Bringing Cricket to American Sports Fans
Test Season
Cricket fans in the US have been feeding on a steady diet of T20 for months. The IPL and PSL in the spring gave way to Major League Cricket and Minor League Cricket this summer and then the CPL this fall. Finally, though, fans can sink their teeth into some deeper play as we're about to embark on a busy international Test schedule. And despite the fact that the action will take place half-way around the world, because of time differences, the majority of matches will be in very viewer-friendly prime time for those in the States....(Read more)
2025 Major League Cricket Preview
The third season of Major League Cricket is about to get underway and this promises to be the biggest and boldest version of the league to date. Each team will play ten matches (as opposed to seven each in 2024 and five each in 2023). And the number of venues they'll be battling it out in has increased to three. While, sadly, the beautiful cricket ground in Morrisville, North Carolina won't be hosting any matches, the league is excited about opening the season in the recently repurposed Oakland Coliseum. League games will also be played at Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill, Florida -- a dedicated cricket ground that was used in last year's World Cup and that's also hosted CPL matches -- and at Grand Prairie Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas, where the league has played... (Read more)
The Rules
Not the 18th century "Laws of Cricket," but a quick way to understand the basics of the game and be able to watch either live or televised cricket as if you've been doing it for years.
Terminology
Cricket is famous for its jargon and terminology. Don't fret! I've come up with the 40 most used words and phrases that you'll need in order to watch, understand, and enjoy the game.
Features
My take on what's going on in the sport. Hopefully, it'll help you understand things a little bit better. If it doesn't, I apologize in advance.
About CricAmerica
Why an already really busy guy decided to devote a ridiculous amount of his time to watching, thinking about, reading about, and writing about a sport he only discovered a few years ago.
Most Americans have a preconception about cricket -- that it’s a complex and slow-paced, days-long game played in England by guys dressed in white. And while, yes, this is partially true, it's generally based on very limited exposure. (It'd be like generalizing that football is a game played only by giant, freezing guys in Buffalo and Green Bay.)
The fact is that cricket is just a really weird version of baseball. Take a big swig of NyQuil, go to sleep, and have a dream about baseball.
That's cricket.
Batters have to be a bizarre combination of Tuukka Rask, Ichiro, and Mike Trout. The guys throwing to the batters are not only gunning it at 90-plus mph, but they get the added advantage of being able to bounce the ball to further mess with the hitter. No one on the fielding team -- other than the guy that's essentially the catcher -- is allowed to wear a glove. (And the ball is even harder than a baseball.) Oh, and there's no foul ground. You can hit the ball anywhere.
A NyQuil dream about baseball.
Other than that, though, the rules are incredibly similar to baseball.
My goal for CricAmerica is to have you be able to watch, understand, and enjoy cricket. Your initial investment is minimal. Start with The Rules section and the Features section and then poke around the rest of the site, which is constantly being updated.
The return on your investment? The ability to enjoy the athleticism, excitement, and drama of the second most popular sport in the world.
More importantly, it'll let you pretend to work while watching the best players in the world square off live in an Indian Premier League game at 11:00 on a Tuesday morning.
