Professional Twenty20 cricket is coming to the United States for the first time. And it has its initial home. The new Major League Cricket league, scheduled for a 2022 debut with six franchises across ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – George Washington played it, Babe Ruth gave it a shot and had a blast, and Harry Wright was a star player before becoming manager of the famed Cincinnati Red Stockings. The sport ...

Jimmy O’Brien pauses and then slows down his voice to highlight the difference between commentating on cricket compared to baseball. “There. That. Is. A. Huge. Wicket. That. Is. Going. To. Change. The ...

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has shown this season that he is worth the $700 million contract he was awarded ahead of his move to his new team. Baseball's modern-day unicorn has been ...

For some books one author isn't enough. Evander Lomke (baseball, the Bronx) and Martin Rowe (cricket, ex-U.K.) have collaborated to explain the world's two most popular bat-based games to nonfans, ...

To the average baseball fan the sport of cricket must seem like an alien concept. With its white colored clothing, breaks for lunch and tea, some games lasting five days, it is no wonder that cricket ...

The cricket T20 World Cup was the best baseball I had watched in years. There are seven things I wish baseball would take from cricket to come out of the 20th century. These won't fix baseball, but ...

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, ...

In the late 18th century, when Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies were desperately battling for their independence, soldiers in the rag-tag Continental Army would play various games while ...