Over three days in September 1844, cricket teams from Canada and the U.S. met on a pitch in Manhattan in the first international match of any modern sport. Canada won by 23 runs. Though the U.S. would continue to host international matches, cricket, which has been played in America since the founding, slowly gave way to baseball, …
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I did not expect to be crying tears of joy when England won its first Cricket World Cup. But I sat on my sofa, with my eyes watering, minutes after Jos Buttler dived for the stumps to give England the victory. The emotion came partly from the intensity of watching nearly every ball for nine …
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Spent the day in Greenwich on Saturday watching a friendly between the host Mad Dogs cricket club and Gentlemen of Philadelphia. I sat at the scorer’s table, where the very nice member introduced me to scoring and answered my questions throughout. Afterward, the clubs gathered for a chat and a photo.
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 …