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Indeed, I remember when MLS was trying to get a foothold it was comparing itself to American Football. Pretty much the campaign went along the lines of "everything you love about American Football exists in Soccer, etc.". So I can definitely see Cricket going the same route, especially because...

You made some excellent points there. One thing though, is that while I agree it should not be a "Cricket vs Baseball" thing, North Americans will learn best from comparing and contrasting the two sports. I know I did, at least.

I don't think any of the hits they showed from the baseball player would have been out. They all looked like line-drives which are likely hits in baseball, so I'd imagine they would be as well in cricket as they were all great, solid contact. But yes, the skill levels were not comparable. One is...

Another good one is the Sport Science one, especially interesting that they put the cricketer in the batter's box in addition to putting the hitter in the crease. But it's funny they call the american cricketer an "international star", anyone on here heard of him? Not sure you could name anyone...

The difference is that the length of each game is more conducive to the "cream rising to the top". On every single play, there are at least 5 battles going on at the line of scrimmage between Offensive Linemen and Defensive Linemen, 3-4 battles on the outside between Wide Receivers and Defensive...

Is this serious? This comment was as thick or probably thicker than any American. Not to mention the double hat-trick of spelling and grammar mistakes.

Here in Ontario we get like 60 IPL games a year which is nice. But we get nothing of our national team which is silly. I'd really like to see this T20 league come together for the sake of our national team too. Our core is very young so they need to play as much high level cricket as they can...

Yes this needs to happen. It would be silly for it to not happen. Toronto has 2 regulation pitches, USA as an entire country has one? Plus Toronto actually has a giant population of ex-pats from cricket playing nations.

I suppose therein lies the problem, and the answer to this thread title for that matter. It's just a fundamentally different system. In NA our pros play established seasons and only play for country in world cups and the olympics which only happen every 4 years. In cricket it's all about touring...

It's possible as it makes it more like baseball, which is a proven sell here. But, I think T20 is the way to go. You don't need to get gimmicky with alternating innings, just keep T20 and have longer seasons. Major League Baseball has 162 games per season per team so they play every night...

From a guy in the biggest un-tapped cricket market in the world (North America) I don't really love this, but I can see the utility. It's just making it more like Baseball. The major thing that differentiates Cricket and NA sports that not a ton of people seem to get is not the length of the...

The people saying about the length are absolutely correct. But with T20, this game is primed to explode in Canada and the US. There's a perfect storm brewing: 1) (2013) USA (and hopefully Toronto, too) pro T20. 2) (2014) ICC World T20 expands to 16 teams, Canada (hopefully USA too) gets in and...