Vigoro
Vigoro is a ball sport ( batball game ). It was presented in 1908 by the Englishman John George Grant in Australia , initially without much success . It was only when Grant returned to the fifth continent ten years later that his game found a large community of interests among the female school leavers in Sydney. The first Vigoro Association was founded just one year later. Vigoro is still played in parts of Australia today, particularly Queensland .
The game is similar to cricket . The clubs are more reminiscent of canoe paddles . A team consists of 11 players. The two throwers per team ( bowlers ) take turns throwing balls of different colors (white and red), unlike in cricket, only from one side of the playing field. With a few, but serious rule changes, Vigoro is a considerably faster game than cricket.
The teams from the states of Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania take part in the All Australian Championships in four age and performance classes (state 1, state 2, state juniors, state veterans) .
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- Marcus Rosenstein: The Ball Sports Lexicon. The ball and ball games of the world , Berlin (Weinmann), 1997. ISBN 3-87892-062-8