116884069839901065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}