Was Cricket In USA A Failure, As Nassau Gets Dismantled | First Sports With Rupha Ramani

Was Cricket In USA A Failure, As Nassau Gets Dismantled | First Sports With Rupha Ramani
Nassau county stadium that hosted eight matches at the T20 World Cup is getting dismantled. The venue that hosted the marquee clash India V Pakistan, will go back to its previous state. With New York games done, bulldozers removed the temporary stands. India V USA game was the last match in New York. Did ICC's American dream fail after controversies marred the USA matches? From expensive tickets to pitch controversies and security threat, did USA failed to embrace cricket as it should have? Rupha Ramani gives the verdict on Cricket in America.
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[@user-jz4lh8qg3l]

Two Major mistakes: First, Nassau County Eisenhower park is a 90 minute drive from New York City. For the vast majority of New York city residents this wasn't in New York it was in an outer suburb. Couple that with the high prices this wasn't a New York City event at all. Second, ICC completely dropped the ball on the media coverage. ESPN barely covered this. All the news coverage you are seeing is just local news and not National news. Barely any of the national channels even mentioned the matches.

[@quincysthillaire]

Not true!! Nassau stadium is at most an hour from the Bronx and Brooklyn and 30 mins from queens

[@user-jz4lh8qg3l]

@@quincysthillaire Neither Bronx nor Brooklyn is "the city". Manhattan is "the city".

[@deven_sh]

I completely agree that if the point of playing Cricket in USA was to promote it then it should have been all over local US news. It is sad the way ICC handled the US part. Could have kept the ticket prices lower.

[@logukarthe]

All these games are scheduled in New york are to show potential to local administration. In MLC, new york has its own team, who are obligated to build a stadium in new york. So this is to market the sport's potential to ask for real estate. As the county saw more than 100 million dollars in revenue, in just few weeks, they will listen to MLC teams. Also T20 has big ad potential with more than 100 10 sec ads, in 3.30 hrs, per match, this will be a darling for television networks.

[@ameynamjoshi741]

This is an absolutely poor take It's a proper hit, those low scoring new york matches were more thrilling than IPL

[@marathiboi96]

india pak almost gave me a heart attack, but it was a great match

[@njr3320]

It is a fact that most Americans are unaware of the existence of a global game called cricket.

[@riccorich]

We have other sports, especially NBA and MLB, Soccer Hockey

[@VikrantAttrish-yc7um]

Tell me you are a big sucker of cricket without telling me...

[@abhilashkuthe95]

What😅😅😅!!! Come out of this illusion that cricket is global game😂😂😂😂 From you got this data😂😂😂

[@sb5224]

@@abhilashkuthe95 Is MLB, NBA and American Football global games? Soccer is not popular in US either. Cricket has started investing in the US market now. Even if it gets 10% population playing it the revenue would be higher than revenue from England, Australia and New Zealand combined.

[@abbecks]

Global game ? 15 nations only

[@adi.singh0224]

It was a hit. Most of the games have been close and exciting to watch.

[@MrCaressme]

For cricket to gain any momentum in the US, it has to start early in their schools and colleges.

[@logukarthe]

It is already happening in Schools but not in all schools. If they are good enough they will get year round contracts via MLC teams. Since if They are good enough, once MLC is over in a month time, they can play other leagues throughout the year. Few American/several carribbean players are doing it already.

[@liverpoollad1271]

The main thing is Indians .. as soon as white people see Indians playing cricket here they loose interest . Maybe if it was English people doing it then it would be different but they are not invested into cricket

[@agosolsgaming4036]

thats not a cricket army of America , thats a cricket army of immigrants...........

[@WorldIsWierd]

Immigrants are American and we got the best ones 😂

[@savagepro9060]

Entire history of America is about IMMIGRANTS, from crossing the Bering Strait to Slave ships to Boeing 747s . . . and continuing!

[@THOMAS_SHELBY434]

Just like France is football army of immigrants.....

[@riccorich]

​@@WorldIsWierd😅sure I guess but nobody knows them lol😅

[@riccorich]

@nikhildhingra4368 no

[@AeonMusicRecord]

for anything to succeed you would need to fund it well for long periods of time. Can't expect to put a few drop in pitches and build a make shift stadium and succeed. This was not failure but a disaster

[@anandthepilot]

I for one loved the low scoring matches and genuinely thought the bolwers had very good impact unlike the dead pan pitches in India.

