Cricket is now India soft power

Don't call South Asians. It's The Indian subcontinent.

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One of the oldest cricket clubs in America is the Pennsylvania Cricket Club. Also the Harlem Cricket Club (Harlem of New York) were put up by John Getty when they came over to tour England. Getty, an American in love of all things British, had his own cricket field! The image of an extremely wealthy American putting up an American cricket team who were basically scraping by is unusual!

*I AM GONNA WATCH MLC WITH MY BOYS BECAUSE FOR ME CRICKET IS NOT JUST A GAME ITS AN EMOTION.*

We need to IPL as a brand in associate members of ICC. That helps to spread the game and the worldcup shall be excited in future...

I'm glad to see support building for MLC. A couple of things: In the video, you said "Major Cricket League" a few times. It is actually Major League Cricket. The distinction is important, because there are imposters who brag about plans for Major Cricket League and confuse fans abroad. Also, the average IPL game time is actually much longer than the average MLB game time. Also, it's important to consider that while baseball popularity is slipping, it's still averaging about the same in per game attendance as the Indian Super League is. India Super League is Asia's top attendance football league. In MLB, each team plays 162 games per season, and so that's a lot of revenue just by ticket sales alone. Throw in the broadcast deals, and the average MLB team is worth over $2b USD. That means that just 6 MLB teams (out of 30) are worth more than the entire IPL. I say this not as a flex, but to point out the fact that our sports economy is much stronger, even with lesser viewers. Another thing to consider is those who created the myth that baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown were actually baseball players and top cricketers in the USA at the time. I feel these men knew first hand the difficulty marketing cricket and hence came up with this scheme. Another very important thing: Cricket was actually quite popular in Philadelphia until the ICC formed and voted to exclude USA and Argentina. American Bart King, also a baseball player, is widely considered the best cricketer in history to never play test cricket, as he routinely took the wickets of top English and Australians and was even the top bowler in county cricket in England one summer. Cricket's enemy is so often its gatekeepers, and has been from the start. Let's hope that MLC can do what USA Cricket have had no interest in doing: Popularizing the sport throughout the mainstream USA instead of preserving it for expats.

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the best part about the U.S. is the sports culture here loves all sports no matter what it is. I play baseball, and don't mind at all. I think there can be a market for both without really clashing against each other. Rugby is popular here and so is the NFL, there is no reason that cricket and baseball cannot coexist either.

Thank you for a wonderful summary of "American Cricket" and the upcoming US T20 season. Since your video, there have been major announcements, of course, the most exciting for me being the establishment of a San Francisco team linked with Victoria, my home state. In the meantime, incidentally, baseball has announced some major changes to speed up the game - proving to be very successful after just one month into the season - so it is not going to give its mantle as the American game without a fight.

Great analysis. Keep doing it . 👏

Great Researched knowledgeable Video 👍 Thank you Brother 😀

India has about 2 billion people so I don’t think anyone wants cricket in the U.S. to be only played by Indians who ran away from India!… I don’t believe that people from the UK will come to the US to play or watch cricket or Americans will ever be interesting in this sport!… So what does that mean?… It means that it will only be played by Indians living in the USA!

Pretty good one bro . I really liked your research on the topic keep it up 😊

Fascinating!

Cricket 🏏 is Americans New game

Though I am not a Pakistani, I first thanks Pakistan Cricket Club team in Washington DC for giving me the opportunity to play for for few years in early 80's. It was a diverse team and our main Wicket Keeper was white American boy name Gus. Players in all teams are from all over the world and we had a wonderful time. Even the Indian Cricket team under the captaincy of Sunil Gavaskar came to Washington and played an exhibition game and both Indian and Pakistani embassies sponsor it like a family. Unlike those days, now a these days players are more advance and play in turf pitches. I am very happy to see how far the game came from those good old days and as an avid fan of cricket, I am very much thankful to those who are bringing cricket to this Nation. Wish you all the best.

