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2009 National Championship – the Beginning !

Montgomery College (MD) Takes Home The Chanderpaul Trophy March 24th, 2009 A day like this was made for cricket, beautiful blue skies with clouds of white and temperatures around 78 degrees. The Finals of the first American College Cricket Spring Break Championship got underway for the Chanderpaul Trophy in Lauderhill,...

The NY Times coverage of the first American College Cricket Spring Break Championship

The NY Times story on the 2009 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship was the biggest mainstream media story on cricket in the US since Don Bradman toured the USA in the 1930’s.  The players at the first Championship felt they had claimed more than the three-foot trophy for the...
Posted 07 Mar 2010 | 2009,CHAMPIONSHIPS,NEWS | 1 Comment

Cricket’s real Field of Dreams

The Central Broward Regional Park (CBRP), including the stadium and its side fields, cost about US$70 million to build. From the beginning the 110-acre facility generated a lot of opposition to the spending of so much public money on a cricket-purpose facility. For this reason the facilities were designed and...
Posted 03 Dec 2009 | 2009,CRICKET TV,NEWS,OTHER STUFF | 1 Comment