[@comtruise402]

“dead pan pitches in India”? ever heard of spin bowling lil bro? when did you start watching cricket? 18 hours ago?

[@looser7002]

USA has a good future in cricket

[@HenriHattar]

I think Indian comments are TOOOOOO Indian focused and miss the truth. For a casual observer, if there were a regular decent competition with big money on the line, within five years it would prosper.

[@ameynamjoshi741]

Not at all, you think cricket can spread over just a few days? Makes no sense It needs to be marketed well, money needs to be invested

[@HenriHattar]

@@ameynamjoshi741 Tha's WHAT regular means , dimwit! Fice years is not overnight either. Your brains are not exactly on fire are they.

[@sphatnani5213]

This is the first time cricket was introduced to US in big way. Businesses have seen the potential, US team looks great, so why hinder cricket. NHL is not popular in southern parts of US, still more teams also Florida has strong teams, when it is never winter there. If you can have NHL then you can also have cricket. Its could be sport for more newcommers and great way to bring all togather.

[@liverpoollad1271]

How excetly is that American team with not a single person born in USA ?? Do you expect Americans to support a team like that ?

[@sphatnani5213]

@@liverpoollad1271 it's already growing, so many leagues are there now, it's catching on

[@patrickt6540]

I,am very impressed by this reporter.You,are as good as Palki.

[@savagepro9060]

The history of United States cricket begins in the 18th century. The first game was between the USA and Canada and held in 1844 in front of an audience of 5,000 spectators in New York. Among early Americans, cricket was as popular a bat and ball game as baseball. This proves that cricket was played in America even BEFORE many countries in the British Commonwealth!

[@mageshwaran8457]

Those low scoring thrillers were good. These pitches are at least 120-130 pitches. Batsmen didn't bat well.

[@krisgopi_8]

Yes you are right, batsmen didn't apply themselves properly on this pitches. Due to excess ipl and flat pitches cricket batsmen has became impatience to deal with bowlers here.

[@kalpakkar]

On the contrary I believe the pitches have given the matches a fair chance of a good game. We are used to see 200-250 score with batsman hitting the bowlers all over the ground. There is hardly anything for the bowlers and it has become very boring. Having a good wicket for the bowlers really shows the character of a batsman and highlights the importance of skill rather than just hitting blindly

[@absolutelytrue-pi5vx]

Happy to see firstpost growth.👍👍

[@GeminiCAN]

We dont have to be too candid on attracting cricket to all American citizens..Cricket in US or Canada has enough desi support (and growing) but if non cricket ppl wants to adore cricket they are welcome. Cheers.

[@abps9947]

Both countries have increasing immigrants so

[@konadasoujaniya1880]

It’s a thumbs up 👍 It’s like Matches outside india. Aslways propability of weather problems. You cannot rule that out.

[@wolfmangoland7972]

The approval process for a new stadium is long - it'll at least be 2-3 years. Also, the cost of a permanent stadium would be at least 10 times (1,000 %) more than the temporary structure put by Nassau County.

[@THOMAS_SHELBY434]

no a proper international stadium take 5 years at least.

[@sharathgadasally2309]

Missed opportunities by not adding a venue on the west coast. Would have showcased the game a bit better in California. Los Angeles already has some great, professional pitches and weather is perfect for cricket. Some of the games on the east coast and in Dallas had empty stands. California has huge population into cricket and experience hosting major events.

[@ameynamjoshi741]

Stadium is important for having international matches, if crowds don't show up, what's the point of pitches

[@Honeykosare]

They didn't prepare pitch very well.. don't know if its lack of enthusiasm or lack of skill

[@ExplorerXyz-om6mz]

New york pitch is damn good.

[@rajeshranabhor]

How much did you make out $$$$$of it just showing the negative

[@abps9947]

About 30million Americans know about cricket at least know what the game is about Thanks to you tubers like jomboy

[@jobseeker1978]

How does it matter.....did you not generate interest in Cricket in USA?? Yes you did....this is only the beginning of the tournament and the US team has qualified based on their own skill.

