Cricket stars to visit Brooklyn festival trying to grow the sport By Greg Joyce

One of the world’s biggest sports that has largely been untapped in the United States is coming to Brooklyn — at least for a day.

The borough will play host to CricFest on Saturday at MatchPoint NYC in Gravesend, where an expected crowd of nearly 1,500 fans will come together for a celebration of all things cricket from 4-7 p.m.

The interactive event includes batting cages, a virtual reality cricket simulator, Indian street food vendors and two special guests flying in from India: cricket legend Anil Kumble and current star Harbhajan Singh.

“The event is quite a spectacle … really just a celebration of cricket,” said Ipsita Dasgupta, the president of Hotstar International, the company hosting the event and the exclusive live-streaming partner of Indian Premier League (IPL) games. “If you look at the community across the U.S., we started speaking to different cricket academies, associations, organizations. We realized there’s this huge unmet demand for events, activities, content and just a lot of excitement for people to get together.”

The IPL starts in April on Hotstar, which offers commentary for the games in six different languages. Saturday’s event will begin the unofficial countdown to the opening of the season.

Bhaji will call white amricans Monkey OR polar bear ?
Kumble will bounce !

GROWING THE SPORT IN THE USA - WHAT THE HELL DEM SMOKING.

CRICKET IN THE USA IS GOING NOWHERE.

MAKE MONEY OFF THE IMMIGRANTS WHO STILL FOLLOW IT. THAT IS ALL THAT CAN BE DONE.

we trying here, south of the border with all dem Immigrant cricket parents chirrun