Cricket in America part 2

[@gomathirani]

20-20 is the only format that can help the game to be global, not only America, but also non-cricketing nations

[@grayscarab5784]

True but there are only about 50 non-cricketing nations, it is played in 150 countries but 99.9% are absolutely useless.

[@AlonsoRules]

T20 is not real cricket, its just slog and giggle. Test Cricket is real cricket but only 12 countries play it. Of those 12, many of them lose by an innings to the top 4 or 5.

[@grayscarab5784]

@@AlonsoRules Not exactly true, many other countries "play" test cricket just not against other countries since you have to be chosen by the ICC to be a test playing nation. They would play test if they were allowed to.

[@TheFlyingExperience]

America will fall in love with 20/20 cricket.

[@drdetroitcity]

seatgurus Yes; I agree there, but I still think professionalism is 15 to 20 yrs away ... that's assuming you can start generating interest over the next yr or two. Do u think you can achieve that in USA?

[@drdetroitcity]

seatgurus I mean, they say you do not even have soccer crowds there coming to games ... so I think cricket will be further away again than soccer

[@user-gs8mv6ny3k]

If the USA were to take up football (not American Football) or cricket, it would allow them to play international sport, something that is generally denied to fans from the US. Knowing the joy and despair of international support would be an interesting experience for them.

[@aagilly]

cricket is the best sport ever. I miss Warnie.

[@PRAKASHAN-PK]

Cricket is the most beautiful game in the world.

[@magician1973]

All sports 😊☺️☺️☺️

[@rubiksharma5387]

Absolutely correct ji. This wonderfull game requires tremendous multiple skills, stemina, vission and reason and sharp mental strength. This glorious game replicates complex and unpredictable nature of life. Life goes through multipal facets like the ups and downs in the game of cricket. As it is said,"form is temprary, class is permanent". Life and cricket share lot of similarities in terms of form class.

[@proudindian3697]

don't worry Indian Americans will make USA qualify for world cup

[@riggerize]

I honestly truly believe 20-20 in America can catch on. Loads of people actually do not like baseball in America because it is considered slow with little action. 20-20 cricket is really action-packed with batters hitting big shots, fielders diving all over the place. I think they should forget about test and one day cricket and only promote 20-20. It really could catch on.

[@ruhrrhine6685]

IPL in USA would be great

[@0zzyninja]

Dude, did you not hear? America does have a history of cricket. As an Australian, I think it's great that these guys are trying something new. Cricket isn't even an original Australian sport. Get off your high horse. You don't hear them complaining about Australians playing baseball, etc.

[@Sammy58328]

Don't care about history. Genoa CFC and AC Milan used to be cricket clubs as well but now they put their 100% on football (sorry they call it Soccer). USA have leagues that half of the world don't play(e.g. Baseball, Ice-Hockey, American Football, Lacrosse etc.). Half of the world don't play cricket. So I think Cricket suits them very well. :)

[@riggerize]

I disagree. I think 20-20 cricket has a chance in America but not the longer versions. 20-20 cricket lasts about the length of a baseball game but is more action-packed in terms of hitting. Pitchers dictate baseball whereas 20-20 batters tend to, but at the same time good bowlers can have a say.

[@dreamflasher00]

TEST CRICKET ...is the best thing to watch ......sometimes.. its the test of one's nerves,..one's temperament..one's ability...one's patience...one's skill... Yes..yes...it goes on for 5 days...but many a times...the last two days are amazing...U will be biting nails for a whole day.. I agree...that one day and the T20 format...seem more fun..due to the twists and turns that happen every few minutes... Anyways...I love this Game !!!

[@goofydraws]

The television market isn't as big as you think. NBA and NHL all finish June-ish and the NFL late Feb. So you have a three month period of June-Late August to bust out a 2 and a 1/2 month season. So it is a possibility that something like the IPL could be happening in the USA by mid to late 2010-12.

[@Arka2011]

twenty20 is certainly the format cricket should be tried there. the things needed to promote cricket in the US: 1. go to the school levels and train kids from their childhood. 2. take international players like sehwag, gayle, warner to play exhibition matches there. 3. try to form some domestic twenty20 leagues. 4. try to get success of the USA cricket team in international level.

