What is the problem with USA cricket?
In his piece for Sport 360, Peter Miller mulls over how mismanagement and politics has left USA cricket languishing in the lower rungs of the World Cricket League
ESPNcricinfo staff
04-Apr-2015
Writing for Sport 360, Peter Miller mulls over how mismanagement and politics has left USA cricket languishing in the lower rungs of the World Cricket League, and feels they have miles to go before the national team gains local support
This is the issue that cricket faces in America. If the sport is to grow beyond the niche following it has amongst immigrant communities it needs to develop an American identity, and despite being in existence since 1965 USACA has singularly failed to do that. Instead cricket remains "an underground sport", a term that was used to describe the sport by a senior USACA official in 2009. The reasons for cricket's stagnation is as much to do with USACA as anything else. They have been suspended from the ICC twice in the last decade and they are on the brink of being booted out again.