Driven by demographic shifts, the sport is growing at the municipal level
There’s no end to the number of sports that have been brought to the USA through immigration, such as soccer, field hockey, and rugby. And that’s not even taking into consideration other popular fixtures on the competition calendar like wrestling and track and field. The fact is, one would be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of mainstream sports that do not have roots outside of North America.
The latest field sport to make headlines—and one of the fastest growing—is cricket. Driven by demographic shifts, cricket is expanding in popularity to the point that cricket-specific facilities are becoming necessary. (The Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium, a large county park in Lauderhill, Fla., hosts the only cricket stadium in the United States. And while that stadium regularly fields play for other sports as well, its presence is a testament to the sport’s rise in this country.)