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Cricket gets a life in New York

April 3, 2008 posted by indiatime |

Cricket fans in India may not yet be over their gloom from this morning’s disastrous performance by the home team. But non-resident cricket fans in the USA, especially in New York, are in for a surprize this week. Yesterday, New York city’s department of education inagurated Cricket as a league sport. Cricket’s first high school season in New York starts with 600 participants from 14 schools, and will last for 12 games.

Although New York has had more than a few Cricket leagues for a while, yesterday marks the first time that the a government body in the United States has officially embraced Cricket. USACA, the official Cricketing body in the USA, currently boasts of 8 regions. Cricket is also played in several universities across the US, although so far it has evoked more curiosity than interest.

The US Cricketing association has a lot to celebate this week. Apart from the New York city initiative, they also got the good news about their re-inclusion in the International Cricketing body ICC (US was suspended by the ICC last year). This means the US Cricket team can now compete to qualify for the 2011 Cricket world cup, for whatever it’s worth.


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  1. sam on April 4, 2008 8:12 pm

    Oh.. NO.. cricket in US too..? Aren’t we already tired of it?

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