Much like soccer, or football if you prefer the non-American name, cricket is a sport most Americans don’t get. The reasons are great and many, and oddly enough none of them have to do with the rules of the game. We are good at picking up new games and rules and can appreciate them for two or three weeks every four years or so, but we have a hard time adopting anything decidedly unamerican for very long. Maybe if our colonial days had persisted for another century and ended peacefully we would embrace Cricket rather than baseball.
What Americans do understand about cricket is the love of a game by true fans. All About Cricket is a blog by one of those true fans. Recently he mentions the fate of Pakistani Cricket losing international status. I won’t pretend to know the nuances of circumstances, what i do know is the political symbolism involved. I have seen it across the world where countries are in bad shape with weak governments, but the people still take a certain pride in their country because they can compete in an international game. Pakistan is a country in turmoil right now and without an outlet to bring their people together as a national entity such as sports, we could find ourselves dealing with larger Pakistani problems having nothing to do with sports.
I don’t know, if they will help the PCB, under current stands, but as every one here knows, BCCI, is the richest board in cricket, so i don’t think $40 million of losses would make a difference!!!!
Pakistan came good in the 20 20 cricket but they are terrible at football and ice dancing