This weekend, the Yankees and Red Sox will square off in two games at London Stadium, marking the first Major League Baseball games ever played in Europe. It’s the equivalent of two international cricket teams – any two of the teams currently competing in the cricket World Cup, for example – playing a match in …
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Organized cricket has been played in New York City since at least 1838, when the St. George Cricket Club was founded. In 1885, the club relocated to the site of present day Walker Park. I visited on Saturday to watch the Staten Island Cricket Club host the Philadelphia Cricket Club for a 30-over game. The …
Cricket arrived in America with British colonists more than 300 years ago. The game has been played here ever since. Yet it barely registers in the popular imagination. A case in point: Though cricket’s world cup is underway this summer in England, the “Scoreboard” that’s printed in the Times each day carries no mention of …