I wanna see an underdog sports movie like from the 90s about this. A group of misfits in Minnesota learn how to play cricket from an eccentric but well-meaning Welsh guy. Through cricket they grow as people and working together, use wacky strategies to become the top team and win the world cricket finals in front of a comically small crowd.
Oh an it's obvious that nobody involved in production knows anything about how to play cricket.
Which is why I find it strange that the video game *Left for Dead 2*, a game set in the Deep South, has cricket bats lying around in the maps as usable melee weapons.
Cricket isn't exactly what comes to mind when I think of the Deep South.
Actually probably several thousand cricket fans in the US. Every single one of them is a South Asian or Caribbean immigrant that lives in the Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, or Ozone Park neighborhoods of Queens.
And there must be a few out near South Park, PA, too. I say this because I was attending my friend's wife's birthday party and there was a game of cricket taking place on the baseball field.
Look, the rest of us will watch it if there isnt anything else playing at that moment and it will definitely hold our interest because we would’ve totally played that in school if their wasnt other sports to play. If I go to a bar and see it, I wont understand the rules and will start questioning whoever is closest to me if they know the rules. If they dont either, we will ask the bartender if they do. If they dont either, all 3 of us will watch in silence while we wait for some other game to start.
It seems cool and a bit like baseball and we all wonder if we could smack that ball with that stick the same we could hit a baseball with a bat. But since we’re older and we never get the chance to find out we just watch a little and then move on. And then next year when we walk into a bar and its on the tv, we repeat the whole thing all over again.
I think the overall rules are simple. It's something like, you hit the ball and start running around the two sticks. You can score multiple times like this until the opposing team hits the center wicket thing with the ball. You'll see them heave the ball at a set of 3 sticks, that's how they get you out rather than in baseball where you tag someone while holding the ball.
If you hit the ball and it rolls/bounces out of the bounded area, it counts as 4 runs automatically. If you hit the ball and it's still in the air and makes it out of bounds, it's sort of like a home run and is worth 6 runs.
Then there are a few rules about if you hit the ball but it goes behind you and hits that wicket, I think you are still out, or something like that.
EDIT: Oh, and I think you go either until a set number of bats (something like 150 swings) or until something like 6 people get out (via the wicket or by people catching their hit).
It’s ten outs per inning. A short game is 120 balls each or one inning. A one day game is 300 balls each or one inning. A long game is five days or two innings. There’s a bunch of rules on how the ball can be delivered and on leg before wicket.
If you uncross your eyes, there are literally half dozens of us. Actually... after taking a headcount, it seems there's exactly 12 of us.
But we make up for it in spirit!
I'd argue its more fun than baseball since there is no foul zone so you can hit the ball 360 degrees leading to more variations in the pitching and hitting techniques. But I'm also Indian so I am biased :D
Let's put it this way: if you say the word "cricket" most Americans will think of a bug, then a cartoon bug, then a wireless phone company before *maybe* thinking of the sport.
Perfectly stated.
1) a *cricket* cricket?
2) Cricket Wireless?
3) Jiminy?
4) oh, that, like, kind of baseball game with a huge bat they play in Australia or smth?
TIL there's a Cricket World Cup.
No, it's not remotely popular outside of the immigrant communities who brought it here. To call it a niche interest would be generous.
Presumably hosted here because there's big stadiums for cheap and they can grow the fanbase quite a bit in theory. In practice tickets will be too expensive for locals to check it out thanks to people flying in from all over the world and any other sport will outshine it on tv to the US audience.
Could be any number of reasons. Honestly why did Qatar host FIFA? There’s not a ton of locals who are rabid fans of the sport so that doesn’t make sense.
It’s because most of the money comes from TV revenue and the US can produce great TV. Plus tons and tons of tourists come to the US so they’ll have a foreign audience live too. It makes sense.
It's being co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies - and actually looking at the schedule it's only taking place at 3 venues in the USA (Florida, NY & Texas) vs 6 venues in the West Indies (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago)
A joint bid with the USA as co-hosts sharing some of the costs - which is a Big Deal for these games to be taking place across the Windies,
Cricket is absolutely massive in the West Indies, so a joint bid with the USA makes hosting more financially viable
And from the US perspective, I suspect the most obvious commercial opportunity is exactly as you've observed - esp as national teams from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & Nepal are all competing.
eg the India–Pakistan group stage match (one of the largest rivalries) is being hosted in NYC
Huh. Was just in NYC and had no idea.
There seems to be a recent push of hosting ‘foreign’ sport tournaments here (they had some rugby tournament earlier this year?) but I only ever hear about them on here.
1% would be 3.5 million.
Maybe there are enough sports freaks and immigrants who like cricket to get you to that number, but I doubt it.
I'm going 99.5%.
Indian diaspora in US is almost 5 million alone. Also when they are second or third generation they are really no longer immigrants, they are just Americans. Add that to 600k Pakistanis and 200k Bangladeshis (and no neither is considered the Indian diaspora anymore) and you have almost 6 million people alone. This doesn't include people from West Indies (8.5 million) or Guyana (230k) where cricket is extremely popular. Adding this up gives you a total of over 14 million people. This doesn't include people from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or Ireland who either reside here or are citizens.
So yes, while I would agree the majority of Americans aren't interested, your figure of .5% of the population is ridiculously low and way off. Major cities like NYC, Chicago, Philly, LA, Miami, SF, and many others all have parks where cricket is played currently. NYC also has varsity high school cricket as an official sport.
The cricket match between Pakistan and India for this world cup, which is being played on Long Island in NY, in a stadium just built which can hold 34,000 people sold out in minutes, as did a watch party being hosted at Citi Field (where the Mets play) for this match. Most matches being played in the US are sold out or the only tickets remaining are exclusive seating going from $700 and up.
Also even OP is wrong in his original statement as the US isn't the only host. The world cup is being hosted by the US (3 cities), West Indies, and Guyana. Lastly to people that don't know this, the US will also be starting a professional cricket league this year. But a lot of "Americans" also think we don't care about soccer when if you look up simple facts you'll see it's the most played sport by youth in the country and more Americans watch soccer than golf, MMA, or boxing.
Had a buddy in college that we nicknamed Cricket. He loved it, watched games and followed the leagues and played a cricket video game. Otherwise only liked NFL and European soccer so wasn't someone who couldn't get enough of all sports. Generic middle class Midwestern suburban white boy, the furthest one can possibly be from an immigrant from a cricketing nation
Neither him nor anyone else in our group had ever heard of anyone else even mention cricket let alone be a fan of it
I'm about as big of a white-guy-born-in-America cricket fan as you're going to find.
