Can T20 World Cup finally make cricket a hit in the USA?
by Malik Ouzia
Jun 01, 2024
3 minutes
When, on a 2020 visit to India, the then US president Donald Trump stood before a crowd of 100,000 at the Narendra Modi Stadium and butchered the name of the nation’s favourite cricketing son, the impression was not exactly of an America primed for invasion by leather and willow.
Little more than four years on from the “Soo-chin Tendul-kerr” blip, however, and as both Modi and Trump seek populist re-election, is on the Stateside campaign trail, trying to woo its way into
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