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Al Jazeera
Melinda Farrell

Meet a baseball guy making cricket fun in the US ahead of the T20 World Cup

Jimmy O'Brien will take his analytical skills from the baseball podcast in his Manhattan studio to television broadcast at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 [Courtesy: Jomboy Media]

New Jersey, United States – On a cold March day in Jersey City, the warehouse looks unremarkable from the outside. Surrounded by a mesh fence under a noisy flyover bridge, there is little of note in the bleakly industrial area apart from the cannabis shop next door. But inside is the world of a sports-loving child’s fantasies: a cavernous room transformed into a field of play.

On the menu is Ball in Play, a meld of cricket and baseball, where players wear bucket hats and bubblegum-coloured kits. The walls are adorned with team banners bearing preposterous names: The Woogas, Love Yas, McFlurry Power and Forgotten Rotten.

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