what is the fans group of the english cricket team known as?
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Barmy Army!\n\nBarmy has been derived from the english word Barm meaning "fan".\nActually it all started with the English fans who went to cheer up their team in Australia. At that time England (1995) were in dire straits and hardly winning any matches and lost to even lowly placed teams like Zimbabwe. This organised fan club boosted the England team with various ways dancing, chanting songs, drums, banners, etc. And fortunately England could win a Test Match at Adelaide and there on this fan club become popular and started supporting the England team on overseas tours. The following history of events could be of interest to you: \n\nJanuary 1995; Barmy Army 1,000 strong in Sydney\n\nMarch 1995; Cheer on England to famous victory in Adelaide. First Barmy Army T-shirt design created.\n\nSummer 1995; Edgbaston reunion. On day 3, England lost by lunch to the West Indies.\n\nNovember 1995; Tour to South Africa, no victories.\n\nJanuary 1996; First Barmy Army Cricket Club game against a Soweto XI - began as we carried on by losing. We raised 5,000 Rand (approximately £900).\n\nSummer 1996; Barmy Army reunions at India and Pakistan tests.\n\nNovember 1996; Zimbabwe, tied test and the Army do well not to react to goading from opposition fans.\n\nJanuary 1997; Great night celebrating series win over New Zealand\n\nSummer 1997; Ashes series at home. CD single 'We are England' released two months too late, just after England lose the series 3-2. The reunion at Edgbaston saw the Army cheer England to a one nil lead; after a marvellous knock by Mark Taylor, under intense media pressure, and a deluge of rain, England attacked the Australian bowling as if it was a one-day game. Athers cannot remember such awesome support at a home game on that famous Sunday afternoon in Birmingham.\n\nJan-Mar 1998; Caribbean tour - The Barmy Army were out-sung and out-partied by the Trini Posse, a sponsored, professional supporters group from Trinidad and backed by the W.I.C.B. - they vowed to out-sing them next time.\n\nAugust 1998; Win a series at home against the South Africans. Watched by many members but not in large groups due to difficulty in obtaining tickets.\n\nNov 98-Feb 99; Ashes tour in Australia. Brilliant tour, huge media interest, two big Barmy Army bashes, some good cricket and an amazing win at Melbourne. Barmy Army CC take on Middle Park and, true to form, lose. Barmy Army wedding at Adelaide Oval.\n\nApril 1999; Sharjah tournament, those who could make it had a great time.\n\nSummer 1999; Barmy Army's World Cup anthem, 'Come on England' produced and attracts support from many celebrities and sports personalities who appear in the promotional video.\n\nNovember 1999-2000; Another successful tour to South Africa, great support for the boys and a Pretoria victory. Memorable tour for those lucky enough to be there - is the England team starting to come together?\n\nSummer 2000; Areas set aside for the Barmy Army at Test match weekends - when the game lasted that long! BACC played six games in the South West, winning two of them. Aiming to have BACC games in other regions soon.\n\nNovember 2000: Pakistan The Barmy Army faithful braved the hardest tour of all to Pakistan, witnessing some resilient English cricket, and leaving with memories never to be forgotten.\n\nMarch 2001: Sri Lanka The Army turned up in their thousands for the far more exotic location of Sri Lanka. The victories in Kandy and Colombo were perhaps as memorable as recent away wins in Melbourne and Pretoria. The noise at Colombo when England chased the small target set them vibrated around the whole ground, with all England fans singing together.\n\nNovember 2001: India The Barmy Army faithful once again braved a difficult tour, the threat of violence between India and Pakistan was ignored by many with Bangalore being the most popular venue, but unfortunately having the worst weather.\n\nFebruary 2002: New Zealand Again the Army turned out in th
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I have never attended an England game, probably because the tickets were out of my range.  However, I am a fan of the game particularly when England is playing.\nIt was always my belief, that if you attended games, you were a SUPPORTER (because you bought tickets) otherwise you were a FAN.  (No closet though)
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The best fans are Red Sox Nation fans! We are found in ALL American cities! We waited out the curse, and now we still love our Sox!!\n\nCleveland fans are also always loyal to the Tribe, win or lose!\n\nDo not know about the worst.\n\nThis is actually a very difficult question for me, personally to answer! You see, I love four teams, in four different cities!\n\nI love the Boston Red Sox, because of all the "characters" on the team, though we have lost some good ones since last year :-(( Boston is a great baseball city. The Red Sox have sold out ALL of their home games for two years now, and all of them so far this year. Great fans supporting a great team!\n\nThe New York Yankees have a few of my favorite players, too.  Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, and now! Coco Crisp (from Cleveland)! AND Johnny Damon (from Boston)! Yankees fans are very loyal, and very noisy in support of their team, year after year!\n\nThe Cleveland Indians are my hometown team, and I love them, too. Win or lose, we love our Indians!\n\nI also love the San Francisco Giants (who now have Omar Vizquel, from Cleveland!) but it is because of their announcers, Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper. These two have such a pleasant, fair, cheerful, laidback way of announcing Giants games, that I am now a fan, simply to hear them call the game!
