June 11, Hemang Desai, a professor of accounting for the Cox School of Business at SMU Dallas (and an avid cricket fan), for a piece giving perspective to the recent successes of Team USA based in Dallas and cricket’s rise in popularity overall. Published in the Dallas Morning News under the heading Upset win heralded America’s presence on the world cricket stage: https://tinyurl.com/34stk6vx
Thursday marked one of the greatest triumphs in American sports. USA Cricket upset Pakistan in the Group Stage of the International Cricket Council Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup at Grand Prairie Stadium. To American cricket fans, this is reminiscent of the “Miracle on Ice” when the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union during the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The unheralded U.S. squad, comprising mostly semiprofessional cricketers, defeated a mighty Pakistani national team, who were finalists in the previous T20 World Cup in 2022. Even the NBC Nightly News covered the event.
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