https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13...-texas-history-sport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMc-gXKfLp8

Cricket is going to have an uphill battle to become anything more than a niche sport in Texas, or in the U. S. in general.

I dunno, Ken. That's what I told myself about soccer for the first 40 years of my life.

Why would anyone want to watch a game that takes all day to finish, and in some forms, several days?

I went to an English - India game in Mumbai when I was living there in 1995. I was given tickets to a Luxury Suite at Wankhede Stadium. My enduring memory is that the carpet had been just thrown in the door apparently. The chairs were folding Samsonite specials, and the food came in a paper bag. The smell of the venue was insufferable.

The game itself was boring as hell. It stopped in the middle so the players could have tea, and the Indian patrons would occasionally go crazy for no apparent reason when absolutely nothing was happening on the pitch.

Once was enough.