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Cricket in the USA? Not as outlandish as Americans would like people to believe
Posted on 10/28/15 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 10/28/15 at 1:32 pm
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The All-Stars series scheduled in New York, Houston and Los Angeles next month is cricket's latest attempt to endear itself to Americans. It's unlikely that the matches, featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Brian Lara, Jacques Kallis, Muttiah Muralitharan and others, will prompt American sports fans to drop their baseball bats, footballs, basketballs, ice hockey sticks and pick up our beautiful willows, but that doesn't mean cricket doesn't have a presence in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In a photograph from 1861, cricket and baseball share space in a field at Princeton University:
In this photo, taken in 2013, Shaq takes part in a cricket promotion in Sacramento:
British tourists play an exhibition match in St Louis, Missouri in 1965:
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Posted on 10/28/15 at 1:33 pm to stendulkar
lol
Posted on 10/28/15 at 1:33 pm to stendulkar
Finally, a sport that soccer is more popular than in the US
Posted on 10/28/15 at 1:35 pm to stendulkar
People are barely starting to notice soccer, the most popular sport in the world....til outlandish to think cricket would be able to get a foothold.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 2:17 pm to stendulkar
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Cricket in the USA? Not as outlandish as Americans would like people to believe
It's ludicrous.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 2:18 pm to stendulkar
quote:Aren't Americans the ones who decide?
Cricket in the USA? Not as outlandish as Americans would like people to believe
Posted on 10/28/15 at 2:22 pm to genro
Days of slow play, obscure scoring methodologies, and mostly foreign players?
Still a better alternative than soccer.
Still a better alternative than soccer.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:20 pm to stendulkar
Not catching on. Its American spiritual successor (baseball) bores people enough.
This post was edited on 10/28/15 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:28 pm to stendulkar
Isn't a crickett game keeping the astros from removing that stupid hill this year?
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:30 pm to piggidyphish
nobody understands this dumbass game.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:41 pm to stendulkar
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Cricket in the USA? Not as outlandish as Americans would like people to believe
It's pretty ridiculous.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 4:52 pm to stendulkar
Baseball is dying, and you think people will want to watch an even slower, even more boring, and even less athletic version of it?
Posted on 10/28/15 at 5:02 pm to genro
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Aren't Americans the ones who decide?
This
If we don't want it to catch on then it won't.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 5:19 pm to stendulkar
I was interested until I saw it would cost more than an MLB playoff ticket at MMP.
Posted on 10/28/15 at 5:29 pm to stendulkar
There are only two places on the planet that give a frick about cricket: the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean.
Give up on the sport that even the English have given up on.
Give up on the sport that even the English have given up on.
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