2007-10-12 02:17:15 · 19 answers · asked by ahmed 1 in Sports ➔ Cricket
because they dont know how to play
2007-10-13 03:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because cricket is not at all a popular game in America not many people are coming forward to play cricket and as such America have not been able to build up a good cricket team.
2007-10-12 04:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by vakayil k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The game does not appeal to the American sports audiences. Being American and having had the exerience of someone attempting to explain the game to me, I would say there are two stopping points for Cricket in America.
1. The game is just too complex. That doesn't make American sports audiences ignorant, they just prefer something that they can sit down and in a few minutes they can understand the basics of the game and have it make sense. Cricket in this regard is somewhat like learning to drink wine. It is an aquired taste that one must learn over time. And that just tends not to go over well with the American Sports audience.
2. The game just goes on far too long. In the U.S. there is a huge amount of pressure on work and making money and so on, so free time is limited and when we do have free time we don't have the kind of time to sit down and spend entire days watching one sporting event. And as I understand it, games can run even longer than that. So no we like our sports in nice neat little packages of about 2 to 4 hours. Where we can sit, watch enjoy, be excited and then be done and know the out come in the same day.
2007-10-12 02:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by John 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America is a very 'now' society I think. The patience required to play 5 days of test match cricket would be lost on them. Mind you, perhaps look for them to make an entry into the T20 scene. There is cricket played in the US and T20 might just start to appeal to their baseball/basketball wham-bam mentality.
EDIT: And I think Lulu might be right, he may have found a country his team can beat regularly. :-P
2007-10-12 02:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by Quandary 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ICC banned America from playing cricket.
2007-10-12 02:49:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their Bernard Shaw ridiculed cricket as a game played by 22 fools and watched by 22000 fools.
2007-10-12 04:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some times they play it but there not good cricket it..if you go to NYC you see Guyanese and Indians play cricket the first ever international cricket match took place between the United States and Canada although neither has ever been ranked as a Test-playing nation.
2016-04-08 05:04:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Americans think cricket as a dull game.they prefer baseball which almost looks similar but less time consuming.And cricket is only for lazy people who likes to waste their time in front of the idiot box.
2007-10-12 05:23:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
americans dont play cricket bcoz dey r d most scarred lot of d world and as u guyz know cricket has one of d most number of injuries record dey r scarred dey might break deir finger nail. besides cricket is too complicated for deir IQ level.dey can only understand rugby whch dey call football.weird ppl i mean foot and ball has no connection in rugby
2007-10-12 06:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cricket is too complicated for the American mind. Americans are so fat that sumo wrestling should be the national sport for the country.
2007-10-12 03:20:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As America is not under Commonwealth Country moreover they were not under British rule.
2007-10-12 03:24:22 · answer #11 · answered by champabhilai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