[@jackshrimp]

I do not think including below par teams like Nepal, PNG, Oman etc in a World Cup makes no sense as some of these teams scoring 50, 60 etc does not enhance the sport

[@varunkasal8339]

They came through the qualification process and off course with their lack of experience playing against bigger teams, them scoring 50/60 is not a surprise. Afghanistan was like that too a few years ago and now they have skills and experience to beat best teams.

[@mogilir]

Doesn't the judgement depend on what the expectations were because it's perhaps more critical than appreciative of the goodness it brought. Major League funding and progress and formation of a viable USA team are two great successes. I am sure money was made by ICC as well as some of the hosting towns (sad for washed out games). It's easy to think that all that stadium could be saved but it's an expensive proposition that operational aspects involve and no one is going to Nassau county to play on a regular basis. Organic growth should come and to truly promote the game a lot of inclusive pregame day community activities, competitions, mock games mixed with baseball players, activities for school and college students, etc. should have been planned. Perhaps the best way to do that is by hosting a series between Team USA and other national teams than within the world cup agenda.

[@Patrick-o8k]

There was no tv coverage just a paywall. No ota tv coverage

[@batyngshainmajaw5598]

Just imagine having a super bowl or NBA being played in india..how do you think that'll turn up.?...

[@raghulrags]

All the wannabes will lineup and fill the stadium

[@batyngshainmajaw5598]

@@raghulrags exactly 💯

[@souravpaul2179]

Basketball will definitely be watched....basketball is loved here

[@blasttrash]

stadiums will have more people lining up than stadiums in US. thats for sure.

[@nadeekaliyanarathna8783]

​@@blasttrash😂😂😂😂😂😂Usa stadiums have more capacity than lot of indian stadiums.also all nfl stadiums are full .nfl average attendance is over 600,000.ipl average attendance is around 300k.lol 😂😂😂first fill indian stadiums kid.

[@rocketman.the3rd5]

This was a full-out success. It's good to keep the fan base of new Americans. It's unfortunate that this repoter has no idea there are tons of excricket fans in the US that lost interest from a lack of quality cricket. It's unfortunate that the color of your skin makes you American according to some.

[@souravpaul2179]

What is unfortunate is cricket has no takers in america abd harsh reality is it will fizzle out by next year and even from the world map in a decade

[@dawidmalan8727]

Let's forget the fact that USA beat Pakistan and it headlined ESPN

[@rajeshranabhor]

its hurricane season why have matches at that time in florida 🤔

[@ameynamjoshi741]

To knock pakistan out😂

[@romeosingh3004]

It was a failure!! Why dismantle the place after spending $30m to build it.

[@abps9947]

Because a new stadium is being built in New York for mlc

[@ajaynair2636]

US in fact hates cricket. It will never catch up. Most think its slow and really boring.

[@usngh05]

Cricket will truly be success only when school children will start playing across USA. Until then it will be popularity mostly migrants from English speaking countries. I have seen this happen with soccer during my almost 50 years living in the USA.

[@imacarguy4065]

The lack of stadiums is a hige issue. It would never grow if you don't hit up Cali!

[@abps9947]

There are 2 existing permanent stadium And new 5 more stadium are being constructed

[@somap8380]

Too much cricket; too much commercialism; choice and maturity on the part of audience will put cricket in its place, very soon.

[@gkcjakie002]

What a waste of money. Big failure

[@aravindvenkataramaiah8048]

Cricket is unpredictable, and the Nassau pitch made it more so. Poor neighbour Pakistan payed a heavy price! Americans change everything and make it their own way.

[@boscomunluo2178]

US wanted to make money not promote Cricket. 😂😂😂

[@nathanielmwangi6572]

Not a failure but it would have been great if the Major League Cricket league team of New York could have also played in Long Island so that new Cricket fans in New York could have a more accessible $$$ product

[@suniltantirige7781]

This was not a tournament to expand the game in North America. It was designed to grab maximum amount of money from a tiny, cricket-starved expat community. Many games start at 10 a.m. on weekdays, and ticket prices are out of this world. 99% of the general public have not heard of and have no interest in the game. The only interest was from the immigrant communities of Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, and a smattering of other cricket-playing nations. Even in the expat-communities, the 1st generation American/Canadian kids have very little interest in cricket, as they get massively exposed to Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey. Don't kid yourselves thinking that game will take hold among the general population. Not in the short term.

