I don’t know if there are any other cricket fans on these boards, but this summer, the US and West Indies are cohosting the Cricket World Cup. One of the sites is in New York and they have built temporary seating (remind you of anything?). This stadium was just a barren cricket field a few months ago, but should be ready to host its first match on June 3. A total of 8 different matches will be played here between June 3 and June 12.
NY Stadium - T20 Cricket World Cup
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That is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
If there is one thing NU takes away from that example, I hope it is the music. Groovy, I bet it would be fun at parties.
It also makes me wonder if any of our limited seating capacity will be reserved for DJ Commando. Maybe he can get a little hiatus or another gig in Nassau County?
If there is one thing NU takes away from that example, I hope it is the music. Groovy, I bet it would be fun at parties.
It also makes me wonder if any of our limited seating capacity will be reserved for DJ Commando. Maybe he can get a little hiatus or another gig in Nassau County?
I am not a fan and I had no idea, but this is great.
The US will play twice in Dallas, once in New York, and once in Broward.
Each of the teams in Group A — US, Canada, India, Pakistan, and Ireland — will play all their group games in between those three locales.
Group D — South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands — will play its first six games in the U.S. before shifting to the West Indies.
Matches in the US are on something called Willow, unless you’re smarter than I am and wish to mess with VPNs. Cricket powerhouses US and Canada kick off the tournament on June 1.
As you’d expect, ten of the 15-man US roster are of South Asian descent. Cognizant MLC — Major League Cricket — will launch its second season across six cities in July.
The US will play twice in Dallas, once in New York, and once in Broward.
Each of the teams in Group A — US, Canada, India, Pakistan, and Ireland — will play all their group games in between those three locales.
Group D — South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands — will play its first six games in the U.S. before shifting to the West Indies.
Matches in the US are on something called Willow, unless you’re smarter than I am and wish to mess with VPNs. Cricket powerhouses US and Canada kick off the tournament on June 1.
As you’d expect, ten of the 15-man US roster are of South Asian descent. Cognizant MLC — Major League Cricket — will launch its second season across six cities in July.
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C'mon Bob, I know you're smarter than that. Temporary stadium for cricket, temporary stadium for NU football. Gotta do better.
Really? And we made a host of connections between Prez congressional testimony and NUFB.
Can’t wait to read the other connection on the next thread…
In the cricket world, that is the equivalent of Appalachian State upsetting Michigan in 2007. Kudos to the USA cricket team!
Ha interesting that someone else noticed this. I play golf periodically at Eisenhower Park on the weekends (in Nassau County, in the middle of Long Island, where this stadium was put up). They have 3 courses there, 2 of which I like. I was quite surprised last weekend when I showed up to find it mobbed with people and all thru traffic in the park blocked off. Based on the jerseys it must have been an India match.
I now know to check ahead - the USA over Pakistan match was down in Dallas, but there is India vs Pakistan on this upcoming Sunday when I was going to play. Safe to say I will be golfing elsewhere... or maybe I should bring a 6-pack of tasty beer and go tailgate with the cricket fans instead!
Unfortunately I didn't get close enough to the cricket facility itself to provide a report on the quality of the stadium or facilities setup. But there certainly seemed to be a healthy number of fans showing up so they must have built out something respectable.
Good background.
These matches last about as long as a post-pitch clock MLB game.
There are 3 main cricket formats, two of which have limited overs. An over is 6 balls bowled (pitched). This World Cup is the T20 format, in which each team has 20 overs (120 balls) to score runs. The overs could be limited based on bad weather or if batting team loses all 10 wickets (outs). These matches usually last around 3 hours total (for both teams to get 20 overs).
The other limited over format is the 50 over per team, also known as a one day international (ODI). Similar setup as T20, just longer. These matches usually last around 7-8 hours (but as the name suggests, done in a single day).
The final format is called Test cricket and this was the original game. There are unlimited overs per side. Both teams have two alternating innings each which must be completed within 5 days (bad weather days are not made up). The bowling (pitching) team has to get 10 outs of the batting team per inning. The length of play of each day is 7-8 hours, which are divided into three sessions. The players (and umpires) take a lunch break between the first and second session, and an afternoon tea break between the second and third session.
There are other differences between formats such as the ball used and uniforms the teams wear. And of course the format used heavily dictates the strategy employed.
In a nutshell, the first batting team’s goal is to protect the wickets and score as many runs as they can while doing so. The first bowling team’s goal is to get all 10 outs and limit the runs until the number of overs is complete. The team batting second then has to protect the wickets with a target of at least one more run scored while the team bowling second has to get all 10 outs or delay the target run acquisition until the number of overs is complete.
Thanks for your lucid description, darmok. A brother-in-law (former NROTC instructor at NU) was stationed for a term in the U.K. and was welcomed onto a weekend cricket team. He came to love the sport and has since urged my interest as well. Perhaps this summer I'll finally give it a shot.
The one match I saw in England seemed impenetrable, likely as much as baseball surely seems at first to the uninitiated. In fact, back in 1972 in Houston I'd been asked to host a visiting author from Hungary who was touring the U.S. on a State Dept program. He surprised by asking to take in a baseball game at the Astrodome between the Reds and Astros..
It was a memorable experience for various reasons. The game was played on a night of torrential downpour and street flooding (yes, we had those back then too), so much so that a couple of streams poured through cracks in the Dome's otherwise weather-proof roof. But for me the biggest challenge was, once inside and seated, trying to explain what was happening onfield.
