As the U.S. prepares to host its first cricket World Cup next month, a temporary stadium is rising in the New York City suburbs
A sign advertises the Cricket World Cup matches in East Meadow, N.Y., Wednesday, May 8, 2024. As the U.S. prepares to host its first Cricket World Cup across three states next month, a temporary stadium is rising in the NYC suburbs where the English sport has found fertile ground among waves of Caribbean and South Asian immigration.
Parmanand Sarju, founder of the Long Island Youth Cricket Academy that hosted Saturday’s practice, said he's “beyond joyful” to see the new stadium rising atop the ball field where his youth academy began, a sign of how far things have come. Major League Cricket launched last year in the U.S. with six professional T20 teams, including a New York franchise that, for now, plays some games at a Dallas-area stadium also hosting World Cup matches.
“Cricket is predominantly viewed as an expat sport, but things will look very different in the next 10, 20 years,” said Pisike. “Americans will definitely change their mindset and approach in terms of developing cricket.” Other matches in the 55-game, 20-nation tournament that kicks off June 1 will be played on existing cricket fields in Texas and Florida. Later rounds take place in Antigua, Trinidad and other Caribbean nations, with the final in Barbados on June 29.The sport was played by American troops during the Revolutionary War, and the first international match was held in Manhattan between the city’s St.
Anubhav Chopra, a co-founder of the Long Island Premier League, a nearly 15-year-old men’s league that plays in another local park, is among the more than 700,000 Indian Americans in the New York City area — by far the largest community of its kind in the country.
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