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I know what you mean and in a way it's almost insulting. Like there are nations who trully love certain sports and they take it as part of their national pride ... and then there is US. Where you wonder "why are you guys even here? Why are you taking fun from people who enjoy this game? What do you even take from this?"
Where I live we have the same situation with ice hockey - our entire nation basically stops for IIHF world hockey championship, everyone watches it and we celebrate every win. And then there is US. Which regularly wins some medal and you have a feeling that no one in the US even notices.
The US has so many different cultures spread across such a huge (YUGE) land area that it is very difficult to unite the country. It's also why half the country complains about secession but the half changes between South and Midwest.
I had no idea we had a cricket team, but I am not surprised that there is. What surprises me is that l, while I don't know a lot about cricket, I do know that Pakistan is world class and fucking good - and they lost to Americans who don't even have a national team.
It's clearly a big deal and one worth celebrating. Maybe this will help cricket bloom in America?
There has been a lot of investment into exhibition matches over the past few years, and into a Major League Cricket domestic competition which started in 2023.
There have been failed attempts at domestic leagues in the past, but MLC is a T20 competition. That's a shorter and more accessible form of the game where a match generally takes around 3 hours to complete.
That could make a difference, because it's a lot easier to keep kids interested for a few hours vs. the more traditional formats that could last anywhere between 8 hours, up to 5 days.
It's only a 1-month season though, 25 matches over the course of July. I should hopefully make it to a few of them!