******Cricket Thread******

[ActonBlue]

Annoying that England have won a major world competition in front of 80K and it doesn't even warrant a headline on the BBC News front page.

 

[waspish]

American cricket could be huge if they want it to be! If they take it serious they could become one of the best teams in the world! Problem will be the amount of cricket the players teams will get..

 

[domalino]

Annoying that England have won a major world competition in front of 80K and it doesn't even warrant a headline on the BBC News front page.

It is literally the headline story on bbc sport?

 

[ActonBlue]

It is literally the headline story on bbc sport?

Yes, but not on the front page. It was even the headline story on the Sydney Morning Herald for a bit, FFS.

 

[crooky]

Yes, but not on the front page. It was even the headline story on the Sydney Morning Herald for a bit, FFS.

This is the site you want for Cricket news.

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Which is ironically, probably American owned..

 

[neel]

Depends on how much investment they put in and how many ringers they can get.

Also depends how much effort icc puts in to globalize the sport. Good news is they local leagues are quite popular, but an average American still knows cricket as insect than a sport.

 

[KS55]

American cricket could be huge if they want it to be! If they take it serious they could become one of the best teams in the world! Problem will be the amount of cricket the players teams will get..

In the late 19th and early 20th century, cricket was big in the US, mainly due to immigration from Britain. USA applied for test status, but MCC turned them down declaring test matches were for the British Empire only. Hence the growth then of baseball.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Also depends how much effort icc puts in to globalize the sport. Good news is they local leagues are quite popular, but an average American still knows cricket as insect than a sport.

Who knows what will happen after they rub knees with the elite teams?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

In the late 19th and early 20th century, cricket was big in the US, mainly due to immigration from Britain. USA applied for test status, but MCC turned them down declaring test matches were for the British Empire only. Hence the growth then of baseball.

Thank goodness they did. Imagine what the sport might have been had they been on the decision making committees?!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

In the late 19th and early 20th century, cricket was big in the US, mainly due to immigration from Britain. USA applied for test status, but MCC turned them down declaring test matches were for the British Empire only. Hence the growth then of baseball.

International cricket existed in North America 33 years before anywhere else. USA v Canada.