Cricket Anyone?

I visited my friend Mark, who works at the University of Denver's Anderson Academic Commons (the library), Wednesday morning to watch a World Cup cricket match between the U.S. and South Africa. The game was played at Kensington Oval in Barbados, and South Africa won the match by 18 runs. However, last week the U.S. beat highly favored Pakistan, which generated a lot of publicity on the local television news, with much speculation about whether or not cricket was about to become more popular here in the U.S. Of course, once the Americans started losing again, the publicity stopped. And watching the match between the U.S. and South Africa, I couldn't help but notice that all the commercials were geared toward Indian Americans, some of them actually in Hindu. And so, I suspect cricket is not about to become a major sport here in the U.S. anytime soon, although still popular with a significantly large niche of fans, especially those with ties to the British Commonwealth. And by the way, the photograph above is of Mark, transported to Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, through the magic of Photoshop.