I'm a huge cricket fan and I was wondering what the following of cricket is in the U.S. I realise a lot of Americans think it's a silly sport, but surely some people like to play!
2007-03-16 08:22:18 · 7 answers · asked by Navtej Kohli 2 in Sports ➔ Cricket
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~ Navtej Kohli aka Tej Kohli
2007-03-16 08:22:58 · update #1
Like what other people have been saying it's played by expats, immigrants, and students from cricket nations. If you lived in an area that had a large amount of people from India or Pakistan , say like New Jersey or New York City then people have formed cricket teams and leagues.
I don't think cricket is silly it's just that in the USA we are a baseball playing nation.In the America's baseball is huge in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, and Venezuela Of course American Football is the #1 sport in the USA in regards to overall popularity. If you want to watch the Cricket World Cup you'll have to buy a satellite dish and pay extra money for the cricket since it's not on any of the regular channels that show sports.
Cricket has no heritage or tradition in the USA, because we took the British game of rounders and adapted it into baseball. This happened in the early 1800's. In fact it is very unlikely many American children even would ever play cricket.
You see in the USA students have many choices in deciding what sport to play and it ranges from American Football to Wrestling. At the high school and college level there's no official cricket teams.
Yes we do have a cricket association, but it was suspended. Read the details of what happened.http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200703/s1862286.htm
2007-03-16 13:18:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to be trying to ridicule Americans, for not playing cricket, and that we have no respect for it. Also, I can assure you that the vast majority of Americans (99.99999%) do not complain about the difficulty or danger of cricket. It simply is not part of our culture, and is not even in our consciousness. There is no reason for you to try to make it sound as if we are afraid to play cricket, and also I can assure you that being hit by a baseball thrown near 100 miles per hour will hurt more than any leather ball "bowled" in cricket. Also there is much more to baseball the hitting and pitching. Baseball is a sport of many skills which take years to master, and you should make sure that you understand it fully before you compare it to cricket. Americans are not afraid of cricket, which you are trying to imply. We would play it if we grew up with it. But with baseball, football, and basketball, the three major sports in the United States, cricket will never be big here.
2016-03-29 01:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cricket is played in America, there are Australians, English Indians, West Indians ect and a few Americans
most of them are from oversea
2007-03-16 10:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by jobees 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes Americans have an assosiation and they play cricket.
This is the official cricketinfo site for American cricket
http://www1.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/ICC_MEMBERS/USA/
Take Care
Shelly
2007-03-18 17:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by Shelly T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont know about american cricket association but here in texas we have NTCA (north texas cricket association)
http://www.ntcricket.com/
We have 24 memeber clubs in it.
2007-03-16 09:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They do and do you know they got disqualified this year for ICC2007 world cup. Just shame on them. I was existed to be able to watch them this year but OH! well. May be next time.
2007-03-16 08:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by rupalus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes to both
2007-03-16 20:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