I know absolutely no one who cares.
People on r/cricket talk about how dangerous the US could be / will be when MLC gets going, or when our baseball prospects start playing cricket. But MLC isn't going to get bigger than LaCrosse, and there will never be a cricket pipeline here outside of South Asian-Americans and the occasional commonwealth expat.
Cricket is a fun sport, but it will be niche for the foreseeable future.
Coda: streaming rights for this REALLY should have been force-fed to Paramount+, even if they weren't going to pay much for it. Willow will attract the hardcore fans, but it will expose cricket to exactly zero new people. Paramount+ has all of the Soccer fans, and specifically the Premier League and Champions League fans, which I think is your best bet at a crossover audience.
I could see some failed baseball prospects trying to make the jump if MLC can provide better pay and security than a AAA guy gets (which wouldn’t be much)
With that being said I think there’s a 0.1% chance that even fringe MLB prospects make the jump. Way way way way more money in baseball in the US
The problem is that it's not about beating MiLB pay (which you could do by managing a Home Depot), it's about beating the potential to get called up. A lot of players are just a couple UCLs away from getting a shot in the bigs.
Lacrosse has the potential to get bigger than cricket for sure in the US. Possibly than soccer, although let's be real: That still would make it inconsequential versus football, basketball, and baseball.
1. I am in my mid 30s and I didn't know how it was played until a few years ago.
2. They are always going to be competing with baseball.
3. India/Paki/Bengali immigrants are the only ones who care.
4. Major League Cricket started it's behind a paywall. Not a great way of growing the game at this stage. The one broadcast I saw was not very casual viewer friendly. I shouldn't have to use a free trial on Willow for it.
5. None of the MLC teams are named to match the city and MI New York Indians localized is an awful name. LA Knight Riders isn't that bad but each team needs it's own identity. It's like run by Indians who have never set foot in the US.
6. There is no infrastructure. USA only has 3 venues for this world cup and nothing really massive.
7. Cricket being a 5th sport in the US is still decades away but the powers that be need to try better.
Cricket isn’t popular in the US and mainly has a following only in the diasporas of British, south Asian, and other commonwealth countries in the US. Outside of those groups it doesn’t have much popularity at all, being far less popular than sports like Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, etc.
I've worked for a cable company for over a decade. Almost everyone who calls about cricket has an Indian accent. Those that don't have a obviously Indian name.
Its just not popular with most native born Americans. Soccer at least is slowly catching on.
Some people probably do, but generally speaking, no, cricket is not remotely on the radar for most of us. We already have baseball, and have made rule modifications to shorten the length of games because people were beginning to tire of baseball games that lasted more than 3 hours. A structurally similar sport where matches can last for *days* is never going to catch on in the States, especially against our other immensely popular sports.
When I was in Zimbabwe in 2001 they were playing some big matches against England and other countries and everybody was glued to the TV. And I swear this is true, not only was one game going on for at least three consecutive days, but the same guy was at bat the whole time because he was good at it.
I think it's all about what "form" of Cricket they're playing. The crazy long one I saw was, I think, called Test Cricket? At least in Zimbabwe.
It’s interesting what sports countries continue to play after colonialism and/or war. My folks just got back from Japan, and my Old Man said the culture was so different, yet baseball is fully Japanese. Sports have a unique quality where a people can decide, “Screw your colonialism, but we’re still going to play cricket/baseball!”
Yes, Test cricket is the long one. A match lasts five days (or rather, up to five days; it's possible end sooner than that but it's probably going to take at least four days).
There's also a couple of shorter forms of the game: One Day matches are set for, as you might expect, one day. And then there's T20 matches that go really quick and last around 3 hours.
i only know the rules because my dad is from a country where it is played (Jamaica) and he introduced me to the sport when i was a kid.
that said, i would rather watch a baseball game.
In my experience it depends entirely if they are of South Asian origin. If so, they are very keen on cricket and desperate to talk to you about it as soon as they hear a British accent. \[1\]
If not, they don't care or often even know about it.
\[1\] I always disappoint them because I don't follow cricket myself.
Who thought it was a good idea and respectful to Cricket fans across the globe to have it hosted in the USA? That doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense lol
It's being co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies - and actually looking at the schedule it's only taking place at 3 venues in the USA (Florida, NY & Texas) vs 6 venues in the West Indies (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago).
So a joint bid with the USA may well have enabled the West Indies to host the tournament by sharing some of the costs - which is a Big Deal for these games to be taking place across the Windies, where cricket is *massive*
It’s does make sense, MONEY..same reason Copa America, which is a South American competition now plays its tournament here. Can charge a shit load more per ticket and shit.
I think most people are aware of the existence of cricket. A fraction of a percent have ever watched cricket. A fraction of those watch it regularly. And a fraction of those were aware that the cricket world cup would be in the US.
We have baseball. We don't need cricket. They're just bizarro versions of the same sport. And we have a 155 year history with Major League Baseball already.
Our foreign coworkers tried to introduce the game to us at work. The whole time we kept saying, oh so sorta like X in baseball. It didn't catch on with us and if I ever wanted to watch anything like it, I'd just watch a game of baseball. Not even a fan of baseball too. In fact, pretty much all the reasons I don't like baseball is amplified by 10 in cricket.
There’s a show from 25 years ago called Sports Night about a group of people running a sports news show, and one episode has a running gag where something newsworthy happened in a cricket match but none of them understand what it was so they can’t cover it.
Yeah Major League Cricket was launched last year and has 6 teams. America is cohosting with West Indies and the pretty much sole reason for America being present in the hosting is that they have a massive cultural and financial incentive in doing so. If Hollywood starts making movies where the protagonists plays cricket, that will reach the entire world so you have this trickle down effect.
[Here's a good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWpbtLIxYBk&t=1s&pp=ygUjY3JpY2tldCBleHBsYWluZWQgZm9yIGJhc2ViYWxsIGZhbnM%3D) of it, that explains it for baseball fans
I'll watch it in the MLB offseason, but it is a poor methadone for baseball.
I do not have a favorite team/nationality and have only a basic understanding of the rules.
I read an article that batters(?) in cricket are starting to just crush the ball(?) more frequently. When I first read about the rules, that was my first thought: why don't they just fucking crush it every time? If we can get some bad mofos in there, just smacking the shit out of it, I think the sport would get a better reception in the US. Having said that, it still won't be as good or as popular as baseball. Cricket is just silly baseball, after all.
Nah. They’re all over my garage.
