International Cricket Stadium unveiled on Long Island. Here's a first look inside.

The Cricket World Cup is coming to New York, and the first games are just weeks away from being played on Long Island. CBS New York's Jennifer Bisram takes us inside the new cricket stadium unveiled Wednesday.

[DeepakDhabhai]

India vs Pakistan is way bigger than Superbowl

[jitendrameghwal]

Man behind counseler laughed when he said IND vs Pak is probably equal to Superbowl 😅😅 because he knows it's 10 time bigger than Superbowl 😂

[casilascrypt]

That smile Ambrose @1:32 gave when he heard being mentioned that India Vs Pakistan is like the superbowl, made my day. He (a true cricket fan), knew it, how underwhelming the statement is.

[ninj]

"India vs Pakistan" is equivalent to "Argentina vs Brazil in Fifa World Cup "
not some city level popular Super Bowl lol

[TheNish]

Just FYI, T20 is a couple hours, not days, and that's going to be appealing to a new US audience.

[sakenu]

India Vs Pakistan is already sold out. Only $2500 tickets left. Always nice to learn new sports and cultures.

[svs]

Giving my love to Curtly Ambrose, my uncle who was a big fan of West Indies cricket used to remember and recollect his famous quote to a journalist during his playing days: "Curtly talk to no man"

[someonelikeyou]

1:32 that smile from Curtly Ambrose says everything 😂😂

[AkeinPerera-jdsv]

all the sri lankans 🇱🇰 in usa will watch the first match in new york against sa

[ravsan]

Love Ambrose! No words... Intimidates with stares and talent. Absolute champion

[dilhandayananda]

To Americans Cricket has 3 Format witch is played internationaly

1.Test Cricket

Longest and Oldest Format of the sport
Played for Five Days
Both teams wears white color clothes

2.ODI
100 overs game (each team gets 50 overs to bats)
After both teams have finished batting team with most runs Win

3.T20

Each team gets 20 overs
Rest is similar to ODI
Only take 3 hours to finish

[WHATEVER_]

Cricket is a fantastic sport recently got into it, i have my ticket for T20 WorldCup 🏏🏏

[harshadfad]

To the host - watch a 10-minute cricket explainer on YouTube. It's no quantum physics, lol.

[Billyb_]

It doesn't go on for days it's only 4 hours. Americans when they hear cricket they think 5 day match

[exposeverac]

As an American i became first hooked to cricket at the 2016 WC held in India..with the tremendous finals match between England vs The West i started understanding the rules of the game i became immediately addicted...now i barely watch any of American sports the big 4 but will watch cricket....whether its the IPL the big Bash league of Australia the Caribbean league and im happy to say the American league MLC etc....And I will always remember that name Carlos Brathwaite!!!

[greatestcricketvideos]

Finally Cricket is coming to America... Been waiting for this moment for a very long time !!! Way to go

[EvilKicksMoney]

Cricket is the greatest most entertaining interesting and unique sport in the world ❤

[Faizi_]

New York is not ready what's coming there 🗽😍

[Apis]

The cricket which lasts days, is Test Cricket.... it lasts for days, because there is NO LIMIT to the set of six ball lots, called overs, bowled to the batting team.... the bowling team, has to bowl until ALL the Batting sides players, including those not in the side as batters, but bowlers themselves.... have been to the 'mound'...we call the crease, and had their turn 'at bat' and gotten out.

Because Cricket is a summer game, and whilst in some countries like Ireland, England and New Zealand, this is logical, and quite a lovely time to play.... it is also played in places exotic and tropical, like the Caribbean, and Sri Lanka... where it is a bit more balmy and hotter.... and places like India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, where it is easily what... 90o in your units... often closer to 100? .... then it is also a serious test of skill, mental strength, and fitness.

Games can feel like the most sadistic interval training ever imagined.... lasting eight hours.... then, you go to bed, and have to back up the next day.... for up to five days... with a few days off after those five... then you do it all again, up to five times, so 25 days of such frantic fast/slow/fast....or slow/fast/slow.... gameplay, in a month an half.

Also... over the course of that five days, you are likely going to be exposed in part, at least, for some period of play, to wildly different weather conditions, as humidity changes, or it rains, you stop, and go back to wet ground, etc etc. Even just the slightest changes in pressure, temperature, or moisture, can, not always, but can DRAMATICALLY effect how the field responds, the pitch especially, how you bowl, or the ball behaves, and thus, how the batting team bats.

By the end of a 5 game series, test matches lasting five days each, you have been exposed to the full gamut of scenarios, or at least a good many of them, which influence and dictate play. Some times you will have to fight, and play like it is THIS kind of Cricket, short form, 20 overs each... T20.... sometimes, you will have to consider playing for the short term, or a draw long term, sometimes you will have to dig in, and play reserved, constrained, opportunistic cricket, of the kind of 'so long and boring and slow and nothing happening' kind (which it actually IS NOT when you KNOW the game) most Americans associate with Cricket.... and this spectrum and possible vastly different passages of play, applies to both bowling and batting.

Thus you have to be a team of exceptionally fit, both in terms of sudden explosive power, and strength, AND stamina, and endurance, and mentally tough, as well as in possession of the full range of skills and tricks, for your role in the team, players. You will be facing the same. You will no limits on overs, and you will play hard, or smart, or cunning, or all of those... until both sides have had two innings. You will do that usually for five, sometimes three...(more and more three or less sadly these days.... except for the real big boys of the sport, top end of the full member test nations list) ...days.

At the end though, you will have been put to the ultimate TEST of your Cricket skills, and there is no question of who is the better team, at least for that period of time.... there is no getting lucky... even when they end in a draw... or just 'having something extra on the day'... in Test Cricket, no better team on the night, as they say. It is a TRUE TEST.

So yeah, that is why those games list so long.

But there are THREE forms of Cricket... Long.... ODI... One Day Internationals... limited to 50 overs, and one innings each... which take about a day... but are often day/night matches, begun in the afternoon and played through to late and Short form.... T20.. this cricket....where each team has just 20 overs each, and these games last a few hours at most.

It is all Cricket... just different Cricket.... T20, you have to abandon all the tactics and tricks and strategy of Test Cricket... and just go hard....which is not always conducive to a great game of Cricket, but is usually exciting.... though sometimes cringey too at moments. ODI's add a balance between both... sometimes, depending on the opening ten overs of the game which dictate the nature of it moving through the rest.... you play more like a Test, sometimes, you have go hard like T20... often times, there's periods of both...and get it wrong... like India in the most recent Cricket World Cup (which is played as ODI cricket, this is the junior to that, really, the T20 WC which is coming to NY), and you fall at the final hurdle.

All three formats, offer something, and are kind of extensions of each other.

Just pick the one you like. If you do not like Five Day games... watch T20.... tune in to the MLC games.... or get access to the IPL and BBL in India and Australia. Or you can like all of it like most Cricket fans in the big cricketing countries. If Test cricket is not your cup of tea to use an appropriate English idiom, ignore it, and watch the shorter forms .

The speed at which the stadium was constructed is amazing.