A stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in Eisenhower Park on Long Island that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month -- the T20 World Cup.
A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising on Long Island that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month.But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side of Eisenhower Park, budding young cricketers were already busy batting, bowling and fielding on a makeshift pitch.The T20 World Cup will be the first major international cricket competition in the U.S.
"When we started more than a decade ago, there was no understanding of cricket, at least at the youth level," said the Merrick resident, who started the academy to teach his two American-born children the sport he grew up playing in Guyana in South America. "Now they’re building a stadium here.
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