[@liverpoollad1271]

One only sensible answer. People really think that by Making a fake USA team full of x under 19 Indian players , it will generate interest of American people .. they don’t care . It’s just that bcci wanted to show we are very cool . Maybe to Indian people it might seem it’s very cool and etc but everyone in west knows the reality .. take euro cup as an example and now compare it with cricket World Cup

[@sunnygindian2263]

30 Million $$$ is peanuts to ICC compared to the T20 WC, This is how USA is, there is NO emotional attachment to it, at least not for now, because it is yet to be popular, Construction was makeshift in the first place according to you. So why cry now? Unless the MLC have international popular players in their league, it is not going to be that popular, it all boils down to money.

[@Kuttanaadan]

Yes, no doubt. Killed the 20/20 cricket

[@petergeorgelin6320]

Nice try , But as a Cricket Loving Fan I would call it a miss , If they were Fair Dinkum ( Yes I am an Aussie ) They should of had more games in the States ( Only 12 , I believe out of 55 Games ) , And No Super 8s or Finals Games , To me that's a little half hearted , I also don't have Pay TV ( Don't intend to ) And there has not been one game on free to air TV , So the only games I have seen are 30 second Highlights on the nightly News , Not good from my point of View if you are trying to promote the game.

[@hemantkm]

This channel has general tendency to blame USA and whatever they do. So something like this was expected. I live in the US and I know exactly what is going on in USA. There are many leagues and kids are now playing the sport at elementary and middle school level. We can say that in ten fifteen years USA will be a team like Australia, a force to reckon with. USA sporting events are all about the money and they definitely saw the potential of cricket to bring in the big money. They are going to overspend any country on building cricket sporting infrastructure and once kids get into it this you will see phenomenal athletes emerge because US has a huge sports culture. The games in Nassau county were quite enjoyable even with low scores and people who attended loved it. The facilities were not great due to it being temp but this is USA. You have all kinds of stuff outside the stadium to enjoy. I think the fans loved it. They think the games bought like over $150 million to the region. Americans were happy to get the little boost to their economy. They may not understand the fame that much but in time they will get it. Especially because it is better than baseball.

[@adventurousmumbaikar1949]

the pitch was Yucky

[@anishnagpal7857]

Palki ma'am she is not you, it may seem like and modulation may also seem like... However She is not Palkhi Sharma And it is never advisable to place your replica. Basically plz find some one else she is neither there nor your replica as is being projected

[@kushal120609]

My American colleagues know cricket as insects that make noise😢

[@varunkasal8339]

😂

[@syeduddin9010]

It's stupid of ICC. America didn't show any respect of the games. They treated the game as the last sport of the world. It's simple the 3rd class sports of the world.

[@abps9947]

Not really if you watch you tubers

[@liverpoollad1271]

@@abps9947😂😂😂😂 are you stupid ?? They just wanted to milk some Indian views and I guess they did and that’s all

[@misterrrperfect]

First off, don't rub the game on US eventhough they are not interested. US has other popular sports that they love it would never go to those levels. Also, as an Indian I felt boring watching as the batters struggled in NY stadium what a weird pitch it was.

[@sb5224]

Soccer is not popular in US either. Cricket has started investing in the US market now in really big way. Even if it gets 10% population playing it the revenue would be higher than revenue from England, Australia and New Zealand combined.

[@CBigsby]

Why do Indian anchor shout ! Anyways madam it is not pronounced as Nasau ! It’s called called NASA.

[@Seriously742]

USA cricket it’s all good 🇺🇸it got the market 🇹🇹

[@EvilKicksMoney]

Cricket is the greatest most entertaining sport in the world

[@Hadc577]

Cricket is declining in popularity rapidly, even in India

[@Hadc577]

Cricket is a dead sport outside the subcontinent; no one cares about it anymore.

[@Hadc577]

Cricket is the sport that is facing challenges when it comes to capturing the imaginations of young adults.

