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Cricket bridges gaps in communities in New York
By Will last year, at the end of June, No Comments; be the first!
Talking of New York, I put this up on Beyond the Test World an hour ago. Nice little story.
No Comments »Police Officer Jeff Thomson from the NYPD first got in contact with us a couple of weeks ago, and since then his force have staged a family day to launch their season.
But it is cricket’s global appeal that can forge ties locally. With the game so popular in south asia and the Caribbean, those two communities in New York who sometimes struggle to integrate are given a vehicle to do just that.
“The Muslim community is not a community we had great outreach to in the past,” said Deputy Inspector Amin Kosseim, who runs special projects for the department’s Community Affairs Bureau.
And so the police decided to experiment with cricket, a game with a huge following across the Caribbean and South Asia. The response has cut across community lines. Tuesday’s opening match pitted the SuperStars — made up largely of players from Guyana — against the KnightRiders, a predominantly Pakistani team.
Where and how to watch the Ashes in New York
By Will last year, at the end of June, 5 Comments »
Sadly, I don’t have the answer. This is a plea that someone might know. New York must have hundreds of cricket fans and Nancy needs your very urgent help:
How about watching the 2009 Ashes series (well, parts of it) live on TV at a bar, or other public place, in NYC? Daily coverage begins at 6 am, our time – know of anyplace that’s making a special effort?
Hurry – she hasn’t much time to plan her days off before the series of all series gets underway…
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