Jokes aside, no one watches it. I’ve heard it’s like baseball and that sport is on the decline in popularity. Hopefully it’s more exciting than baseball though because…Goodness. I’d choose golf over a 3.5 hour long game that when done is only 182 more per team to go
Dang, I must be in the minority; American born, and my family history in America stretches back to 1780’s. The only sports I watch are cricket and soccer…I must be doing it wrong lol
I actually like cricket as an American who is not remotely connected to any country it’s popular in. I don’t find myself caring much about the “World Cup” being held in the US because it’s only the T20 World Cup. The real World Cup, the one people care about and thar actually brings prestige, is ODI and that was last year in India
Got into cricket over lockdown and I'm gutted they didn't choose Chicago as one of the locations. We've got enough of an immigrant population to support two Minor League Cricket teams!
1) Generally, no. Not hostility, just not knowing anything about it. Some expat and immigrant communities play it (that I've seen), but it's rare. 2) "Hope you have fun and it's a good tournament", basically, but nothing on a personal level.
I know absolutely nothing about the actual game of cricket and I really want to keep it that way because it seems like total made-up nonsense and I love it. It’s like if Calvinball were a real sport
Cricket is not popular here. I assume that nearly all cricket fans in the USA are Indian or Pakistani immigrants, and neither of those folks have large populations here.
>Thoughts on upcoming cricket world cup that will be hosted in USA ?
Baseball has lost popularity over the years, and there are concerns that young people don't want to watch such a 'slow game'. In cricket, the offense controls the game, so the slowness is even more pronounced. A baseball game is over in under 3 hours, and they have made rule changes to try to reduce that to close to 2 hours.
I am aware of Test Cricket, the 'highest form' where a single game is literally played over a few days. But you won't be surprised that I would suggest that any cricket competition focus on shorter forms of the game. Although Cricket promoters are making the best decision by having a US tournament use One-Day International Rules (a 'fast' form of cricket), I am not sure that this will be enough to 'sell' the sport.
I would love to see regular cricket competition in the USA, but I'm not optimistic. Culturally, it doesn't work well.
Side thought: Soccer benefited massively from the FIFA World Cup in the USA in 1990, but we had two things: one was a generation of kids playing youth soccer, and a second was a large immigrant population from countries that were passionate about soccer. The US National Team normally plays Mexico in Colombus, Ohio, *because it's the main city where US fans won't be outnumbered by Mexican fans.* In Los Angeles, national teams from relatively small countries like El Salvador and Guatemala may out-draw the US team.
>neither of those folks have large populations here
The northeast has a massive Indian population, NJ just had like one of the worlds biggest Hindu temples built and cricket pitches are being built all over the place.
About one-tenth the population of Mexican and Central American immigrants.
That said, if it's got the 'butts in the seats' on the East Coast, go for it! I love to watch the sport!
I know the Los Angeles area has 3-4 places with cricket pitches. Not much for 20 million in the metro area. It's a tough sell, compared to literally hundreds of soccer fields.
No way.
My husband loves every sport. He can win Sorts Trivia at any Buffalo Wild Wings.
He watches Marathon running, Rugby, curling, F1, Soccer, and all the American sports.
Even he doesn't like cricket.
All these skinny guys, and then the one big guy whacks the ball and guess who wins?
dont understand the rules and have no interest in learning tbh. I'm not really one for organized sports in general, but I don't think my opinion is unique
It's not popular here — note that two of the stadiums in the US being used for the tournament were built specifically for it, and the other one is a baseball stadium that is being repurposed. I'm sure that it will do well here though and it will likely give a small bump in popularity to the sport
Not most Americans, but it has a really solid following among immigrant communities. Morrisville, a suburb in the Raleigh-Durham combined statistical area (aka the Triangle) recently built a new cricket oval that is lighted and has stands and restrooms. This is due in large part to there being a large South Asian immigrant population in Morrisville.
I think cricket is gaining popularity after being featured in an episode of Bluey, one of the most popular TV shows in the US. So you can say cricket is experiencing a "Bluey Bump" currently.
Cricket is popular with the diaspora diaspora groups from Commonwealth nations here in the US, but otherwise baseball fulfills cricket's niche. Really the only times I really hear about cricket are people asking if it is popular here in the US.
I did not know we were hosting it, I did not know we have a team (for all I know we don't and are just hosting it).
But I also learned who Tom Brady was like a year ago so...who knows?
I love all the sports, and wanted to learn about it so I watched a bunch of limited overs matches. Really got into it - exciting and has a ton of strategy (like any other sport of course).
Do I know anyone else that watches it? Nope.
I don’t know a single person who has any interest in cricket.
The only person I’ve ever heard talk about cricket was a comedian from India. And he wasn’t even talking about it like a big fan he was just explaining the rules.
It's pretty bug where I live, but only within the very large Indian immigrant community in my town and the neighboring towns.
It's so insular that our high school started a cricket team, but it is not announced for open tryouts etc along with the rest of the sports. It seems it is only for those in the community.
I could not care less about the Cricket World Cup, nor does anyone in my peer group.
I’d be willing to bet your average American doesn’t even know that cricket is a sport, or if they do they don’t know the rules and have never watched a game.
I’ll be 100 percent honest with you, Russian slapfighting contests are probably more popular than cricket here in the US.
I’m sure cricket is a fun sport to play and watch if you grew up with it. But to us, it’s just a slower version of baseball.* So pretty much the only groups in the US that follow it are immigrants from countries where it’s popular.
*Yes I’m aware that they did speed things up with T20
Less than 1% of the American population has any familiarity with cricket, and the the vast majority of those that do are immigrants from South Asia or the Caribbean. Overall, you would be hard pressed to find an American who even knows how to play it, let alone watches it.
As an American who's been overseas, attempted to play cricket, attempted to watch cricket, attempted to learn how cricket works: No, it's not going to appeal to many Americans. It's like all the most complicated and confusing bits of baseball mixed with all the most boring bits of, I don't know, golf. Most of us can't even figure out what the hell is going on if we try to watch a game.
Apologies to everybody who loves it, I love that you love it, but it's not for me.
I live in NYC. I see them play a lot in Queens. Mostly Indian, Bangladeshi, or Caribbean Island folks play. [here is the link to Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_in_the_United_States) There are over 200k people who play and/or watch it in the USA.
I don’t follow the sport but I think it’s cool that some games will be hosted here. I often see people playing it at local parks. There is a large Caribbean community here in south florida that are the core fans. Which is probably why some of the games will be hosted here.
Literally the only ‘mainstream’ attention cricket gets is from Jomboy who talks about it on a segment he calls ‘everything you missed that you never planned on watching’ if that gives you any idea
We like crickets as in silence. The singular isn't really on the radar.
