Stumped at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in New York - Stumped, BBC World Service

Stumped heads on the road to New York city to see how America is embracing cricket.

Stumped is on the road as Alison Mitchell heads to New York where the men's ICC T20 World Cup is taking place.

The US are co-hosting the tournament for the very first time, with matches being played in Dallas, Florida and New York. She explores the history of cricket in New York, what people think of the sport in America and builds up to one of the greatest rivalries in sport: India against Pakistan.

US journalist Peter Della Penna tells us about the history of cricket in United States and the challenges it has faced and he looks to the future of the game in the country and the legacy of this World Cup.

Reporter Charlotte Swift joins Alison and attended the first match which took place at the Nassau County Cricket Ground on Long Island. She hears from fans from across the world on their excitement that a World Cup is being staged in New York.

Plus, she speaks to US-born umpire Bryan R Caine who has become a social media star showing his love of cricket.

Charlotte also travels to Queens to speak to the NYPD cricket team. It’s made up of officers from across the city and they tell her about how they found cricket and the importance of a shared love of the game despite their varying backgrounds.

00:00 Introduction
01:34 Reporter Charlotte Swift with fans on their excitement for the World Cup being staged in New York and US-born umpire Bryan R Caine
07:30 Alison chats to US journalist Peter Della Penna on US cricket's challenges
13:19 Charlotte chats to co-founder of NYPD cricket team Ahmed Chohan
18:23 Officer Singh with Charlotte on moving from India to the States

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[AoptimisticNihilist]

Aww that dad getting so emotional to share cricket with his kid ❤

[EvilKicksMoney]

Cricket is the greatest most entertaining sport in the world ❤🏏

[vmrao]

The ICC has badly messed up the seating at the New York stadium and made fans like me angry. My friends and I bought the premium tickets for the Sri Lanka vs South Africa game and for the India vs Ireland game at the ICC auction which showed premium ticket holders would be seated closer to the ground compared to the standard ticket holders. When the tickets were issued later we were surprised to see that our premium seats were much farther out compared to the standard ticket seats. It looks like ICC did a "bait and switch" and made premium ticket holders like me very angry and unhappy. At a minimum ICC should have communicated this change of seating and give the customer a refund if they did not like the new premium seating arrangement. BBC should investigate this issue and bring it to ICC's attention. ICC needs to issue a refund to premium ticket holders like us for the price difference. We will continue to push to get this resolved.

[hrishi-s]

30 million dollars to build the stadium, but just one game is going to bring 86 million dollars to organizers. That's India Vs Pakistan.

[Tazza]

T20 Cricket is the perfect sport for America. 2.5-3 hours per game. Plenty of natural breaks in the game for advertising and a lot more entertaining than baseball. Amazed it hasn't taken off before now.

[nikhil]

Peter della Penna is very passionate for cricket development in USA.
I read his tweet on x

[ruwanfonseka]

It's a good start that has been long overdue to have an International Cricket series being played in New York, USA. Glad that I was able to be part of this historic event and be able to witness the play between the Team Sri Lanka vs Team South Africa on Monday 3, 2024 live at the Nassau International Cricket Stadium. The ICC T20 event in USA has helped to popularize the sport among many Americans who have never watched a game of Cricket before the ICC T20 games that are happening in America and also that Team USA won matches during this tournament in USA also will give the sport in America..

[devdatta]

Sometimes Cricket become more interesting than Soccer

[Nawanda]

Well spoken locals, good interview. 

BTW BBC, T20 is a white ball game. Change the graphic,

Thanks.

[sidp]

Loved this video - something different and informative and very well created - thanks BBC

[willienelsongonzalez]

As a Limey, I prefer baseball! Damn fascinating that cricket is slowly inching forwards in the USA nonetheless! 😁

[anandhbalakrishnan]

There is serious baseball talent in America terms of hitting power, fielding skills and pitching speed. There are guys that can hit 80-90 mph pitching speeds in club baseball. They are impossible to hit.
Working with the MLB to get players on loan would be a fantastic step.

[mahmudulshibly]

Welcome cricket as second Most popular sports in world

[shaikhhar]

ICC should have broadcasted and aggressively promoted these games live on YouTube ( in US region) . It would go long way in making cricket on the map in the US. I feel they missed big time

[Gustaf]

The US-Pakistan got my son and I (Americans with no cricket experience) intrigued so we drove 18 hours to Florida for US-Ireland. Despite a 5 hours window of glorious sun between rain, there seemed to be zero interest in actually playing cricket. Three hours after the scheduled start it started raining again and the match was cancelled. To an American who is used to baseball games restarting minutes after the rain stops, this was frustrating. They had us hooked. All they had to do was actually play cricket. If that is how cricket values its fans (and curious Americans) screw it. There are plenty of sports to follow that play when the sun shines.

[SheksgemWhepdo]

This is gonna bring a lot of 💰🤑💰 especially matches involving Australia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and etc.

[vishnumohannair]

Nobody looks down on cricket played in USA. 90% of amateur cricket played around the world are played on back alleys not grounds

[FictionChannelIN]

Did I hear it right? They said Aakashvani?

[b]

Is the world cup on free to view over there?

[harindersingh]

British should be grateful to india for this