Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/Review/Philadelphian cricket team


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Philadelphian cricket team
This has easily passed the criteria for a B-class rating. It was previously given an informal A-class rating and should now be subject to formal review. BlackJack | talk page 16:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I see that the Sports WP have already rated this as an A. I don't know how rigorous their process was. JH (talk page) 18:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing against Americans of course, but as the creator of the Philadelphian cricket team article, I must point out that I am actually English! User:Evadb, who is American, did a very good job on it too. Not sure about putting it forward for A class just yet though, it needs a little more work on the non first-class matches the team played, especially the regular matches they played against Bermuda between 1907 and 1928. Andrew nixon (talk) 18:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Rereading it, this is an excellent article, but there's a problem very early on: Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, the sport began a slow decline in the country. A citation is given against this (the very first citation in fact), but unfortunately the cited Cricinfo article doesn't seem to mention the sport's decline in America. It's actually about the C. Christopher Morris Cricket Library. Also the wording that I've quoted rather gives the impression that the decline began more or less at the same time as that 1844 fixture, rather than some twenty years later (which is my understanding). JH (talk page) 19:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that first citation might have been intended to be JH (talk page) 19:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Searching on CA shows that "All Philadelphia" played a number of matches between 1918 and 1923, and one final fixture in 1928 against Bermuda, but none were first-class. However it's probably worth a brief mention. (Rereading what Andrew wrote a bit more carefully, I see that he's already mentioned this. It also needs to be reflected in the History of US cricket article) JH (talk page) 18:47, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

This review as been closed without resolution as the cricket A-class review department is currently inactive.  Harrias  talk 21:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)


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