Japan is hosting the first East Asia Cricket Cup in Sano, near Tokyo.
Japan’s cricketers are a long way from competing at the highest level but the game does have a presence in the country.
National cricket team captain, Masaomi Kobayashi, talks to Al Jazeera about the sport’s growing popularity in Japan.
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you all should visit India for tips because as u all know we worship cricket
That’s the first cricket club I have seen where there are no Desi or Brown people
I think in t twenty world cup there should be 32 teams like soccer. So that in limited time match they can experience international cricket . Just an opinion.
ജപ്പാൻ നശിച്ചു…😂😂
Develop well and I will come and play along with you!!! I’m just an ordinary person from India though
Come on Japan, we need China also.
An Asian nation is showing of too much as if it invented the game.
If they start using samurai swords instead of bats and they’ll have the opposition beat
Cricket is very different game & like boxing. You can take victory before full time. And two different parts batting and bowling. But football tennis basketball like victory after the full time.
There should be a world cup for emerging teams so that they get the world stage and we can get to see the teams. This will flourish the game. I know this is not a economically feasible move but it should be arranged to blossom the game. These cricket boards can afford this kinda tournament easily.
Wow that’s good news for us. Watching Japan in cricket world cup will be so great
I’m from the future, in 2080 Japan became world champions in cricket.
I’m also from the future. In the final, they beat Korea by one run after the umpire makes a wrong LBW decision.
lol watching therugby game made us proud so we decided to play cricket instead
Only India is superpower of cricket and this deserve because Indian are most talented person in the world
Ajad Yadav Who just won the Cricket World Cup?
Arigato
Cricket is for the lazy people
People blaming ICC should think about the fact that cricket is reaching other countries dude to them ,and aslo the no of teams in world cup are kept limited so that game doesn’t become one sided
Having only 10 teams in a world cup can never be justified. Just stop.
@Sarban yes it can team on 11th spot can’t even play even against Afghanistan
Wow
like From india 🇮🇳
I would sooo love to see Japan in the World Cup!
Omg I can just see a spin-off anime for it. It’d be amazing!!
Since overshadowing baseball in US is almost impossible, ICC should somehow try to introduce cricket to China.
I would love to see some samuries bat.
We want more cricket teams ,
At Least 30 teams ,😓😓
50 in warm-up matches 😍
What do you think?
Cricket lover from Pakistan 🇵🇰
🤔 Cricket is a long game dude… Not 30 but at least 15-20 teams should be considered…
Yeah man football world cup has 32 we can do at least 16 don’t you agree
Akshit Thakur one World Cup game can take over 9 hours whilst football is done in under 2 hours so it hard to have lots of teams and many countries don’t have enough stadium outside of the top three so it would never happen
That’s if other countries are willing to play the sport and if they do then we’ll have to wait for that to happen.
PKMKB
With the discipline of japan. We might get to see a new power in cricket.
that’s exactly what came to my mind
Somebody needs to make a Cricket Anime for Japan, if it takes off you’ll end up with more kids playing the game
It will be awesome bro and Indian anime enthusiast will surely watch it
Lagaan Anime
@Nikhchan’s Gaming lagan anime modern times
Those who think cricket is only play by 10-12 teams are not aware that there was qualifications for 2 spots in world between other teams, currently 32 countries play crickets and take part in regular iccha events soon the number will touch 50
It’s only played competitively by 10-12 teams. Outside of a select few teams, cricket is a very fringe in the other countries and their cricket teams are extremely low quality.
More teams should be allowed in world cup… and big teams like Australia india sri lanka or england etc should play with these teams it will help them alot but ICC is retarded
Good to see countries get more involved with sports that matters to the rest of the world and not just what matters to America, cause let’s face it, the only good sport out of America is basketball
Good to see cricket in Japan but ICC is playing a negative role in spreading cricket.
Vinod kambli is your new coach 😂
This makes me happy
Don’t mind but please don’t hold the bat like a baseball bat
Love the laver and wood
0:50 Whats is that actually? You will not last 5 overs if you bat like that.
if cricket becomes popular in japan , we hopefully can get more cricket games from like sega , nintendo all that
Hopefully cricket animes
i don’t think there is a sega anymore
@Burrito Bandito sega still makes/publishes games. Total War, Football Manager, Yakuza are some of the games under their name.
@Rishi let’s see
Good that cricket is playing globally now….most countries want to play cricket…. ICC should encourage to turn cricket globally….
Its a honour to play against Japan’s imperial players , from India we are waiting for you .
good we need more team
I m from India
… I play for state cricket level..
I think I should join the team.
Rohit I think it is a good idea …
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
ICC will utterly fail to contribute anything towards the sport’s development there, just like with USA, and then ultimately sabotage Japan’s cricket ambitions, just like with USA.
It will never become mainstream. Rugby is the real future. All blacks are huge there. And baseball has already left a stamp. No way cricket gets a foothold in Japan.
I want cricket to be popular in Japan just so that I can watch a cool shounen Anime on cricket someday.
I can’t believe I never made the connection. Cricket is a gentlemen’s sport and Japanese value respect.
love and best wishes from india 👍👍👍
Best of luck Japan from🇧🇩
awesome to cricket in Japan, get some coaches from Sri lanka to help you out.
