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If you life in England do you say your English or British ?

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SW-User
Normally British. Although when cricket or especially rugby is involved clearly I'm then English.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@SW-User Although curiously, Welsh and Scottish cricketers are qualified to play for England. And even more curiously, the captain of the English one-day team is Irish.
SW-User
@MartinII it is a combined England and Wales cricket team but not Scotland. Scottish players have their own team.

However for that and rugby etc many qualify on residency grounds. Archer the fast bowler is West Indian by birth, Dylan Hartley is a Kiwi, as is Ben Stokes, Brad Barritt from South Africa. It shows how England has been somewhere that welcomes immigrants and how they can succeed here.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@SW-User I think I’m right in saying that Scots can still choose to play for England. That certainly used to be the case, and of course for Irish players too. But that’s by the way. The curious point in the context of this thread is that the team is called England!