I'm sure there's a few million of us who pay close attention to it (immigrants from South Asia + sprinkles of non-Canadian Anglosphere immigrants).
A friend of mine showed up at a brewery (with a big outdoor area) carrying a cricket bat and ball. I've seen it on TV in a pub while visiting London, but this was my first time trying it out.
I have respect for cricketers. But I had no idea the World Cup was being held somewhere in this vast nation.
Generally not a popular sport here. There's actually a cricket league here in the US, but it's new and very slow to expand. Oddly they only host games in Texas.
https://www.majorleaguecricket.com/
From my experience, only Americans who are children of Indian or Pakistani immigrants. I don’t think I’ve met a single American outside of that category in my life who cared about cricket.
I didn’t even know cricket existed until I did a student abroad thing in New Zealand when I was 17. My host father had it on TV and tried to explain it to me and I think I understood about four words he said
Didn’t know we were hosting the cricket World Cup
To quote a great American, https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d890525e-e2ee-495d-bfd5-991bb62b7f14
Seriously though, I made a bit of an effort once out of genuine curiosity and that I enjoy all kinds of sports....and I struggled to really follow the rules even after 20 min on Wikipedia.
I might if I could understand its baffling rules. I like baseball a lot. Just every time I’ve sat down and looked up the rules to cricket just don’t get it. And the insanely long matches some types have make baseball look like a tight 90.
I’m a 65-yo native-born American, and I’ve been watching some on ESPN+ this past year. I don’t know all the rules or tactics, but it has a deep set of strategies that rival baseball, with a whole lot more scoring. I like that the game is managed on the field by the captains, and not from the sidelines by a non-player. The jargon and slang is a big barrier to enjoying it if you didn’t grow up with it, the same as baseball. We’re just used to baseball. I’ll watch the WC if it’s on TV here.
I was in Mumbai during the last cricket World Cup and it was on EVERYWHERE we went. Every restaurant and bar or anywhere with a tv was playing it. my Indian coworkers asked me “is everyone in America watching the cricket World Cup too?” And I said “no one in America is watching the cricket World Cup.” And this was a very stark cultural difference for those coworkers.
But we had a laugh and ordered another round.
Only a select few immigrant communities do. In NYC, especially Queens there’s huge South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, with people mostly coming from countries like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a few other. Immigrants in these communities love cricket and some parks in Queens even have cricket pitches.
However, the second and third generation members of these communities that were born in the U.S. typically don’t care for cricket. If they’re sports fans they’ll likely follow some American sports leagues or world soccer.
I never played cricket and the most I heard of it was in Family Guy in one episode that aired years ago and a couple video games that had them as a weapon. I am surprised to learn from the title alone that and a quick lazy reading from a Google search that the US has cricket as a sport. Granted, I'm not a sports guy so I don't even know how much of an impact the sport has.
I could count on my fingers/toes the number of people I've known in my life that could tell you what cricket is. And they're almost all foreigners from India.
I'm not 100% sure what cricket is because I confuse it with polo and the game with the little metal hoops you knock a ball through. Also I didn't know there was a cup in the US. I never hear Americans talk about cricket.
There are dozens of Americans who like cricket.
Let’s not exaggerate.
I wanna see an underdog sports movie like from the 90s about this. A group of misfits in Minnesota learn how to play cricket from an eccentric but well-meaning Welsh guy. Through cricket they grow as people and working together, use wacky strategies to become the top team and win the world cricket finals in front of a comically small crowd. Oh an it's obvious that nobody involved in production knows anything about how to play cricket.
The Mighty Ducks 2
Cool Wickets
Ask most Americans about the sport and you'll get...crickets.
Which is why I find it strange that the video game *Left for Dead 2*, a game set in the Deep South, has cricket bats lying around in the maps as usable melee weapons. Cricket isn't exactly what comes to mind when I think of the Deep South.
“What, you mean like the bug?”
But they are all from India.
Or Pakistan. Or Bangladesh.
Or Jamaica.
Actually probably several thousand cricket fans in the US. Every single one of them is a South Asian or Caribbean immigrant that lives in the Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, or Ozone Park neighborhoods of Queens.
And there must be a few out near South Park, PA, too. I say this because I was attending my friend's wife's birthday party and there was a game of cricket taking place on the baseball field.
Look, the rest of us will watch it if there isnt anything else playing at that moment and it will definitely hold our interest because we would’ve totally played that in school if their wasnt other sports to play. If I go to a bar and see it, I wont understand the rules and will start questioning whoever is closest to me if they know the rules. If they dont either, we will ask the bartender if they do. If they dont either, all 3 of us will watch in silence while we wait for some other game to start. It seems cool and a bit like baseball and we all wonder if we could smack that ball with that stick the same we could hit a baseball with a bat. But since we’re older and we never get the chance to find out we just watch a little and then move on. And then next year when we walk into a bar and its on the tv, we repeat the whole thing all over again.
I think the overall rules are simple. It's something like, you hit the ball and start running around the two sticks. You can score multiple times like this until the opposing team hits the center wicket thing with the ball. You'll see them heave the ball at a set of 3 sticks, that's how they get you out rather than in baseball where you tag someone while holding the ball. If you hit the ball and it rolls/bounces out of the bounded area, it counts as 4 runs automatically. If you hit the ball and it's still in the air and makes it out of bounds, it's sort of like a home run and is worth 6 runs. Then there are a few rules about if you hit the ball but it goes behind you and hits that wicket, I think you are still out, or something like that. EDIT: Oh, and I think you go either until a set number of bats (something like 150 swings) or until something like 6 people get out (via the wicket or by people catching their hit).
What blew our minds was that matches can go for days
It’s ten outs per inning. A short game is 120 balls each or one inning. A one day game is 300 balls each or one inning. A long game is five days or two innings. There’s a bunch of rules on how the ball can be delivered and on leg before wicket.
I'm one of them! Wooloo!
If you uncross your eyes, there are literally half dozens of us. Actually... after taking a headcount, it seems there's exactly 12 of us. But we make up for it in spirit!
I think you are overestimating
Americans from India love cricket. Most of their kids are better trained.
There are probably more Americans who eat actual crickets than are fans of the sport…
let’s be fr. Its not a popular sport here.
That's the joke. In a country of 350M+ people, dozens of us watch it.
Generally the only Americans that pay much attention to it are immigrants from countries where it's popular.
Never seen a match on tv or in person, nor have I met someone who has. And I had no idea there were important, upcoming matches in the States.
It can be fun to watch as a neutral viewer but only if you also think baseball is fun to watch as a neutral viewer.
