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Tomorrow, New York’s Long Island suburbs will host a game expected to be viewed by twice as many people as the Super Bowl. Most Americans, however, don’t know the rules of the sport being played and would find it impossible to follow—unless they were watching with a very patient friend from England, or India, or Australia. 

I am talking, of course, about cricket, and this Sunday’s clash between the fierce sporting—not to mention geopolitical—rivals, India and Pakistan. Ticket prices are approaching Taylor Swift levels, and when the first ball (that’s pitch in baseball speak) is bowled (thrown) at 10:30 a.m., half a billion people around the world are expected to tune in to watch it.

This match is part of the latest push by cricketing authorities to sell this most un-American of sports—too slow, too complicated, too snobby!—on this side of the pond. It is part of this year’s World Cup—which is being held mostly in the Caribbean, with fifteen games to be played in the United Sta

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