Showing posts with label cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cricket. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7

1947 A Cricket Story

This is a story of a handful of Indians who had moved to Finland in the early 40's to work in the very first mobile industry in the cold scandic region..the winters were tough -30 C sometimes..but they worked hard and when the summer came they hit this wonderful idea to start playing Cricket in the summer of 1947 in a small ground in a village called karakallio..they were called the Kara Killers and they were the champions of the tournament that year defeating the hugely popular team of Helsinki Konala Kings..it was a moment to cherish but unlike these days there were no digital cameras but an old and rusty fire flash camera and they had to spend 10 Marka equal to about 50 Euros now-a-days, to get this picture done and unfortunately the huge winter storm of the 60s washed away most of the records and trophies .This picture which we accidently found in one of the storeroom in the Karkelo bar the frequented bar in those times and the tradition continues as we represent the kara killers in the year 2008...in search of more..adios

Tuesday, August 5

Summer 2008 in Finland..


Soon Autumn arrives here in Finland...the nights get longer people get gloomier...
Cheer up folks ..they have found water is Mars so all is not that bad... :-)
It has been a relative wet Summer this year..which is good in a way..ie less allergies
for many and lots of mushrooms to pick..Kids are finishing their holidays and its time
to get back to the routine...we had some fun visiting our friends enjoying the barbeque......we played a bit of cricket and had few tournaments as well...

More details http://geocities.com/nhccevents/...hoping for a Snow filled Winter and maybe more blogging...