CRICKET IN NORTH AMERICA

Cricket has been one of the most famous games, which is played throughout the globe. No continents in our world have completely non-cricket playing countries. Cricket has attained its peak status in the Asia and Australia. In these continents, the number of cricket playing countries has increased in a consecutive manner for the past century or so. Asia leads the list with the maximum cricket playing countries whereas, North America and South America lags the list. In North America, only West Indies has enlisted its place in the international cricket council, which is the official organization for the cricket control around the globe. Thus, it should be a prime concern for the countries in North America in order to improve the cricket game in their locals and nations. The game of baseball is known as the sibling of the great game of cricket. It is because of the similar type of game play and the similar set of rules being employed in both forms of the game. It is a surprising fact that, baseball is the national sport of United States of America and still, its other form cricket has not foot printed in the ministry list. It is necessary to take the needed measures to develop cricket in such places.