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On average, the Red Sox fans have the bigger passion/more dedicated fans.  I'm a Yankee fan, and although it is hard for me to write that - because there are many ridiculously dedicated and intelligent New York Yankee fans - but if you consider the amount of dedication per the average fan - the Red Sox have to win.  They are truly dedicated, and as a baseball fan I have to respect that.  That said, go Yanks and Bostonian's don't forget you spent the 2nd most amount of money last year - so don't call yourself a small market team!  You're champs now anyway, right?  Go Damon!
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call urself england till u die-  u complete fucking wanker B.N.P stands up for england u tit
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Who cares -- what is all the hype about - cricket is a shite game!!!\n\n...and England are a shite team....as is being proved!!!!
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Don't listen to them!\nAUSTRALIA!! number 1 in Tests and 1 day matches! Nuff said!
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Cricket, come on England!!!!!!!
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sachin lara and steve waugh...\nsachins bat is called genius\nlara's bat is called wizard\nwaugh's bat is called typhoon
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The series is named after a satirical obituary published in The Sporting Times in 1882 following the match at The Oval, in which Australia beat England in England for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia as the quest to regain The Ashes. A small terracotta urn was presented to the England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women after England's victory in the Test series. The urn is reputed to contain a set of burnt bails symbolising "the ashes of English cricket". While the urn has come to symbolise the Ashes series, the name The Ashes predates the existence of the urn. The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side "holds" the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's. Since the 1998-99 Ashes series, a Waterford crystal trophy has been presented to the winners.
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Cricket is popular in the following countries:\n\n1)  West Indies.\n2)  England.\n3)  Australia.\n4)  South Africa.\n5)  Sri Lanka.\n6)  Pkistan.\n7)  New Zeland.\n8)  India.\n9)  Zimbawe.\n10) Bangladesh.\n\nHowever, cricket is most popular in the following countries:\n\n1)  West Indies.\n2)  India.\n3)  England.\n4)  Australia.\n5)  Pakistan.
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You know what is cricket?
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Well Aswin, I will say INDIA bcoz,\n\nIndian team is an international cricket team which represents INDIA governed by BCCI.It started in ENGLAND as a test cricket before many years.In the starting INDIA played well.But in the middle,they struggled a lot by giving the reasons that bowling is not good,pitch is not good,batting is not good....Now-a-days,INDIA is doing well in home as well as outside.Our top batting order is very strong.Current status of Indian cricket is very good. Now the dependency of the team on Sachin has reduced. Every player is equally participating in the victory of the team from top order to a middle order to number 11 player.Now we are winning many matches by building good partnership.Before,we lacked consistency much.If one player falls,all falls immediately.But now we have developed that.We are also able to be consistent.Bowlers are also doing great.Our current status is shown by the cricket ratings.Still we can develop a lot if we does not bring cricket as a politics(which goes on the underneath of the selection procedure.).Coach Greg Chappel has played a vital role in changing the face of Indian cricket team.They work hard to bring their talents out.. Our indian team does its best in every test and moreover they are managed by good team captain and the coach.Captainship under rahul dravid is simply awesome as it can b seen frm de way de team had performed all these days!!greg chappel is shaping a perfect combination in indian cricket team with mix of youth and experience.Although the team needs to improve on some fronts chappel is sure to raise the team to heights that were unknown to many indian fans.The present bunch has everything to make a world cup winner!!!
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WHAT\n\nHate to have to inform you of this but England won our last series against the Aussies
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As far as test cricket goes the ashes is the most famous and possibly important series on earth \n\nBut for ODI (one day internationals for those who don't fully understand cricket) the world cup always has and always will be the holy grail
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Australia,India,England,Pakistan
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there sure are, Man United, has the largest fan base of any team of any sport in the world. More than the Yankees for sure.