It was once the most popular sport in America, but can the T20 World Cup push cricket to the forefront of US sport?
Former Test spinner and long time Texas resident Tim May excited by USA cricket.Shane Warne’s one-time spin twin Tim May was shocked when he walked into a Texas bar and saw cricket on the big screen.
“Boom, the majority of people are into it,” May said. “Many haven’t any idea what’s going on. They don’t understand, it’s so complicated for them. But they’re into it.” A quick explainer below the main article offered a superficial guide of why cricket is not baseball, and quoted Trinidadian Marxist thinker C. L. R. James, who wrote in his 1963 cricket memoir: “Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.”
But cricket hung on, with Don Bradman using a private 1932 tour of the United States and Canada for his honeymoon.The Australians also played against a Hollywood team captained by former England Test cricketer-turned-actor Sir Charles Aubrey Smith that included Boris Karloff of, backed by wealthy entrepreneurs of largely Indian heritage, was launched.
“And our belief was that this would pay off over the years, the quality of the US cricket team would go up. Now, what has been a pleasant surprise for us is how quickly that has happened.”The International Cricket Council has been delighted with the response in the US, headlined by more than 200,000 people attending the matches, including three crowds of more than 30,000 for India’s games at the now disassembled 34,000 seat pop-up stadium on New York’s Long Island.
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