UPDATE: Thanks to Page from Dan Radcliffe.co.uk who let us know that via his official reps, the story about Dan Radcliffe playing a game of Cricket in LA is FALSE.
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Sports fan Dan Radcliffe may be coming out to Los Angeles, California this weekend to take part in a celebrity match of one of this favorite sports: Cricket. The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that organizers for the Australia Week G’Day USA festival have added this event their schedule in hopes to further promote Australia in the United States and have a slew of celebrity talent poised to take to the field. The paper is reporting Radcliffe may appear at the game which is said to include other notable names such as Russell Crowe, Jude Law, Robbie Williams, and Mick Jagger. The official G’Day USA site describes the Hollywood Ashes Twenty20 match by saying:
This event will see Australian and English international cricket legends, celebrities and local players fight for the honour and glory of the Hollywood Ashes. These traditional rivals battle it out in an action packed 20/20 cricket match starting at 12 noon.
Steve Waugh, former professional cricketer and the one overseeing the event, notes that Dan Radcliffe may be the ‘dark horse’ in the match, saying: “I know Robbie Williams is a big soccer fan and I’m not sure about Jude Law, but I know Daniel Radcliffe loves his cricket so I’d say he’d be the danger man.”
I always thought you need to be Brittish to appreciate cricket, till i saw it played with much fire at Corfu, Greece.
funny Dan likes cricket, maybe that explain why he looked so at ease in those Quidditch costumes at the promoshoots for GoF…. the equipment was taken from cricket.
That would be so cool!!! We all know Dan loves cricket and Australia.
But it’s unlikely because he is filming HBP at the moment!
The thing that made me laugh about the pic is Jude Law’s face lol it’s hilarious.
It would be awesome to see Dan playing with all those actors and legend singers and cricket players!
But I can’t help noticing Leaky doesn’t usually post unconfirmed news, but you always post news about Dan before confirming them, that’s quite disrespectful for him.
I don’t know Doobah, Dan has to film almost everyday, and when he is not filming he has to be at the studios anyway doing other things related with the movie.
But I agree it would be great if they could give him this Monday free so he can travel there, play the game tomorrow and return in Monday maybe?
He deserves some free time too! And he loves to play cricket!
It would be awesome if is televised!
Daniel Radcliffe, Russell Crowe, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Jude Law, Robbie Williams, John Travolta, Kylie Minogue, Harrison Ford, Olivia Newton-John…
He can easily be in LA for a day. When I was at university in London, I flew back to LA for 2 days to throw my mom a birthday party. I didn’t even have to stay for 2 days, but I figured if I made the trip, I might as well stay the weekend and not just saturday.
I’d totally go if I knew a) whether or not Dan’ll really be there a b) if he’ll be meeting the fans. I already met him/talked to him for a few seconds at the LA premier but I KNEW they’d actually be talking to fans so…yeah. Anybody have any other info on that front?
I don’t know Ashley, since this is not even confirmed. But some cricket games can last DAYS!! So they can finish too exhausted! But I think this will be just one day, I can’t imagine Mick Jagger playing so long… althought his energy in concerts is still amazing!! :D
I guess it depends on security, if there is not much people and it is secure, Dan always spends time with fans. Like when he went to see a cricket match last summer, he signed autographs and talked with fans. ;)
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That sounds fantastic! It seems like a great event, and I hope we can get pictures. :D