Not content to stare at the Dome's bells'n'whistles, the Hungarian writer began asking me to explain virtually everything. In fact he even pulled out a small notepad, presumably to record impressions. (I wondered if he planned to set a novel in America.) His English was certainly passable yet not wholly fluent, so I tried speak slowly and simply. But one can't explain baseball without using some terminology peculiar to the sport, and each explanation led to more questions. It got increasingly complicated.
Why, he asked, do "substitutes" sit in a partially submerged area called a "dugout?" What is meant by a "bullpen?" When a certain Cincinnati player named Johnny Bench (that season's HR leader and NL MVP) blasted a homer over the left field seats, that prompted the question about how often such a prodigious hit occurred. In trying to explain baseball numbers I mentioned that someone named Babe Ruth had hit 714 homers in a career. That seemed to stun the Hungarian, who wondered how many other interesting statistics I knew involving the game.
My lame but ongoing commentary was so thunderously boring that I could swear other spectators in our area moved farther away. My companion seemed untiring and the deluge outside discouraged our early departure. The author never stopped asking questions and taking notes through the whole nine innings.
Finally it all ended and in much relief I got him back to the hotel. Never again, I thought. It was months later when the same State Dept office called and asked specifically if I'd be available as a 1-2 day guide for another visitor from behind the then-Iron Curtain. "Why me?," I pleaded. It was, I learned, because the Hungarian's visit and subsequent writeup had gone so well. That was stunning. How could that exhausting evening have had a positive effect?
It turned out that the "author" to whom I'd been introduced had written some fiction and a play or two, but was mostly known as a newspaper journalist. He'd returned to Budapest and produced a SERIES of columns based on his night of America's curious national pastime in the company of an "expert host." The guy in Washington told me the whole thing was thought to be a successful exercise in Cold War diplomacy! Who knew? Still, I declined to serve further as intercultural representative for MLB.
In subsequent years I admit, however, to wishing a literal translation -- from Hungarian to English -- of the baseball-related columns could be obtained. It would be interesting to see how much of that night's blather would result in anything intelligible to a reader in that country.
All by way of saying why darmok's clear explanation of cricket's three formats was so welcome. We need more info, however. May I request that AstroCat consider hosting a Zoom gathering -- akin to his enjoyable Wildcat football sessions -- and that Darmok serve as ongoing commentator during the Cricket World Cup? Is that too much to ask?
The one match I saw in England seemed impenetrable, likely as much as baseball surely seems at first to the uninitiated. In fact, back in 1972 in Houston I'd been asked to host a visiting author from Hungary who was touring the U.S. on a State Dept program. He surprised by asking to take in a baseball game at the Astrodome between the Reds and Astros..
It was a memorable experience for various reasons. The game was played on a night of torrential downpour and street flooding (yes, we had those back then too), so much so that a couple of streams poured through cracks in the Dome's otherwise weather-proof roof. But for me the biggest challenge was, once inside and seated, trying to explain what was happening onfield.
Not content to stare at the Dome's bells'n'whistles, the Hungarian writer began asking me to explain virtually everything. In fact he even pulled out a small notepad, presumably to record impressions. (I wondered if he planned to set a novel in America.) His English was certainly passable yet not wholly fluent, so I tried speak slowly and simply. But one can't explain baseball without using some terminology peculiar to the sport, and each explanation led to more questions. It got increasingly complicated.
Why, he asked, do "substitutes" sit in a partially submerged area called a "dugout?" What is meant by a "bullpen?" When a certain Cincinnati player named Johnny Bench (that season's HR leader and NL MVP) blasted a homer over the left field seats, that prompted the question about how often such a prodigious hit occurred. In trying to explain baseball numbers I mentioned that someone named Babe Ruth had hit 714 homers in a career. That seemed to stun the Hungarian, who wondered how many other interesting statistics I knew involving the game.
My lame but ongoing commentary was so thunderously boring that I could swear other spectators in our area moved farther away. My companion seemed untiring and the deluge outside discouraged our early departure. The author never stopped asking questions and taking notes through the whole nine innings.
Finally it all ended and in much relief I got him back to the hotel. Never again, I thought. It was months later when the same State Dept office called and asked specifically if I'd be available as a 1-2 day guide for another visitor from behind the then-Iron Curtain. "Why me?," I pleaded. It was, I learned, because the Hungarian's visit and subsequent writeup had gone so well. That was stunning. How could that exhausting evening have had a positive effect?
It turned out that the "author" to whom I'd been introduced had written some fiction and a play or two, but was mostly known as a newspaper journalist. He'd returned to Budapest and produced a SERIES of columns based on his night of America's curious national pastime in the company of an "expert host." The guy in Washington told me the whole thing was thought to be a successful exercise in Cold War diplomacy! Who knew? Still, I declined to serve further as intercultural representative for MLB.
In subsequent years I admit, however, to wishing a literal translation -- from Hungarian to English -- of the baseball-related columns could be obtained. It would be interesting to see how much of that night's blather would result in anything intelligible to a reader in that country.
All by way of saying why darmok's clear explanation of cricket's three formats was so welcome. We need more info, however. May I request that AstroCat consider hosting a Zoom gathering -- akin to his enjoyable Wildcat football sessions -- and that Darmok serve as ongoing commentator during the Cricket World Cup? Is that too much to ask?