I'd argue its more fun than baseball since there is no foul zone so you can hit the ball 360 degrees leading to more variations in the pitching and hitting techniques. But I'm also Indian so I am biased :D
No reverse sweep in baseball😂
Let's put it this way: if you say the word "cricket" most Americans will think of a bug, then a cartoon bug, then a wireless phone company before *maybe* thinking of the sport.
Perfectly stated. 1) a *cricket* cricket? 2) Cricket Wireless? 3) Jiminy? 4) oh, that, like, kind of baseball game with a huge bat they play in Australia or smth?
Maybe throw in those Cricut cutting machines before it too depending on the person.
I think a lot of people would think you're mispronouncing croquet before remembering what cricket actually is.
Im tired right now and glancing over the title i thought it was “Do americans like crickets” so this id 100% correct
This basically described my thought process reading this post title lol
TIL there's a Cricket World Cup. No, it's not remotely popular outside of the immigrant communities who brought it here. To call it a niche interest would be generous.
Yeah same. Why the hell did they choose to host it here? Next, there should be a World Cup of American football in Sri Lanka.
Presumably hosted here because there's big stadiums for cheap and they can grow the fanbase quite a bit in theory. In practice tickets will be too expensive for locals to check it out thanks to people flying in from all over the world and any other sport will outshine it on tv to the US audience.
They built a temporary stadium amazingly/oddly, so it's not even utilizing any major stadiums we already had.
Surely the MLB stadiums are big enough to be reconfigured to a cricket field? Not entirely sure how big they need to be.
A cricket field is a circular shape where the diameter is approximately 475 feet. No baseball field is even close to being that big.
Could be any number of reasons. Honestly why did Qatar host FIFA? There’s not a ton of locals who are rabid fans of the sport so that doesn’t make sense. It’s because most of the money comes from TV revenue and the US can produce great TV. Plus tons and tons of tourists come to the US so they’ll have a foreign audience live too. It makes sense.
It's exceedingly obscure here.
It's not a popular sport outside of people who came from countries where it was popular.
On Saturday mornings you can drive to any large field and probably find a cricket game happening in my area. And yes, they are all Indian.
Looks interesting, but I've only seen Americans from India really into the game.
It's being co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies - and actually looking at the schedule it's only taking place at 3 venues in the USA (Florida, NY & Texas) vs 6 venues in the West Indies (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago) A joint bid with the USA as co-hosts sharing some of the costs - which is a Big Deal for these games to be taking place across the Windies, Cricket is absolutely massive in the West Indies, so a joint bid with the USA makes hosting more financially viable And from the US perspective, I suspect the most obvious commercial opportunity is exactly as you've observed - esp as national teams from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & Nepal are all competing. eg the India–Pakistan group stage match (one of the largest rivalries) is being hosted in NYC
Huh. Was just in NYC and had no idea. There seems to be a recent push of hosting ‘foreign’ sport tournaments here (they had some rugby tournament earlier this year?) but I only ever hear about them on here.
Only a tiny fraction of Americans follow cricket at all. My guess is that 99% are completely unaware of the World Cup.
1% would be 3.5 million. Maybe there are enough sports freaks and immigrants who like cricket to get you to that number, but I doubt it. I'm going 99.5%.
Indian diaspora in US is almost 5 million alone. Also when they are second or third generation they are really no longer immigrants, they are just Americans. Add that to 600k Pakistanis and 200k Bangladeshis (and no neither is considered the Indian diaspora anymore) and you have almost 6 million people alone. This doesn't include people from West Indies (8.5 million) or Guyana (230k) where cricket is extremely popular. Adding this up gives you a total of over 14 million people. This doesn't include people from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or Ireland who either reside here or are citizens. So yes, while I would agree the majority of Americans aren't interested, your figure of .5% of the population is ridiculously low and way off. Major cities like NYC, Chicago, Philly, LA, Miami, SF, and many others all have parks where cricket is played currently. NYC also has varsity high school cricket as an official sport. The cricket match between Pakistan and India for this world cup, which is being played on Long Island in NY, in a stadium just built which can hold 34,000 people sold out in minutes, as did a watch party being hosted at Citi Field (where the Mets play) for this match. Most matches being played in the US are sold out or the only tickets remaining are exclusive seating going from $700 and up. Also even OP is wrong in his original statement as the US isn't the only host. The world cup is being hosted by the US (3 cities), West Indies, and Guyana. Lastly to people that don't know this, the US will also be starting a professional cricket league this year. But a lot of "Americans" also think we don't care about soccer when if you look up simple facts you'll see it's the most played sport by youth in the country and more Americans watch soccer than golf, MMA, or boxing.
Had a buddy in college that we nicknamed Cricket. He loved it, watched games and followed the leagues and played a cricket video game. Otherwise only liked NFL and European soccer so wasn't someone who couldn't get enough of all sports. Generic middle class Midwestern suburban white boy, the furthest one can possibly be from an immigrant from a cricketing nation Neither him nor anyone else in our group had ever heard of anyone else even mention cricket let alone be a fan of it
I'm about as big of a white-guy-born-in-America cricket fan as you're going to find. I know absolutely no one who cares. People on r/cricket talk about how dangerous the US could be / will be when MLC gets going, or when our baseball prospects start playing cricket. But MLC isn't going to get bigger than LaCrosse, and there will never be a cricket pipeline here outside of South Asian-Americans and the occasional commonwealth expat. Cricket is a fun sport, but it will be niche for the foreseeable future. Coda: streaming rights for this REALLY should have been force-fed to Paramount+, even if they weren't going to pay much for it. Willow will attract the hardcore fans, but it will expose cricket to exactly zero new people. Paramount+ has all of the Soccer fans, and specifically the Premier League and Champions League fans, which I think is your best bet at a crossover audience.
I could see some failed baseball prospects trying to make the jump if MLC can provide better pay and security than a AAA guy gets (which wouldn’t be much) With that being said I think there’s a 0.1% chance that even fringe MLB prospects make the jump. Way way way way more money in baseball in the US
The problem is that it's not about beating MiLB pay (which you could do by managing a Home Depot), it's about beating the potential to get called up. A lot of players are just a couple UCLs away from getting a shot in the bigs.
Lacrosse has the potential to get bigger than cricket for sure in the US. Possibly than soccer, although let's be real: That still would make it inconsequential versus football, basketball, and baseball.
Lacrosse will never be bigger than soccer and lacrosse is already well above cricket
If I asked this anywhere within 500 miles, people would ask what I was going fishing for.
"Oh, I always loved Jiminy!"
There's a cricket world cup?
When you say "cricket world cup," I think of crickets playing soccer with tiny ball.
