Everything Americans Need to Know About Cricket

Once upon a time, in 1751, New Yorkers actually ventured to what is now the Fulton Fish Market to watch a cricket match between the New York XI and a visiting London XI. This was not an eccentric afternoon that everyone agreed to forget. Cricket was firmly embedded in New York life, to the extent that modern Manhattan has been constructed directly on top of several former cricket grounds, as if the city dealt with the situation by building over it and changing the subject.