Originally posted by jrg:
No s**t. I'm using rugby as an example because that's the one that is usually having tons and tons of threads. Give it some time and there will be more and more cricket threads too.
Sorry, my bad I thought "Other Sports" was the appropriate place for a thread about one of the premier T20 cricket competitions, obviously not.
Maybe you should get onto the mods about the dozen NBL and baseball threads on the first page of other sports obviously we only need one on every sport.
I cant see a problem with any thread provided it is posted in the appropriate place, if it doesn't interest you don't open it.
A bit of American cricket history, its generally agreed by sports historians that cricket, besides the Native American sport lacrosse, was both the first organized team sport and the first major team sport in the United States
There are archives dated back from 1709 of cricket played in America. A New York newspaper from 1739 contains an advertisement for cricket players and the first documented competition occurred in 1751 in Manhattan. Cricket received a significant amount of media coverage at the time. The sport was played in approximately 125 cities in 22 states. Roughly 500 officially established clubs existed and it is probable that in 1860 there were 10,000 boys and men in America who had actively played the sport for at least a season.
The United States and Canada participated in one of the first international cricket matches on record in 1844 in Bloomingdale Park in Manhattan.
