NEIL MANTHORP: ICC effort to ‘crack’ US market likely in vain
04 June 2024 - 05:00
New York — One of the great diversions in cricket’s centuries of strange turns is seeing a World Cup being played in New York and as one of eight venues. It is a tremendous, headline-grabbing notion. As with most realities, it is a little different.
For a start the eight scheduled games are actually being played in sleepy Long Island, almost 80km outside the city in a purpose built, pop-up stadium with a capacity of almost 35,000, more than the Wanderers and Lord’s...
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