The Most Delightfully Sassy Account On Twitter Belongs To Iceland’s Official Cricket Team?
They love feuding with other extremely cold countries.
Twitter is an ever burning garbage-fire, populated by a complex hierarchy of fools, desperate jokesters, edgy inner-city Melbourne philosophy students and angry fast-food brands. But somewhere amongst the billowing noxious fumes and the crackling bin-juice of hot takes, are cool breaths of fresh air. Meet Iceland Cricket.
I don’t know if there’s a rich history of wonderful cricket teams on Twitter creating fire content that I’ve been sleeping on, and frankly I will never bother to find out.
But it’s much more likely that Iceland Cricket has lucked into a wonderful social media manager. Are they professional? Are they a member of the cricket team with a desire to expand their skills? Is it some sort of sassy niece? Who knows. It’s not important.
What is important is that the account pumps out some absolutely beautiful content — fermenting some weirdly pure online beefs with other cricket teams, and pushing the probably fake theory that Iceland was actually the original home of cricket, invented by Vikings in 911 AD.
Get that man a bjór! He’s unearthed the scorecard of the first cricket match played in Iceland since the umpires of fate brought the Vikings into the pavilion of destiny for bad light. Thank you so much for finding it, James! https://t.co/W11dQ6174Q
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 21, 2018
How about a book, written by us, about cricket in Iceland? How the Vikings invented the game, how we started our modern team, and how we took social media by storm. All written by the person who does our tweets. Would you buy it if we wrote it?
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 10, 2018
They LOVE gentle Twitter feuds.
Slovenia’s song HVALA NE is very close to the Icelandic HVALUR NEI which means OH NO, A WHALE! #ESC18
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 12, 2018
Time for another Twitter followers battle. Next up is @guernseycricket. Kind of similar to us but more boring. We both have cows but we invented skyr whereas they went no further than cream. We both have traditional wool sweaters but ours is more interesting and harder to knit. pic.twitter.com/iq3R8NLEtI
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 17, 2018
Don’t visit the glacier caves of Iceland. Visit Guernsey and see these concrete towers, which were built in 1778, and were used as concrete towers, with the aim of stopping anyone coming to Guernsey who didn’t love concrete towers. A purpose they still fulfil to this very day. pic.twitter.com/1cTSx1P2Tp
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 18, 2018
Guernsey will never recover from these burns tbh. Suck it, Guernsey.
Cricket is a relatively new to Iceland. There are currently only two teams in the whole country — the Reykjavík Vikings and Kópavogur Puffins, with expatriate players in the majority. The two teams were formed out of necessity, as they lacked anyone else within the Arctic Circle to play against with enough regularity to make it worthwhile.
As this profile on the team says:
“The aim is to have cricket all year round, but that turns out to be easier said than done. From mid-May to mid-August, the sun only sets for three hours every day … In the remaining months, it’s pitch dark apart from five hours each day.”
However, despite the unique challenges of sport in a country north of The Wall, they have big dreams of whacking the little leather ball better than every other country in the galaxy.
And while they’re doing so, they’re also posting good wholesome content.
This is our tour manager Ásbjörn. He jumbled up the letters R and C and sent the Iceland team to Malahide to play Pakistan. He’s a cetacded runt and we’ve tecminated his rontcart. pic.twitter.com/CYl5op6mhU
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 11, 2018
He can ride horses, fly planes, wrestle bears, eat bricks, fart the national anthem and shoot the moon through a basketball hoop. One day he might even win an election without imprisoning the opposition. Let’s take on his @cricketrussia team and overtake their Twitter followers. pic.twitter.com/7RAlpjg2el
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) April 30, 2018
Yesterday we said that the President of the USA would never visit somewhere like Denmark. We stand corrected. pic.twitter.com/MN2H5jOEyk
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 13, 2018
So we gained 2000 Twitter followers in 48 hours. Which was nice. Next we must overtake @dcfcricket while they’re distracted by an important meeting at Denmark Cricket head office. They’re looking for a slightly orangey one with four nobbly bits and a sort of lump on the end. pic.twitter.com/8mOBrKQOg2
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 12, 2018
Many of you have asked us to get our Twitter account @verified. Apparently people think we must be a hoax because there’s no way a sports team can handle social media as brilliantly as us and still be real. However @twitter has stopped giving out blue ticks, so we can’t have one.
— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) May 18, 2018