[@santhoshkumarraju2000]

I think Fort Lauderdale stadium has become into a success. If you don't know...I'm from the future...Previous year India played against West Indies in a T20 match. A dude named Evin Lewis from the West Indies scored a century which is hundred runs. Hundred runs by a single player is a rare occurance in T20 cricket.

[@daveluckett2188]

20-20 can work as an introduction. Americans who like a game with more tactical depth - and there are plenty, as American football attests - can graduate to the two-innings game. But you have to get their attention.

[@Hammster69official]

Well... just about every opinion piece I've read seems to indicate that cricket could develop well here, if only the USACA didn't keep getting in the way.

[@indyfan22k]

Project 15 is going too slow. here its is mid 2013 and only 1 cricket stadium and no league with little advertising or news. so what went wrong?

[@barcalonasucks16]

Idk..maybe. Would be a nice experiment. Teach Aroldis Chapman how to bowl and a top cricket player how to pitch. Just dont see cricket growing in america though. There is too much competition from american football, soccer, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, laccrose, and so on.

[@ManishKumar-vh8wk]

ARRANGE A T20 MATCH BETWEEN INDIA &USA

[@AnK11Morrison]

India under 19 and USA is a more close competition.

[@socioprat4402]

@@AnK11Morrison u16 now

[@nnnnnn496]

@@socioprat4402 Cricket runs in the blood of Indians. Gully players will be enough tbh. Even amateur players are high level in India.

[@beeDUB75]

ah.....golf people..... over a number of days..... the US LOVE golf. They could love cricket too

[@zacharylee90]

I'm probably going against the grain here, but I think Test Cricket, the truest form, is what we need to be bringing here to America. Twenty20 to the youth, yes, but as far as professional clubs, I think America can handle Test Cricket. Yes, it takes four days, but so does every single golf tournament and golf does well here in the States. Twenty20 can be introduced as the "casual" version or school version, but we need to be bringing in professional Test Cricket. I think we will warm up to it.

[@bravesgrizzliesdolphinsfan]

I think that the best form of cricket to make Americans watch and play is T20 cricket because it is only 3 hours like a baseball and an American football game. If Americans watch ODI cricket or test cricket, it would be too long and people would be really demanded to get a result in one day.

[@88BNDT]

i agree with you in most ways but i think 50 50 cricket would be the best to introduce and then the 5 day form once cricket has a standing in the US.

[@MrJm323]

Would cricket benefit from allying itself with Aussie Rules football in the U.S.? After all, they both use the same pitches (playing fields). Aussie Rules football was designed to be played on cricket pitches. The fans and developers of Aussie Rules can help pay for the construction and maintenance of the needed facilities. The two sports could grow together.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

MrJm323 good idea.

[@vkitet]

Truth is in the US, no person born in the US, ever plays cricket. The sport is only limited to immigrants from the subcontinent and a few carribbeans. Even the leading sporting bodies are not governed by the Govt and function as independant organizations. Promoting cricket in US is next to impossible as already NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB are too big and now soccer is coming uo big and fast.

[@hijtohema]

Current state: USA failed to qualify for the T20 World Championship 2016 Relegated to 2016 World Cricket League division four USA Cricket Association's ICC membership suspended due to "signigficant concerns about the governance, finance, reputation and cricketing activities of USACA" (june 2015)

[@xyz2121]

If American's have any interest in cricket (which most don't), it will only be in how much money they can make out of it. Once it becomes apparent it isn't a money-making proposition, all interest in it will evaporate.

[@Khan12078]

T-20 Is a start and once that gets going America cant start focusing on the real test of skill in cricket by playing TEST cricket followed by ODI cricket.

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

So the first cricket game was between two countries that just 30 years prior were at war with each other?

[@DarrenStortz]

it drew me in

[@khemrajpanaram1529]

I though my career is over because i move to new york but it just began

[@Vedrajrm]

4:05 well the internet penetration fact didn’t quite hold up

[@barcalonasucks16]

@Marcus8737 The same for cricket players who would face steven strasburg who throws 102 mph

[@indyfan22k]

500,000 to 1 million to 2 million viewers in the usa would be a worthy goal.

[@enthusiasticdreamer6508]

Make a Hollywood movie on Chrys Gayle...