Brace yourself Indian team, most perfectionist nation is joining the sport. They can be a competitive side in next 7-8 years.
Cricket is the most technical game for those nations who don’t play it.
Y’all know it’s time for Japan to join the league of cricket alongside India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, NZ etc etc etc ….
Come on Japan
Wow amazing love from india🎃🎃
🏏India Vs Japan, India Vs China India Vs Russia,😍🔥
in no time japan came to football, if japanese wants they can climb the ladder in no time
ICC is suck!!!!! Need more countries to compete in ODI. Only India, Aussie, England, Pak, NZ, WI……….. Oh come on……………..
BCCI is ruining cricket image by not letting other teams in world cup tournaments and on other international levels.
Good to see may you guys play well
Love from Pakistan ♥️
I am sure they will be better than India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh in a few decades. This is what happened in the case of football and hockey. Japan started much later and left behind India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries.
The Japanese would good at this gentleman game with their baseball talent.
They were playing rugby well with their football talent.
The guy at 1:30 has a great bowling action.
Naa…inse nehi hoga😂😂
I think, they were playing against Korea . So good to see natives are playing and ICC should do something to speared the cricket all over the world .
Welcome Japan in the Game of Cricket. All the best wishes from Bangladesh.
I would love to play cricket with Hagimaru, Doraemon, Goku, Naruto, Ryu and Shinobi
Japan works so hard and long hrs, how can they enjoy a one day match??🤔🤔
Love from Bangladesh
Cricket is a time wasting game Japanese will never accept cricket . Rugby is entirely different 90 minutes game and no nationality barrier there are 11 foreign players in 24 member Japanese rugby squad.!!!!
Also they know that Cricket is time energy wealth and labor of the society .But it is praised in developing countries which is a white elephant ..!!!!specially in subcontinent and Africa ..!!!!
Now im waiting for a cricket anime 😐
1:33 Its Japan playing Korea!
Remember guys, just don’t let the pajeets in
And this year they qualified for U19 cricket World Cup
Great sport cricket is!
Welcome to Cricket World
Love From 🇱🇰
Great to see! I hope Japan get a national team together! I think Japan would do themselves and the international game so Proud!
I am from future. Japan has qualified for u 19 cricket world cup.
First japan must compete for the Ranji trophy, then play in IPL and then in World Cup 😂😂😂
One day Bangladesh national cricket team will play an one day series with Japan!!
I wanna play for Japan♥️🧡😜love from Bangladesh.we have nearly similar national flags
they are gonna be such a disciplined team
Best of luck Japan love From Bangladesh
Its funny!!
Cricket is great, the only thing I don’t like about it is when a ball hits a person and causes a fatality or a major injury
they should use kotoamatsukami or kamui or amartarasu while playing cricket😁
They laughed at Sri Lanka as they made their way into international cricket. After a couple of decades and a 50over World Cup win no one laughs but respects. I wish the Japanese the same journey.
Japanese groundsmen cricket pitch I would like to see that play out.
*India vs Japan*
India: “Omae wa mou shindeiru”
Japan: “NANI?!?!”
Now i want to see Japan play Kabbadi 😂😂😂
Hiw they will play but cricket is difficult for them because when they will face bowlers like micheal starc
would be great but japan is more loved for baseball and rugby
to all those people here talking about cricket anime,
Actually there is a chance of getting a kabaddi anime more than cricket. There is a manga known as shakunetsu kabaddi which is currently popular in japan and many japanese are taking interest in kabaddi for eg. there are many anime having kabaddi mentions or scenes in it, anime like gintama, chio’s school road, teekyu, fullmetal panic etc. On other hand, they treat cricket like joke just like we cricket lovers treat baseball like a joke.
If you have people in your country who can bowl a ball and people who can swing a bat, you should have a cricket team
Best of luck for bride future
Japan was qualified for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup for the first time in their history
congratulation japan
@ayush thakur yes i knew it congratulation to nigeria
icc should increase all their international tournament (wc, wt20, wwc and u19wc etc)
cricket is greatest game
nice
Nigeria can beat Japan easily
Like nigeria. Zambia should also play cricket
If China ever get’s a cricket team then everyone in team can bowl.
Because they’re ‘Chinaman’…🤣🤣🤣
In Romania also!
2nd T20 International century scorer is from Romania!!!
Welcome….. To India…
@ben2976 yes you’re right Ben. Our BCCI has ruined cricket so much. I always wanted countries like USA, GERMANY, RUSSIA, JAPAN, FRANCE, ITALY ,etc compete in the WC. But it never happened. I hope our new president Sourav Ganguly will definitely look forward to this.
India is getting bored of dominating cricket. Australia and England are the only worthy opponents for us but it would be nice to see new teams who could one day challenge our power.
I don’t see India standing against New Zealand let alone England and Australia.
@Bryce Wakefield new zealand is not consistent even though they are tough opponents. Even bangladesh can beat India once in a while that doesn’t mean they’re the best
@Uzochi Okeke Barring that T20I series, New Zealand literally won every other game against India recently including the world cup encounter. That’s no sign of a fluke.
They will grow because they being using there own player..