{"id":9825,"date":"2013-01-12T10:08:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T02:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T06:07:12","slug":"japan-to-tour-scotland-to-celebrate-150-years-of-cricket-history-between-the-two-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/japan-to-tour-scotland-to-celebrate-150-years-of-cricket-history-between-the-two-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to tour Scotland to celebrate 150 years of cricket history between the two countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/mobile\/sport\/cricket\/scots-are-playing-pivotal-roles-in-development-of-cricket-in-japan.19885512?_=3ad22756498ee09bbffc29a627e4622e1ca9202f<\/a><\/p>\n

In previous posts on this blog the Shanghai Scottish Propaganda Dept has often pointed out that it was the Scots\u00a0and not their uppity Sassenach neighbours\u00a0who were instrumental in getting cricket going in Shanghai. Likewise Japan owes its cricketing origins to a Scot who moved from Shanghai to Yokohama in the 1860s as the attached link highlights. 150 years on and it is still someone of Scottish descent that is driving Japanese cricket forward. A few of the older guys will remember their current CEO Alex Miyaji as well as these wonderful days between 2008 and 2010 when the Japanese womens team lit up the Shanghai Sixes with their unique brand of youthful exuberance.\u00a0 So where better place for the Japanese to mark this milestone in their history than in Scotland? Both the\u00a0mens and women teams will be touring Scotland\u00a0this May and I will be\u00a0sponsoring and hosting\u00a0one of their fixtures at my old club in Glasgow. In addition, thanks in part to\u00a0persuasive powers of Richard Graham, the former SCC President who got cricket going again in Shanghai in the early 1990s,\u00a0the Japanese will also be playing a game at Lords. \u00a0The tour\u00a0will of course\u00a0include an\u00a0international match between the Scottish and Japanese womens teams something that connects a few\u00a0honourable Bashers with impeccable pedigree such as Woodstock who\u00a0hold the unique distinction\u00a0of playing in “international” games against both the Scottish women and Japanese women.<\/p>\n

Hopefully one day the powers to be will arrange for the Japanese to play in Shanghai again or vice versa but until then Glasgow and Edinburgh in the first week of May is where Shanghai, Scotland and Japan will reconnect 150 years\u00a0on from\u00a0that day in 1862.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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