Do You Like Rugby and Cricket?

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OperationMiserable64@reddit

I love football and snooker, I like boxing, tennis, darts, as in I'll watch when they're on. I wouldn't know, genuinely, if we won the cricket or rugby. There's a good chance I wouldn't know it's even going on. It would mean nothing to me, and you could tell me that we won the previous tournament and I'd have no idea of that's true or not. Not on my radar at all

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AussieManc@reddit

Given you mentioned the Super League, I would react as normal ~~if~~ when my country won the Rugby League World Cup. And a Cricket World Cup

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MattGSJ@reddit

Love rugby union and cricket equally. Played both at school and later on at club level. RWC 2003 and Ashes wins are my peak memories. Losing at rugby to Wales or Scotland are my lows. Generally like most sports but can’t watch all the histrionics involved in football any more.

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BlackJackKetchum@reddit

Used to care more about rugby, now it’s the other way round - I’m an obsessive England red and white ball watcher. Anyway, World Cup is nice, but it ain’t the Ashes or a Test Series against India.

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Ok_Adhesiveness_8637@reddit

As a saffa living in the UK im pretty sure you know my answer to this lol

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That_Organization901@reddit

Salads don’t win scrums.

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BitIntelligent4486@reddit

Cricket?

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SgtTaco18@reddit

I have fallen in love with cricket since moving to Australia. I also transitioned from being a Union fan for Bath to a Parramatta Eels fan in the NRL.

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Kapika96@reddit

Not interested in cricket at all. I like international rugby. I watch rugby world cup matches whenever I can. I don't like domestic rugby though. IIRC the Premiership is changing to some franchise model too? So it's getting even worse and I'll be less likely to watch it.

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agingbiker@reddit

not interested in rugby - i think it's one of those sports that you need to have played a bit to appreciate. love cricket, and streamed county matches on you tube are my goto. even when middlesex lose. react with some pleasure when uk teams win regardless. react with joy when i see team gb win where i'm invested in the event

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Think-Mine-4816@reddit

Welsh bloke here- Rugby (Union) is my all time favourite sport, both playing and watching. Cricket doesn't move fast enough for me, was always known as a posh sport where I grew up.

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MikeSizemore@reddit

“Anything with a ball, no good.” Martin Scorsese

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oliverprose@reddit

Yes to both, but I'm more interested in international level stuff than club/county

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tobotic@reddit

I enjoy test match cricket because it's the kind of game you can sit outside and half watch while also reading a book and enjoying a cold drink. One of the few sports I actually kind of enjoy watching.

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GarethGazzGravey@reddit

Rugby Union yes. Cricket is the 2nd worst sport ever created, golf being the worst

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Stefgrep66@reddit

Not particularly, although there's evening 20:20 matches at Trent bridge which I wouldn't mind checking out. Test cricket, can't do it. My hate of rugby comes from childhood. I went to a union playing school for a couple of years and as a good sportsman generally, and being very fast, I got picked for the school team I hated the game, at 11 I was about 80 pounds soaking wet, I was not built for rugby!!

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Less-Firefighter2419@reddit

T20, IPL etc are fine. Test Cricket? Fuck no.

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LolaWithTheGreenEyes@reddit

I got up early and watched the 2003 Rugby World Cup. It was awesome. Id love to see England do it again. I like Test Cricket. I'd rather win The Ashes tbh.

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Eyup_Amigo@reddit

I'm not really a rugby person but God I remember watching that

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LolaWithTheGreenEyes@reddit

We had guests crashing on our sofa and didn't believe me when I told them I was waking them up early to watch it. 😆

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FebruaryStars84@reddit

Love cricket, almost no interest at all in rugby.

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donkey_OT@reddit

I don't like cricket

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CrossCityLine@reddit

Cricket yes, rugby fuck no.

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Easy-Equal@reddit

Oh no

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donkey_OT@reddit

I love it!

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Voodoopulse@reddit

I don't like cricket.... oh no....

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question

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theprocrastatron@reddit

I love it.

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Agreeable_Archer_210@reddit

I’m Scottish, am a big rugby fan. The Premiership isn’t as good as it thinks it is - it’s a fun league but the English overestimate the quality. I watch more of the URC. If Scotland ever won the World Cup I would literally never stop talking about it (spoiler - we won’t). I also enjoy cricket having grown up in Yorkshire from a fairly young age. I support England in tests and limited overs (except when they play Scotland), but I’m a lot less invested. So I’m pleased if they win, but Scotland winning/losing in rugby can affect my mood to a frankly embarrassing level.

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Few_House_5201@reddit

To play or to watch? Was good at rugby but hated playing it cause it hurt. Liked playing cricket but was too scared of the hard ball so liked playing with a tennis ball. To watch, love watching rugby but I find cricket a bit dull, just goes on too long really. T20s can be okay though.

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WitShortage@reddit

I love cricket. That day in 2019 when England won the 50 over World Cup was incredible. What a day of emotions. I'm not bothered about rugby.

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Munsteroyal@reddit

Union & cricket are my 2 favourite sports to watch - pretty much year round entertainment for me 😁

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BaBaFiCo@reddit

At most I sometimes pop along to watch the T20 as an excuse to have some beers in the sun. I couldn't care less about domestic or international success in those sports.

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evenifihateit@reddit

I like rugby, not enough to watch regularly but enough to watch the six nations, world cup, random matches that happen to be on when I fancy watching TV Cricket isn't very interesting for me, although the summer of 2005 I watched a lot of it as did just about everyone I know

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Spottyjamie@reddit

No, bit too posh for me

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Old-Brick8218@reddit

Nothing posh about rugby league.

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Derfel60@reddit

I like cricket but i prefer red ball by a long, long way. The Cricket World Cup doesnt really interest me, id much prefer we won The Ashes. Ill occasionally watch rugby union internationals but i find a lot of it quite dull.

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LilacRose32@reddit

No, but I don’t like sport in general.

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Maz-Wye@reddit

NO - Never got into Sport!! Only good thing I can say about Both of these is that theyre More Interesting than Golf.

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

I like cricket. We have won the rugby and cricket world cups

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ResplendentBear@reddit

Love cricket, can't really be bothered with rugby. Doesn't help that I didn't play rugby at school so I genuinely find the rules of the NFL easier to follow. Also quite hard to love the current England cricket team, but that's a separate problem...

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NLFG@reddit

Love rugby union, enjoy league, like cricket. Would be thrilled if we won any of the related world cups.

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jaymatthewbee@reddit

Cricket more than Rugby. Cricket world cup is good but I’d rather England won the Ashes series.

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hopefullforever@reddit

It would be even be better if we won it in Australia!

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