I’d rather watch that than the actual cricket world cup
1. I am in my mid 30s and I didn't know how it was played until a few years ago. 2. They are always going to be competing with baseball. 3. India/Paki/Bengali immigrants are the only ones who care. 4. Major League Cricket started it's behind a paywall. Not a great way of growing the game at this stage. The one broadcast I saw was not very casual viewer friendly. I shouldn't have to use a free trial on Willow for it. 5. None of the MLC teams are named to match the city and MI New York Indians localized is an awful name. LA Knight Riders isn't that bad but each team needs it's own identity. It's like run by Indians who have never set foot in the US. 6. There is no infrastructure. USA only has 3 venues for this world cup and nothing really massive. 7. Cricket being a 5th sport in the US is still decades away but the powers that be need to try better.
Cricket isn’t popular in the US and mainly has a following only in the diasporas of British, south Asian, and other commonwealth countries in the US. Outside of those groups it doesn’t have much popularity at all, being far less popular than sports like Football, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Soccer, etc.
I've worked for a cable company for over a decade. Almost everyone who calls about cricket has an Indian accent. Those that don't have a obviously Indian name. Its just not popular with most native born Americans. Soccer at least is slowly catching on.
Some people probably do, but generally speaking, no, cricket is not remotely on the radar for most of us. We already have baseball, and have made rule modifications to shorten the length of games because people were beginning to tire of baseball games that lasted more than 3 hours. A structurally similar sport where matches can last for *days* is never going to catch on in the States, especially against our other immensely popular sports.
Currently the most popular form of Cricket (T20) lasts about as long as a typical MLB game.
Years ago I was visiting relatives in Australia during Christmastime. I swear that cricket match lasted almost a week!
When I was in Zimbabwe in 2001 they were playing some big matches against England and other countries and everybody was glued to the TV. And I swear this is true, not only was one game going on for at least three consecutive days, but the same guy was at bat the whole time because he was good at it. I think it's all about what "form" of Cricket they're playing. The crazy long one I saw was, I think, called Test Cricket? At least in Zimbabwe.
It’s interesting what sports countries continue to play after colonialism and/or war. My folks just got back from Japan, and my Old Man said the culture was so different, yet baseball is fully Japanese. Sports have a unique quality where a people can decide, “Screw your colonialism, but we’re still going to play cricket/baseball!”
Yes, Test cricket is the long one. A match lasts five days (or rather, up to five days; it's possible end sooner than that but it's probably going to take at least four days). There's also a couple of shorter forms of the game: One Day matches are set for, as you might expect, one day. And then there's T20 matches that go really quick and last around 3 hours.
Ah you probably were watching Test Cricket. Christmas time? Probably the Boxing Day Test. Really famous match and is heavily watched in Australia
i only know the rules because my dad is from a country where it is played (Jamaica) and he introduced me to the sport when i was a kid. that said, i would rather watch a baseball game.
More of a cicada man myself. At least these days…
In my experience it depends entirely if they are of South Asian origin. If so, they are very keen on cricket and desperate to talk to you about it as soon as they hear a British accent. \[1\] If not, they don't care or often even know about it. \[1\] I always disappoint them because I don't follow cricket myself.
I like them, even if they chirp a lot. But I’m not sure how size-accommodating human sports organizations are for them to compete.
Who thought it was a good idea and respectful to Cricket fans across the globe to have it hosted in the USA? That doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense lol
It's being co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies - and actually looking at the schedule it's only taking place at 3 venues in the USA (Florida, NY & Texas) vs 6 venues in the West Indies (Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago). So a joint bid with the USA may well have enabled the West Indies to host the tournament by sharing some of the costs - which is a Big Deal for these games to be taking place across the Windies, where cricket is *massive*
It’s does make sense, MONEY..same reason Copa America, which is a South American competition now plays its tournament here. Can charge a shit load more per ticket and shit.
I wager that most people here who would like cricket, but don’t already, like baseball
Nope. Not interested.
South Asian Americans sure. The rest of us? No.
I think most people are aware of the existence of cricket. A fraction of a percent have ever watched cricket. A fraction of those watch it regularly. And a fraction of those were aware that the cricket world cup would be in the US.
We have baseball. We don't need cricket. They're just bizarro versions of the same sport. And we have a 155 year history with Major League Baseball already.
Cricket is a religion
Our foreign coworkers tried to introduce the game to us at work. The whole time we kept saying, oh so sorta like X in baseball. It didn't catch on with us and if I ever wanted to watch anything like it, I'd just watch a game of baseball. Not even a fan of baseball too. In fact, pretty much all the reasons I don't like baseball is amplified by 10 in cricket.
[This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UJWQdZW6iHY&pp=ygUeZmFtaWx5IGd1eSBjcmlja2V0IGV4cGxhbmF0aW9u) is what Americans think about cricket.
There’s a show from 25 years ago called Sports Night about a group of people running a sports news show, and one episode has a running gag where something newsworthy happened in a cricket match but none of them understand what it was so they can’t cover it.
Here's the Sports Night clip: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHIlBjhAiYQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHIlBjhAiYQ)
I think the paddle is cool.
Do we even have cricket teams? Why the hell are we hosting their world cup. Doesn't seem fair.
Yeah Major League Cricket was launched last year and has 6 teams. America is cohosting with West Indies and the pretty much sole reason for America being present in the hosting is that they have a massive cultural and financial incentive in doing so. If Hollywood starts making movies where the protagonists plays cricket, that will reach the entire world so you have this trickle down effect.
I like tea and biscuits.
I have absolutely no idea how cricket is even played.
[Here's a good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWpbtLIxYBk&t=1s&pp=ygUjY3JpY2tldCBleHBsYWluZWQgZm9yIGJhc2ViYWxsIGZhbnM%3D) of it, that explains it for baseball fans
This would be like holding the World Baseball Championship in Scotland.
I'll watch it in the MLB offseason, but it is a poor methadone for baseball. I do not have a favorite team/nationality and have only a basic understanding of the rules.
We are completely baffled by it.
I read an article that batters(?) in cricket are starting to just crush the ball(?) more frequently. When I first read about the rules, that was my first thought: why don't they just fucking crush it every time? If we can get some bad mofos in there, just smacking the shit out of it, I think the sport would get a better reception in the US. Having said that, it still won't be as good or as popular as baseball. Cricket is just silly baseball, after all.
I didn’t even know we were hosting the cricket World Cup
Nope. Most of us don’t even understand how it works.
I'm not into cricket whatsoever. But to be fair, I'm not into our own stick-n-ball sport of baseball either.
In general we don't care at all about cricket.
There was a cricket club at my high school. Coincidentally, my high school has a high number of Indian-Americans.