[@karnubawax]

Poor Don Lockerbie. He was a man of vision, who thought big, and wanted to see cricket explode in the USA. And for this he was fired. Cricket in the USA will NEVER happen as long as it's under the thumb of the abominable USACA. If cricket ever becomes anything in the USA, it will be IN SPITE of the USACA and not because of it.

[@liausdhfsdgfgf]

The thing that is REALLY going to promote Cricket in america is the prestige and history related to american cricket. people need to know who Bart King was.. why george washington liked cricket? why philadelphia is so special about cricket..? if people get to know these things i think it wont be a problem for the americans to make a first class test cricekt team.

[@indyfan22k]

who replaced him and what has he done in the last 2 years+ to make things better?

[@indyfan22k]

the USA has room for more sports if there are governments, corporate sponsors, and media willing to spread the word and make room for it.

[@xyz2121]

So 8 1/2 years later where are they?

[@as6961]

10 or atleast 5 over's cricket should be in the olympic.......

[@goofydraws]

2010-20

[@mdhabib4673]

ICC is doing nothing to globalize cricket

[@tomtubeboob]

play the IPL over in america to help promote it! all the big hitters like gayle, warner, pieterson and AB will get people rallied!

[@thatman64]

She really thinks Chicago and New york are the best markets for cricket? As an Englishman, I'd refer to those places as the Meccas of Baseball... Like hell will they adopt cricket.

[@GAURAV1140]

eyyyyyyyyyyeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.....hahahahahahah...@05:18

[@CxSteamPunKxD]

lol that guy in shades looks like Morpheus.

[@hamzaringwala4759]

would love to see usa in world cups

[@ankush3707]

cricket is a kind of game which keeps u hooked up those shots plays by abd jos buttler a perfect cover drive by virat kohli there is nothing better than that i think american football baseball will become boring once cricket is spread out

[@tusharsaxena3981]

7:21 we Americans love high scoring. Yes we all know that😂😂😂😂

[@gv1gv297]

test cricket is supremw format l

[@DarrenStortz]

the suit is wrong, follow IPL's example, and 20twenty in America would be colorful enough

[@indyfan22k]

and Corporate Sponsors. that's what is missing now. without that you can't marketing, advertise the game well to Immigrants to wealthy white americans, middle class americans etc.

[@AdityaSingh-ol3vb]

US can qualify for world cup 2027 not in 2023 india.because the top 10 teams in odi rankings has already qualify for 2023 cwc.

[@huepix]

I think the usa should have a tour of retired english players hamming it up. Play some 20/20 exhibition style games with lots of colonialist overtones. Hype it up a bit and orchestrate a usa series win.

[@indyfan22k]

come on, that's where the Asian and Caribbean immigrants are.

[@zealzest9130]

Pakistan has presented t10 also which is faster than t20

[@kkb474]

Then cricket sphere would be minuscule, And then it would have died out by gradually loosing importance & support.

[@jecos1966]

You need big fat Promotion $$$$$$

[@noor37130]

Cricket would never be able to compete with football or basketball or American football in usa, the sport is just too slow and boring! Once and English friend of mine told me "he would rather watch paint dry than watch cricket". That says a lot by those who actually made the sport;ENGLAND.

[@noor37130]

surojit chatterjee intelligent enough? You mean too fast Asians are naturally not fast enough to play fast games lile basketball, football or American football, so my friend you are better of playing slow cricket.

[@noor37130]

surojit chatterjee i never said anything about baseball, mate...that is a boring sport as well ok, fair enough, you say t20 cricekt is better fine, i watched couple of videos on cricket after our previous conversation i noticed that cricket is far more favored towards batsmen than "bowlers",.. and the pitchs are spin-friendly, batting friendly (what ever that means, in technical terms). but i can make out that is basied towards one party ..

[@marblestudios2017]

+surojit chatterjee fuck off all football fans cricket is my life.

[@marblestudios2017]

+surojit chatterjee the game of football is full of racism the audience are so mad that they fight and even kill each other on the other hand cricket is a gentlemen's game and audience/fans do not fight each other like fucking football

[@noor37130]

YUSUF GAMER ultimate thats because there are hardly any fans in the statuim

[@Gr33kshuffler]

lmao Americans playing cricket...

[@abulkalam-nk5kl]

দর্শক.কম

[@1KevinsFamousChili1]

So the first cricket game was between two countries that just 30 years prior were at war with each other?