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Originally posted by ctorg
I think it's odd that soccer is so popular in the rest of the world outside the US, yet in the US it's still a fringe sport.
I guess when you give someone a choice between baseball and cricket, and they're much more familiar with cricket, they're going to choose that. Can you imagine trying to popularize cricket in the US? People would think it's too similar to baseball, most likely.
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I think the big problem you'd have trying to get cricket to catch on here is the pace and length of games. Many kids (and adults) today can't sit through two innings of baseball without whining about how slow and boring it is. International cricket test matches take something like
five days to play, and the more recent, modified, quick game rules allow for a match to actually be completed in a single day.
What I'd like to see would be a US-based WWC... Vince McMahon bringing his unique (ahem) style to popularizing cricket in the US! Explosions! New York's leading bowler taking a folding chair to Seattle's star silly mid-off! Juiced balls for plenty of sixes and fours! No padding or masks, even for the wicket-keeper! Fireworks shooting out of the wicket when the bails are knocked off!! It would cause W.G. Grace to roll over in his grave about 200 times, but it would certainly make Americans aware of cricket for once in their lives.