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![]() I know that Americans are crazy for baseball and that is perhaps why cricket never could become popular there. However, the same was said about Soccer (the rest of world call it as football) but soccer is gradually becoming a mainstream sports in USA. Perhaps the main reason for the growing popularity of soccer is that is it extremely popular to the immigrant communities from Asia and Europe.
Cricket has the same potential too considering the fact that the number of immigrants from South Asia and the Caribbean islands is growing very fast.
When I was reading an article in India Daily, about the possibility of cricket becoming popular in USA at last, I felt that professional management is needed. Secondly, soccer in USA started to grow after USA hosted World Cup Football in 1994. Now the same is needed for cricket too. If USA can arrange world cup cricket then it would surely change the scenario to some extent.
We are still a long time away from the prospect of USA holding the world cup cricket. However, India is going to play some of its matches in USA in the coming years and that can help. I think that Pakistan and Bangladesh should also consider playing some of their home matches in USA.
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Yes 20-20 has better prospect and I am sure Americans will like it too but the first challenge is to engage the SOuth Asian community in USA.
At least they can better afford to stage an event such as the World Cup. Beleaguered caribbean states will hurt from the cost of this event for a long while, before realising any discernible long term gains from it. This is the first time I am glad that Cayman's cricket is still so underdeveloped that we are not recognised as a regional venue.
Though cricket in USA would take a longer time to come to international terms ,alot can be done to improve the cricket prospects . I would like to mention a point here that there is always talk around that India and Pakistan should play cricket in USA , how about hiring cricketeres from India n or the Pakistani origin.This way there would be better cricket players in USA playing on the professional basis because i think and have seen some really good talent in India .Being an Indian myself ,i have played cricket at the club level,i can say that it was much better than the cricket being played by national level cricketers in USA . Also if given a chance to display the talent that i have to play professional cricket in USA , i can display my talent . Also beside me there are many goood players of cricket who does not get a chance to play for India . In that case they can come down to USA and play saome really good cricket ,whoi knows a sachin might come good from USA also.
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US definitely has potential though there is still a long way to go.
Posted by: Pratyush | April 10, 2006 7:37 PM | Permalink to Comment