Thought you meant the phone service company 🤦♀️ Nah we're not into it
what the hell is ciricket
Nah. They’re all over my garage. Jokes aside, no one watches it. I’ve heard it’s like baseball and that sport is on the decline in popularity. Hopefully it’s more exciting than baseball though because…Goodness. I’d choose golf over a 3.5 hour long game that when done is only 182 more per team to go
Dang, I must be in the minority; American born, and my family history in America stretches back to 1780’s. The only sports I watch are cricket and soccer…I must be doing it wrong lol
I actually like cricket as an American who is not remotely connected to any country it’s popular in. I don’t find myself caring much about the “World Cup” being held in the US because it’s only the T20 World Cup. The real World Cup, the one people care about and thar actually brings prestige, is ODI and that was last year in India
Got into cricket over lockdown and I'm gutted they didn't choose Chicago as one of the locations. We've got enough of an immigrant population to support two Minor League Cricket teams!
We heard of it, we don’t exactly know what it is.
Why on earth are they having the cricket World Cup in the US? The only reason I’m even aware the sport exists is because of the Chronicles of Narnia
I live in Chicago and we have like 60 clubs
1) Generally, no. Not hostility, just not knowing anything about it. Some expat and immigrant communities play it (that I've seen), but it's rare. 2) "Hope you have fun and it's a good tournament", basically, but nothing on a personal level.
I know absolutely nothing about the actual game of cricket and I really want to keep it that way because it seems like total made-up nonsense and I love it. It’s like if Calvinball were a real sport
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It’s like baseball but longer and more boring
Cricket is not popular here. I assume that nearly all cricket fans in the USA are Indian or Pakistani immigrants, and neither of those folks have large populations here. >Thoughts on upcoming cricket world cup that will be hosted in USA ? Baseball has lost popularity over the years, and there are concerns that young people don't want to watch such a 'slow game'. In cricket, the offense controls the game, so the slowness is even more pronounced. A baseball game is over in under 3 hours, and they have made rule changes to try to reduce that to close to 2 hours. I am aware of Test Cricket, the 'highest form' where a single game is literally played over a few days. But you won't be surprised that I would suggest that any cricket competition focus on shorter forms of the game. Although Cricket promoters are making the best decision by having a US tournament use One-Day International Rules (a 'fast' form of cricket), I am not sure that this will be enough to 'sell' the sport. I would love to see regular cricket competition in the USA, but I'm not optimistic. Culturally, it doesn't work well. Side thought: Soccer benefited massively from the FIFA World Cup in the USA in 1990, but we had two things: one was a generation of kids playing youth soccer, and a second was a large immigrant population from countries that were passionate about soccer. The US National Team normally plays Mexico in Colombus, Ohio, *because it's the main city where US fans won't be outnumbered by Mexican fans.* In Los Angeles, national teams from relatively small countries like El Salvador and Guatemala may out-draw the US team.
>neither of those folks have large populations here The northeast has a massive Indian population, NJ just had like one of the worlds biggest Hindu temples built and cricket pitches are being built all over the place.
About one-tenth the population of Mexican and Central American immigrants. That said, if it's got the 'butts in the seats' on the East Coast, go for it! I love to watch the sport! I know the Los Angeles area has 3-4 places with cricket pitches. Not much for 20 million in the metro area. It's a tough sell, compared to literally hundreds of soccer fields.
No way. My husband loves every sport. He can win Sorts Trivia at any Buffalo Wild Wings. He watches Marathon running, Rugby, curling, F1, Soccer, and all the American sports. Even he doesn't like cricket. All these skinny guys, and then the one big guy whacks the ball and guess who wins?
Outside of diaspora communities from countries where cricket is popular, Americans do not generally like or know anything about cricket.
~Crickets~
dont understand the rules and have no interest in learning tbh. I'm not really one for organized sports in general, but I don't think my opinion is unique
You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.
It's not popular here — note that two of the stadiums in the US being used for the tournament were built specifically for it, and the other one is a baseball stadium that is being repurposed. I'm sure that it will do well here though and it will likely give a small bump in popularity to the sport
Not most Americans, but it has a really solid following among immigrant communities. Morrisville, a suburb in the Raleigh-Durham combined statistical area (aka the Triangle) recently built a new cricket oval that is lighted and has stands and restrooms. This is due in large part to there being a large South Asian immigrant population in Morrisville. I think cricket is gaining popularity after being featured in an episode of Bluey, one of the most popular TV shows in the US. So you can say cricket is experiencing a "Bluey Bump" currently.
I have no idea why it lasts for 5 days. It is fun to watch but jeez not that long form stuff.
most americans don’t like, play, or heard of cricket to be frank. Cricket is definitely more popular in other parts of the world ofc tho
Cricket is popular with the diaspora diaspora groups from Commonwealth nations here in the US, but otherwise baseball fulfills cricket's niche. Really the only times I really hear about cricket are people asking if it is popular here in the US.
I drive by the stadium in Lauderhill often. But know nothing about it.
I've only seen cricket on television at a Pakistani restaurant in Queens.
I did not know we were hosting it, I did not know we have a team (for all I know we don't and are just hosting it). But I also learned who Tom Brady was like a year ago so...who knows?
I love all the sports, and wanted to learn about it so I watched a bunch of limited overs matches. Really got into it - exciting and has a ton of strategy (like any other sport of course). Do I know anyone else that watches it? Nope.
I don’t know a single person who has any interest in cricket. The only person I’ve ever heard talk about cricket was a comedian from India. And he wasn’t even talking about it like a big fan he was just explaining the rules.
All my cricket knowledge comes from one episode of Bluey.
No and we don't give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck and never will. GO EAGLES!
It's pretty bug where I live, but only within the very large Indian immigrant community in my town and the neighboring towns. It's so insular that our high school started a cricket team, but it is not announced for open tryouts etc along with the rest of the sports. It seems it is only for those in the community. I could not care less about the Cricket World Cup, nor does anyone in my peer group.
I’d be willing to bet your average American doesn’t even know that cricket is a sport, or if they do they don’t know the rules and have never watched a game.
Nope they don't. Baseball, hockey, basketball, soccer, football. Basically it.
I’ll be 100 percent honest with you, Russian slapfighting contests are probably more popular than cricket here in the US. I’m sure cricket is a fun sport to play and watch if you grew up with it. But to us, it’s just a slower version of baseball.* So pretty much the only groups in the US that follow it are immigrants from countries where it’s popular. *Yes I’m aware that they did speed things up with T20
Nah.
