Queens One Win Away From Being Kings, ACC-NY Decapitated in Semi-final
John AaronNew YorkNews August 29, 2024
By John L. AaronThe Caribbean Premier League’s acronym, CPL, is also used as a Cricket Played Louder tagline, and rightly so, as the spectators at CPL matches can be very boisterous in their support of cricket and their teams. Like the CPL’s use of “Cricket Played Louder,” the Queens... Read more
Atlantis Advances To NYNCL Semi-Final Round
John AaronNew YorkNews August 25, 2024
By John L. AaronAtlantis Cricket Club-NY (ACC) advanced closer to the New York National Cricket League Premier 40-Overs 2024 championship by defeating Meten-Meer-Zorg (MMZ) for the second time in as many weeks. The two teams had drawn slots for the quarter-finals of this year’s Premier 40-overs tournament, with ACC... Read more
Atlantis Meets the Mere Requirements
John AaronNew YorkNews August 16, 2024
By John L. AaronThe match may have been designed for Atlantis Cricket Club—NY to hit the dreaded Zorg or advance to meet its next opponent in the 2024 playoffs of the New York National Cricket League’s Premier 40-overs tournament. It was a fun play on the words of its... Read more
Fighters Unite to Defeat Atlantis
John AaronNew YorkNews August 3, 2024
By John L. AaronIt was the Team United Fighters Cricket Club who made it a humiliating 2-1 gang brawl beat down, or more like a beat up of Atlantis Cricket Club-NY last Sunday in the New York National Cricket League’s 40-overs Premier fixture at Baisley Pond Park in Queens,... Read more
Atlantis Finds Everest A Tough Climb
John AaronNew YorkNews July 18, 2024
By John L. AaronMount Everest is the highest mountain on earth above sea level, with a peak that reaches up into the heavens at more than 29,000 feet, almost the flying height of some aircraft. Well, Atlantis Cricket Club-NY found Everest ACS Cricket Club nearly as high a climb... Read more
By John L. AaronIt may have been intended to mimic a reprisal of the role of Chris played by Yul Bryner in the 1960 classic “The Magnificent Seven,” except it was a Cyril Choy-led motley but courageous Port Mourant Cricket Club crew against Atlantis Cricket Club-NY on Sunday, July... Read more
By John L. AaronThe words, “Give me liberty or give me death,” uttered by the Virginia revolutionist Patrick Henry almost 250 years ago, may not apply to the 40-overs encounter between Atlantis Cricket Club-NY and Liberty Richmond Hill Cricket Club fought this past Sunday at The Cage in Jamaica,... Read more
Atlantis Ventures Deep Into The Galaxy
John AaronNew YorkNews June 29, 2024
By John L. AaronIn a fixture not scheduled to be played in the Milkyway, Atlantis Cricket Club-NY ventured closer than Earth is from the Andromeda Galaxy. Like light years away in the universe, Atlantis was able to get close enough to defeat Galaxy Cricket Club by six wickets. The... Read more
Atlantis Bounces Back In Elite Fashion
John AaronNew YorkNews June 19, 2024
John L. AaronBouncing back after a seven-wicket loss to Majestic Cricket Club one weekend ago, the boys in yellow and green bounced back into the winning column with a 185-run victory over Elite Cricket Club at Idlewild Cricket Ground in Rosedale, Queens, NY. Winning the toss and electing to... Read more
Majestic Rides Royal Over Atlantis
John AaronNew YorkNews June 16, 2024
By John L. AaronWith a performance akin to a phoenix rising from the ashes, Majestic Cricket Club asserted its dominance by triumphing over Atlantis Cricket Club-NY last Sunday at Cunningham Park in Queens, NY. The match, which saw Majestic win by seven wickets, marked Atlantis’ first season loss, leaving... Read more