As pakistani cricket player and coach. Best of luck Usa ❤ as gaining cricket popularity. I think usa players nowadays have more opportunities. Recently seen that joe root cricket academy also built on Florida. That really will shape the young players

Brother you deserve more subscribers ❤️🙂

You do get reviews in baseball. In the MLB each team is allowed 1 review. They have introduced a pitch timer to reduce the length of matches, this will start in the 2023 MLB season. I have heard American sports fans argue that runs should be as hard to score as possible The notion of 300-400 runs per game would be anathema to that philosophy. This is why most of them might ultimately choose baseball over cricket.

I want all cricket matches to shown on all over USA sports channels like ESPN not only on Willow channel

In Caanada in some high schools around the Toronto area they play cricket.

India becomes the dominating country in all aspects including cricket

I don't see why we can't have both baseball and cricket. The MLLB has implemented new rules for the 2023 season, including a pitch clock, which will greatly speed up play, and make the game more exciting with an expected increase in stolen base attempts.

Good video

That Match was the first ever international sport match between nations

america soon major cricket power nation t20 format

2:15 Good that you pointed that out. That's still 1 reason. Other reasons are the absence of professionalism back then in Cricket thanks to the attitude of Cricket administrators in England (similar attitudes towards professionalism in Rugby led to the Union & League split). Then of course it's the ICC (then Imperial Cricket Conference, now International Cricket Council) who after being founded in 1909 banned membership for countries not in the British Empire which also helped kill Cricket in not just US but also countries like Argentina.

man just found this very good information may india helps USA to gain their cricket back

New and exciting formats like T20? Nothing's ever going to be as exciting as the twist and turns over the 5 days of a test match!

Not really. You are speaking of a small group in a overwhelming large population that hold Football, Baseball and Basketball dearly with the World’s most popular sport soccer/football trying making it in USA, but failing to take off. Cricket! Nay. I say this with respect

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Content is good but your sound quality is bad, keep moderation in sound throughout the video. --Concerned viewer

I always support for only native player's. Suppose Nepal, Argentina, Japan, Malaysia etc.

After 10 year 100 percent cricket beat football in world

I hope it goes well and I've subscribed. Let's hope to see some of the white Americans joining in and cricket get really big in the USA.

Jason Roy has been given permission by the E&W cricket board to play in this years MLC season.

As long as the local doesn’t play , this game will never be a global sports … For example Hong Kong team, even they participate in the word cup , 97 percent of the population that are HK Chinese won’t know if HK ever participated in the World Cup because there isn’t even 1 Chinese guy representing HK team …

t20 is exciting but test cricket is the ultimate cricket , At the momet India vs Australia World test championship final is going on

Great game is gaining back in USA

Cricket is alive by the grace of india.

It's not soccer 😑😑 We call it football ⚽

Do Philadelphia has a cricket team

I maybe wrong but wasn’t cricket the biggest or nearly biggest game in America before the civil war

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Good mlc should become successful

T20 match lasting 3 hours is the biggest scam of Cricket 🙂 Baseball lasts 3 hours while t20 lasts more than 4 hours. ICC brags the t20 match to last 70 minutes per side with 10 minute break, but in practice we know that if a match starts at 7pm it is gonna end at least at 11:30 pm (e-g take the last t20 match of ipl). All in all, it is about marketing strategy not about time duration. Forget about ODI or Test cricket which lasts for a whole day e-g from 9 am till 6 pm.

cricket should adapt 10 overs format. 20 over format is not going to get popular. unless we match the football timing there is lesser chance any new nation will adapt it.

i want cricket to become huge in usa if it happens then all major western countries will follow it

Cricket is a great game, but it will not supplant baseball as our summer game. It can and perhaps will garner interest from some baseball fans, but it is not a more interesting game. Baserunning is much more exciting and important in baseball than cricket, not the least because there are 4 in baseball, not 2. Rugby has launched a professional league in the USA (Major League Rugby) and it will grow as a sport, but it, as well, will not overtake American Football. Not in any time frame I can forsee.

