Will Americans ever love cricket?
Maybe it’s all the weird terms like bowling a maiden over or being out for a golden duck that puts them off, or maybe it’s because the game can admittedly be a bit slow and go on for as long as five days, but Americans have never been much interested in cricket.
Until now?
New York, a city famously addicted to the baseball rivalry between fans of the Yankees and the Mets, this spring became the first U.S. school district to introduce cricket as a sport in public high schools.
For now, most of the players in the New York City cricket league come from cricketing nations like the West Indies, Pakistan or India but there are signs of more American teenagers taking an interest.
Will it — could it — ever catch on in America? Or is there something basically alien about the game to Americans? (Oh, and here are the rules)
