Windies legends to play T20 matches in New York

New York, Aug 2: Legendary batsman Garfield Sobers is among a group of former West Indies cricketers who will participate in two Twenty20 cricket matches here.

Some of the legends who are joining Sobers to play the matches include former openers Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, Carl Hooper, Courtney Walsh, Richie Richardson, Gus Logie, Deryck Murray, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Darren Ganga, reported CMC.

The greats will play two matches against a New York All-Star XI at Idlewild Park in Queens.

Greenidge has teamed up with promoter Pooran Ramnanan to bring the legends to New York.

Ramnanan said the legends were also expected to participate in a coaching exercise with young players from New York Public Schools Athletic League.

Why not play the match at a venue in the Caribbean where you could get a larger turnout? A lot of cricket fans in the region have never seen some of these players play in real life and so it would have been great.

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Why not play the match at a venue in the Caribbean where you could get a larger turnout? A lot of cricket fans in the region have never seen some of these players play in real life and so it would have been great.
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Because there is an attempt to grow the game of cricket in the US. Along with rumours of playing a few CPL games next year in Florida, Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar are currently in the process of trying to set up a T20 tournament to be played in the US at some point next year featuring the likes of Glenn McGrath, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis, Adam Gilchrist, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Brian Lara and Wasim Akram.

Quote:Warne and Tendulkar have targeted the US – which boasts a sizeable subcontinental ex-pat population – as the first in a number of traditionally non-cricket regions they are looking to introduce their roadshow, with Hong Kong and Singapore also on the hit-list.

“At this stage we’ve booked three stadiums, (Chicago’s) Wrigley Field, (New York’s) Yankee Stadium and (Los Angeles’) Dodger Stadium,” Warne told News Ltd. “We’re going to have Bollywood theme nights and it’s all shaping up pretty well.

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/shane-war...2015-06-22

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Because there is an attempt to grow the game of cricket in the US.
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Good luck with the growth thing.

Now there might be money to be made playing T20 in the USA....................................