Exploring cricket's roots in the United States, and why the future could be bright for the sport heading into the men's T20 World Cup.
The men's T20 World Cup is being hosted by the USA and West Indies, and kicks off on Sunday morning . Here, BBC Sport looks back at the storied history of cricket in the USA.
By then, a civil war had swept away the roots of the game in the place that had actually staged the first international: the United States of America. He appeared at the ground 20 minutes after the final wicket had fallen and began a heated row with the Canadians over whether the game should restart so that he could bat. Canada stood firm: they had won by 23 runs.They met again home and away the following year, Canada winning both, before the USA took victory at a game in Harlem in 1846 amid such bad feeling that the fixture was not contested for another seven years.
A version known as ‘wicket’ was widespread enough to count George Washington as a participant in at least one game according to the journal of a Valley Forge soldier called George Ewing. The geography of cricket became the geography of empire: the Indian sub-continent, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies and South Africa all shared that dubious colonial root. In turn, their admissions to international cricket and subsequent first victories over the ‘mother country’ of England came freighted with meaning.Dwight Eisenhower attended a game in Karachi. Donald Trump tried – and failed – to pronounce the names of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli during a visit to India.
The Indian Premier League, the form’s ultimate iteration, is packed with globetrotting players and sprinkled with Bollywood stardust. Each of its 74 games are worth £10.5m, a figure that puts it behind only the NFL and the Premier League in per-match value.Cricket has sought its tipping point since the USA’s admission as an associate member of the ICC in 1965, but its history has been one of mismanagement and maladministration. In the local vernacular, it has all been a bit small time.
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