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America Shocks the World in… Cricket?!

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For Americans who’ve never watched a cricket match before, now may be the best time to start. Because for the first time ever, Team USA has drawn global attention, after shocking the world in an upset over Pakistan last Thursday. And that feat looks all the more improbable when you learn who exactly is on this roster. So today, ESPN’s own Aishwarya Kumar explains how they pulled it off, and why this Men’s T20 World Cup tournament looks like a watershed moment for American cricket. You can stream Team USA’s Wednesday and Friday matches against India and Ireland at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Icekumar, what exactly is your relationship with cricket growing up in India?

0:07.0

So I grew up just sort of watching this sport.

0:11.0

There is not really a better way to explain it other than saying that it's like a it's almost a religion, it's a culture.

0:22.0

You wake up, you think about it, you talk about it, you experience it. There's

0:26.6

TVs on the side of the street that you stop to watch as a community. It's a very

0:30.8

communal thing that we do together.

0:33.0

You know, you don't all play the sport,

0:35.0

but you kind of know the ins and outs of it,

0:37.0

you know the ins and outs of the people that are playing it.

0:40.0

I started my path in journalism because I loved cricket so much and I wanted to be a

0:47.8

commentator one day but then I got into the sort of loved telling the stories of people, and it brought me down this path of long form storytelling.

0:58.3

So it's kind of a certain moment for me to be here and to use this medium of audio to share my love for cricket

1:05.0

but also the big story that is happening in the US right now.

1:09.1

The US National Cricket team pulling out a shocking and historic went over Pakistan in

1:14.3

this year's Cricket World Cup and it comes as business leaders such as Microsoft

1:18.4

Saute and Adela invest billions in order to bring the sport to America.

1:23.0

Can you break down what this big story is?

1:25.0

Because, you know, I'm going scrolling through the Twitter timelines,

1:28.0

Instagram feeds, and all of a sudden I'm seeing cricket headlines

1:31.0

all up and down out of nowhere.

1:33.2

Explain to me why this happened.

1:34.8

Yeah, so the U.S. beat Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup that's happening both in the U and the West Indies and it's a big deal because

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