Opinion: Can Satya Nadella Sell Cricket In America?
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When I first heard that a Texas billionaire was bankrolling a new cricket league in America, my first thought was, "Oh, no ... I'm not falling for that one again." Almost exactly 15 years ago, I wrote a story for Time Magazine about a wealth-management tycoon from Mexia, Texas, who had the same idea - and I, having grown up playing the sport in India, the country of my birth, fervently hoped he would establish it in the country of my choice.
Then Allen Stanford got convicted for fraud, and I assumed it would be another 110 years, the length of his initial jail sentence, before anybody took up that task again.
But now here's Ross Perot Jr. of Dallas stepping up to the crease - as you do in cricket, and not the plate, as you do in baseball. One of the country's largest independent property developers, Perot is co-owner of Texas Super Kings, which will play Major League Cricket's inaugural game against the Los Angeles Knight Riders, in a converted ballpark in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 13.
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