Baseball takes too long but Cricket lasts for 5 days. I don’t think length is the issue

usa team consists of expartriates. Are they qualified to represent USA if they don't ave the us citizen?

My friend, rain is the biggest malady of cricket because each team has only one inning each. The D/L is the biggest joke in the history of sports.

Like America doesn't have enough problems.

There are indians in every national teams all over the world New zealand Hong kong Uae Usa Netherlands Philepinese Singapore Malaysia Kuwait Etc 😂

That showoff is the reason baseball is declining in amerikkka...just wait and see if cricket will catch on that's all

*CAN AMERICA BECOME A SUPER POWER IN CRICKET?*

I love to see the downfall of Baseball, it's the most stupid game ever, full of absurd laziness. Cricket is exciting, more demanding as well as requires far more skill and fortitude. Baseball fans will find more love for cricket in America. Americans love the heat and excitement.

Baseball has the pitch clock and the average game is 2 1/2 hours for 9 innings. There is replay Baseball is the 2nd most popular sport in America. Tv ratings and attendance is up this season. Cricket is for is like badminton, it has a niche for Indian immigrants. Even Indian Americans are baseball, (American) football & basketball. Your video is inaccurate in a lot of areas and too many to list.

Baseball is trash and Cricket is worse. I played baseball and soccer as a kid. In baseball I was a shortstop or center fielder depending on where the coaches wanted my glove. When I played soccer, I was the Goalkeeper. Years later, after I had completely stopped playing team sports - I was convinced by friends to play Lacrosse. Modern Lacrosse is a descendant of a Native American game, and is superior to American Football, baseball, soccer, cricket...all of them. Lacrosse is the fastest game on two feet. Field Lacrosse requires stamina like soccer, has hard hits like American Football and allows for spectacular passing and scoring like basketball. I would rather play off the bench at any position in Lacrosse than be a starter in another sport. I'd prefer to watch it as well. Come to the U.S or Canada and learn to love Lacrosse. The Commonwealth can keep Cricket to themselves.

USA might become best team in the world due to it's diversity. 😁😁😁

I surmised that based on what you said throughout the video - and what you did not say - you know little to nothing about baseball other then a rumour you heard that baseball is losing popularity. Soccer was once popular in the USA but fell out of favor because Americans fell in love with sports that they developed (and maybe this too contributed to the USA's world-reknowed reputation for ingenuity and creativity). It's taken decades and tons of money and hard work to make soccer popular in the USA again. The USA was a melting pot before South East Asians came to this country. You would think that people who came to the USA in the pursuit of becoming proud American citizens would have more of an interest in learning about and experiencing for themselves uniquely American cultural activities like baseball but instead you are trying to manipulate and force down our throats something Americans gave up on a long time ago.

it's called INDIAN SUBCONTINENT. DON'T PEDDLE CIA TERMINOLOGY

So the only way to make cricket popular in the U.S. is to disparage baseball? IF CRICKET IS TO GREAT IT CAN SUCCEED ON ITS OWN MERITS. Why do you need to disparage the best sport on the planet and one that I love? This stupid video turned me off immediately. Running down baseball is not the way to popularize cricket. This video really pissed me off. I was going to look into cricket, but no more.

I think it would be a wishful thinking to suggest that America is soon going to become a cricketing crazy nation. The really is that the cricketing crazy people are of Indian and Pakistani descent, and it will remain so for a considerable time to come.

fact is cricket can't grow in country other than south asia , even excluding Bhutan & Maldives .. Basically its market is Akhand Bharat & never will go beyond this ... Probably it will be a dead sport before 2034 ..

There's a reason American sports haven't caught on worldwide...they suck. 😂 Cricket, football, rugby. Nothing is better on a warm Sunday than to spend it on a Cricket Pavilion with your friends, a few beers and sandwiches. It's a preview of heaven.

Americans will never like that boring test format

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