[@user-mw6vn5qu8w]

Everybody wins they got back there park

[@ranveersingh1834]

Don't worry cricket has bright future in America simple fact It has money and where there is money Americans defaultly will chase it .

[@Seriously742]

So True

[@abbecks]

It has money 😂 The richest cricketer ever is Sachin Tendulkar with a net worth of 190 million dollars. That's Ronaldos or even Messi or McGregor or LeBron James yearly earning 😂

[@ranveersingh1834]

@@abbecks bhai padh le jakr 10ve 12ve jiske bhi exams h voh de abhi bacha h tu tere cmnt hi bata raha h .

[@Seriously742]

@@abbecks IPL is the richest sport League it’s the shortest 🇹🇹

[@abps9947]

@@abbecks but no soccer league is in top 4

[@sagaradhikari7906]

Invest more in to Nepali cricket which is so promising rather !!

[@MusicAnimationwithBlender]

too much talking and little content/substance. Unfortunate. There IS a lot of substance that can be covered. Learn some reporting fundamentals guys :)

[@EvilKicksMoney]

Cricket is king of sports

[@Hadc577]

Cricket is dying sport

[@Hadc577]

Cricket is a dead sport outside the subcontinent; no one cares about it anymore.

[@zeexe1707]

Nope

[@anilkoshy2452]

South Asian immigrants playing and watching cricket in the USA cannot be termed as the popularity of cricket in the USA.

[@adventurousmumbaikar1949]

USA outsourcing cricket 😂😂😂

[@jothimsw]

Americans or western countries don’t have much audience for cricket compared to football, soccer, volleyball or even rugby… every country developed their own sports and master in that, only Indians have the mindset of following British and even after 70 years still following that….😂😂😂😂😂

[@liverpoollad1271]

And even britishers gave up on cricket like time back . Now it’s more like a old tradition rather then something competitive

[@balkrishvalaerobon5049]

India was cricketing with Green Card holder Indians .

[@liverpoollad1271]

Yeah and they wanted white Americans to show interest in it 😂

[@bolemankababu480]

Obviously it's failure 😂

[@mraza9]

Nus-sow county. LMAO.

[@waggafletcher]

Australia are world champions.

[@tenzinchoegyal4067]

99% Americans don’t even know what the cricket is

[@abps9947]

It's 30M American nationality who knows cricket

[@abps9947]

Ever heard of jomboy Surely it's not 99% Over exaggerate

[@riccorich]

​@@abps994730 m is small

[@sb5224]

Is MLB, NBA and American Football global games? Soccer is not popular in US either. Cricket has started investing in the US market only now in a real sense. Even if it gets 10% population playing it the revenue would be higher than revenue from England, Australia and New Zealand combined.

[@abps9947]

Neither is soccer

[@manazir12345]

She so negative

[@AV41979]

The lady couldn’t have got it anymore wrong about entertainment, close games trump any ball bashing. The cricket world cup in India doesn’t pull any crowd other than India games, nor the crowd appreciate the cricket played by opponent teams, Does it mean Worldcup to be only held in England where cricket matches of all nations attracts crowd. No it has to be held all around the world to attract new takers and also to inspire younger generation. The pitches so far has given a platform for all the minnows to put on a show and inspire their respective nations. Gosh not everything revolves around cricket economics.

[@sunnygindian2263]

Low scoring is also entertaining too, why does it have to be 100s and 20 6s and 50 4s. There were some huge to GINORMOUS UPSETS in this championship, thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@jacobkispotta43]

Americans don't need this lazy game. Indian - Americans need because they will not be able to play other than cricket. Americans are a sporting nation who are world class in track and field, soccer, basketball, tennis, boxing, rugby etc They lead in medal tally in olympics. Rather India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka etc who are mad after this lazy game cricket should work hard to develop other games in which they are zero.

[@shivathealmighty]

Infact it was a great success

[@OldMonk-tq6xd]

This ICC and BBCI is killing the game and has become greedy.. ICC and BCCI dumb heads..let cricket flourish

[@vizmouli]

IPL is boring. Just some idiots watching a tamasha where there is no even contest between bat and ball. Just have a bowling machine , why are bowlers even required in IPL.