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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Philip Marcelo

A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC's suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities

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A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month.

But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side of Long Island’s Eisenhower Park, budding young cricketers were already busy batting, bowling and fielding on a makeshift pitch.

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