Post Apocalypso Cricket
From the mid-70s to the early 90s, the West Indies Cricket team was the most dominating cricket XI on the planet. They didn't just beat teams and other nations, they destroyed them. As a sports fan, you'd have to look…
Foreign Correspondent
As an American who's gone to tons of professional and college sporting events over the past thousand or so years, it was cool to be able to check out a few Vitality Blast T20 matches on a recent trip to…
Is America Ready for Cricket?
I'll spare you the curious details about the rest of my life, but for the past two weeks, things have broken down like this: the first part of the day is about the IPL and the second part of the…
Style Points
I don't need to tell you this was one of the craziest years that anyone of us can remember. And while there's no promise that 2021 will be any better, there's something symbolic about saying goodbye to 2020. While I…
Adventures in Fantasyland
They say that a man's worth can be measured by the number of fantasy sports leagues he's participated in. If so, then I've had a very rich life, indeed. Fantasy leagues give us something that previous generations of sports fans…
There’s Still No Off-Season!
A year ago today, I wrote the first of many blogs that would eventually become the cricamerica.com website. My goal was -- and still is -- to introduce, explain, and demystify the game of cricket for sports fans in this…
Kabaddi
In addition to discovering an amazing sport, there are a whole mess of other things that you're going to come across when you fall down the cricket rabbit hole. If you thought you were a worldly and informed person, you're…
Summer Vacation
Here in Boston, it's finally looking like spring. Temperatures have hit the 60s a couple of times, the Red Sox have started their season, and I finally put the snow shovel back in the basement -- hopefully -- until next…
Netflix’s Cricket Fever
Netflix has always been your go-to for watching 40 consecutive episodes of your favorite TV show from the 90s and now it's a great way to learn about cricket and its global impact. Cricket Fever, an eight-part Netflix original documentary…
Welcome!
When I first discovered cricket in 2016, I had one singular use in mind for it. It needed to be something baseball-like that I could watch all winter until spring training started up again. Now that baseball is back on…