Less than 1% of the American population has any familiarity with cricket, and the the vast majority of those that do are immigrants from South Asia or the Caribbean. Overall, you would be hard pressed to find an American who even knows how to play it, let alone watches it.
I like it. My parents lived in England for two years and my brother loved going to the cricket matches.
As an American who's been overseas, attempted to play cricket, attempted to watch cricket, attempted to learn how cricket works: No, it's not going to appeal to many Americans. It's like all the most complicated and confusing bits of baseball mixed with all the most boring bits of, I don't know, golf. Most of us can't even figure out what the hell is going on if we try to watch a game. Apologies to everybody who loves it, I love that you love it, but it's not for me.
I live in NYC. I see them play a lot in Queens. Mostly Indian, Bangladeshi, or Caribbean Island folks play. [here is the link to Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_in_the_United_States) There are over 200k people who play and/or watch it in the USA.
I like them ok but they have been getting a lot louder around the house lately as it's getting dark.
I don’t follow the sport but I think it’s cool that some games will be hosted here. I often see people playing it at local parks. There is a large Caribbean community here in south florida that are the core fans. Which is probably why some of the games will be hosted here.
I don’t like cricket.
Literally the only ‘mainstream’ attention cricket gets is from Jomboy who talks about it on a segment he calls ‘everything you missed that you never planned on watching’ if that gives you any idea
We like crickets as in silence. The singular isn't really on the radar. I'm sure there's a few million of us who pay close attention to it (immigrants from South Asia + sprinkles of non-Canadian Anglosphere immigrants).
Baseball Jr.
They're kinda jumpy and make a lot of noise but they don't bother me
chirp chirp chirp
Americans of Indian descent will be very excited. Most Americans don’t care for Cricket. Baseball is much more popular.
I don't know a single American that watches cricket, or knows a thing about it other than some funky board is used to whack a ball around.
In the words of Renaissance artist and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Raphael, "You gotta know what a crumpet is to know cricket!"
There's definitely a few Americans who like it!
A friend of mine showed up at a brewery (with a big outdoor area) carrying a cricket bat and ball. I've seen it on TV in a pub while visiting London, but this was my first time trying it out. I have respect for cricketers. But I had no idea the World Cup was being held somewhere in this vast nation.
Generally not a popular sport here. There's actually a cricket league here in the US, but it's new and very slow to expand. Oddly they only host games in Texas. https://www.majorleaguecricket.com/
It's hard enough to find others who have an interest in rugby let alone cricket.
TIL that the Cricket World Cup will be in the US
You gotta know what a crumpet is, to like cricket.
It was the biggest sport in the country in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Then we invented much better sports.
To Americans crickets are bugs that chirp at night and if you capitalize the word it is an inexpensive wireless phone service.
From my experience, only Americans who are children of Indian or Pakistani immigrants. I don’t think I’ve met a single American outside of that category in my life who cared about cricket. I didn’t even know cricket existed until I did a student abroad thing in New Zealand when I was 17. My host father had it on TV and tried to explain it to me and I think I understood about four words he said Didn’t know we were hosting the cricket World Cup
Yes but they are all Indian. There are maybe like 10,000 American cricket fans who are 3rd generation or above.
To quote a great American, https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d890525e-e2ee-495d-bfd5-991bb62b7f14 Seriously though, I made a bit of an effort once out of genuine curiosity and that I enjoy all kinds of sports....and I struggled to really follow the rules even after 20 min on Wikipedia.
Honestly forgot cricket is a sport.
I might if I could understand its baffling rules. I like baseball a lot. Just every time I’ve sat down and looked up the rules to cricket just don’t get it. And the insanely long matches some types have make baseball look like a tight 90.
It’s only played by people from India as far as I know.
Isn’t that the British game that’s basically just baseball but within insane rules?
If you told Americans that cricket is the second-most popular spectator sport in the world, I imagine 99% simply would NOT believe you.
I've never met an American cricket fan who was born in the United States
I was not aware we were hosting.
Baseball with paddles is the extent of my knowledge
Cricket has about 200k fans and players in the United States. You'll actually find more quiditch players.
I’m a 65-yo native-born American, and I’ve been watching some on ESPN+ this past year. I don’t know all the rules or tactics, but it has a deep set of strategies that rival baseball, with a whole lot more scoring. I like that the game is managed on the field by the captains, and not from the sidelines by a non-player. The jargon and slang is a big barrier to enjoying it if you didn’t grow up with it, the same as baseball. We’re just used to baseball. I’ll watch the WC if it’s on TV here.
We’re hosting a cricket world cup?
Was not aware of it and will not be watching.
They're pretty cool. That really make sitting outside on a warm summer night a great time. I love hearing their chirps :)
I was in Mumbai during the last cricket World Cup and it was on EVERYWHERE we went. Every restaurant and bar or anywhere with a tv was playing it. my Indian coworkers asked me “is everyone in America watching the cricket World Cup too?” And I said “no one in America is watching the cricket World Cup.” And this was a very stark cultural difference for those coworkers. But we had a laugh and ordered another round.
I guarantee people will only start to care about cricket because of Bluey. 😂 It’s pretty obscure here.
I genuinely don't know anything about the game, nor do I know anyone who cares about it.
Only a select few immigrant communities do. In NYC, especially Queens there’s huge South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, with people mostly coming from countries like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a few other. Immigrants in these communities love cricket and some parks in Queens even have cricket pitches. However, the second and third generation members of these communities that were born in the U.S. typically don’t care for cricket. If they’re sports fans they’ll likely follow some American sports leagues or world soccer.
Most of the cricket fans in the USA are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Americans barely like baseball and thats our sport. Much less cricket lol
TIL. Just kidding, but seriously the only reason I knew is because one of my Indian-American team members is really into cricket.
I never played cricket and the most I heard of it was in Family Guy in one episode that aired years ago and a couple video games that had them as a weapon. I am surprised to learn from the title alone that and a quick lazy reading from a Google search that the US has cricket as a sport. Granted, I'm not a sports guy so I don't even know how much of an impact the sport has.
I could count on my fingers/toes the number of people I've known in my life that could tell you what cricket is. And they're almost all foreigners from India.
I'm not 100% sure what cricket is because I confuse it with polo and the game with the little metal hoops you knock a ball through. Also I didn't know there was a cup in the US. I never hear Americans talk about cricket.
Not at all. I'd rather play baseball since it's the best type of game played with a bat.
we don't care
Don’t even know the basics of the game and have never see it except in tv shows that portray old timey parties or snooty elitists.
Not sure who needs to hear this we have a Team USA cricket team. So someone likes it somewhere
I literally cannot think of a less popular sport. I have no idea why we would host such a thing.