And where will they build this?

From Curbed:

Development company Global Sports Ventures is making a play to woo Americans over to the traditional English game. They’re teaming up with the real estate firm JLL to build professional cricket stadiums in eight U.S. cities in the hopes of establishing the sport as a new professional league on par with the NFL or MLB. The stadium developments alone have an estimated cost of $2.4 billion.

The teams and cricket stadiums are likely to be located in California, Washington, DC., Georgia, Florida, Texas, Illinois, and New York or New Jersey—regions where cricket “already has an established following,” according to WXIA in Atlanta.

The league is set to launch in 2020—an ambitious timeline considering the build-out.

Politicians simply love unnecessary stadiums

From the NY Post:

Queens Councilman Ruben Wills is going to bat for cricket.

Wills wants to create a task force to promote the sport — the bat-swinging cousin of baseball — and hopes to build a cricket stadium in his borough.

The councilman says cricket is a hit in the culturally diverse district he represents and believes it could give the entire city an economic boost.

“We have the largest and fastest-growing population of Indo-Caribbean and south Asian populations. Everywhere in the world cricket is the number two sport, only behind [soccer],” Wills told The Post.

“We want to make sure we can introduce this into mainstream New York and we also want to look at the end game of creating a cricket stadium in New York,” he added.

His bill, introduced Tuesday, would create a 10-member task force to study “health, social and economic impacts” of the sport in New York City.

The task force also would explore use of park land for more cricket fields in the city.

Cricket players forced to bring their own playing surface

From the NY Times:

The police have also had to make other adaptations to cricket to fit New York conditions. For example, a strip of rolled and immaculately trimmed grass is normally used as the playing surface on which a ball bounces before it is struck by a batsman. But that strip is expensive and rare in this country. So the league’s matches, played at Spring Creek Park in Brooklyn and Kissena Park in Queens, use a substitute: a heavy, fibrous mat that is staked to the ground before a game.

You mean the Parks Department isn't doing its job? I'm shocked...