Once a popular pastime in America, cricket is returning for the Twenty20 World Cup

Once a popular pastime in America, cricket is returning for the Twenty20 World Cup

Say “silly mid-off” or “deep backward square leg” or “a single to long leg” to the average American and it’ll trigger a quizzical look. Cricket — the so-called “gentlemen’s game” with complex rules, funnily worded fielding positions and matches that go on for five days — is hardly high up in the national consciousness of … Read more