"Could America take to cricket?"

[Robot Chicken]

Interesting!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8470796.stm

The Indian Premier League has announced plans to bring cricket to the US. But could the home of baseball ever take cricket to its heart?

There are plenty of English people who find it hard to understand the joy of cricket.

But could the United States, the home of brash, all-action sports like American football and basketball, ever embrace a sport steeped in etiquette and played by gentlemen in white trousers?

The Indian Premier League, the new powerhouse in world cricket, certainly hopes so.

This week it promised to take its competition Stateside. Regional Indian sides could be competing in the Twenty20 competition by next year, according to Lalit Modi, the vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

So could cricket take hold in the American imagination?

Many people would be surprised to learn that the US already has a strong cricketing heritage.

A fact that all pub quiz fanatics would do well to note is that the first international cricket match was played between the US and Canada in 1844, in Bloomingdale Park, New York

 

[dahdevon]

i,for one,couldnt give a f***.

 

[withdeanwombat]

i,for one,couldnt give a f***.

Oh,my gosh!

The correct answer,and so soon.

 

[The Wizard]

Never in a million years, perhaps they might like Twenty20 cricket but they would never be able to watch the PROPER stuff, due to all Americans having the attention span of a goldfish.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Never in a million years, perhaps they might like Twenty20 cricket but they would never be able to watch the PROPER stuff, due to all Americans having the attention span of a goldfish.

OY !

Leave those poor sodding goldfish alone.

They love the SUPERBOWL.

 

[Gully]

More chance in Canada where there are loads of ex-pats from the Commonwealth (UK, India, West Indies, etc), which are really the only parts of the World where the glorious game is played to any level.

I worked with a crazy Canuk for a while, who had Indian parentage, to describe him as cricket daft is a master of understatement.

 

[Gerbil]

Test cricket would not stand a chance due to the f***ing yanks attitude of "how can you play for 5 days without a winner" i reckon they will warm to T20, but test and probally 50 over cricket will never happen.

 

[vegster]

Lord help us if they do, we will slip another place in the Deloitte for sure

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Never in a million years, perhaps they might like Twenty20 cricket but they would never be able to watch the PROPER stuff, due to all Americans having the attention span of a goldfish.

And yet loads of people on here moan that American football is too long, slow and stop-start. Its a strange world.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

there's a reasonably large amount of sub-continental/australian/south african/west indian and infact ENGLISH people in america isn't there?

don't see why they'd struggle with twenty20- it takes less time than a american football gam doesn't it? however, look how long it's taken "soccer" to take off there

 

[Billy the Fish]

Doesn't baseball go on for days?

 

[Djmiles]

Doesn't baseball go on for days?

Feels like weeks.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Would Kevin Pietersen be eligible to play for the American national team if this happened?

 

[Uncle Buck]

i,for one,couldnt give a f***.

Why open and then post your oh so expert opinion on a cricket thread, if you are not a cricket fan?

Or is it another look at me poster?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

It would be unfair to inflict another dull, tedious and boring game on a country that already has so many of its own.

 

[The Wizard]

It would be unfair to inflict another dull, tedious and boring game on a country that already has so many of its own.

People like you annoy me, just because you don't understand the game and/or refuse to give it a chance, does not mean its 'dull,tedious OR BORING'

Would Kevin Pietersen be eligible to play for the American national team if this happened?

Zzzzz, his mum is English, what makes him more Saffer than English?

 

[Juan Albion]

I've seen cricket being played in the States. Columbus, Ohio, to be precise.

 

[KNC]

i,for one,couldnt give a f***.

Whats criiiket?

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

People like you annoy me, just because you don't understand the game and/or refuse to give it a chance, does not mean its 'dull,tedious OR BORING'

One of the advantages of living in the States is that there is zero chance of ever seeing this pointless pastime on a TV.

 

[The Wizard]

One of the advantages of living in the States is that there is zero chance of ever seeing this pointless pastime on a TV.

Have you REALLY ever given it a proper chance or are you just being ignorant? like most American natives.

Oh yeah, just to remind you, just because you may not like it does not make it a pointless game.