The sell-out crowd at the recently concluded two T20 International matches between India and West Indies in Florida has encouraged the BCCI to mull on a long-term plan of tapping the potential cricket
The sell-out crowd at the recently concluded two T20 International matches between India and West Indies in Florida has encouraged the BCCI to mull on a long-term plan of tapping the potential cricket market in the United States, said its president Anurag Thakur.
-"We are coming out with a five-10 years program. I will be sending a team soon to the United States to look at the potential venues where we can have international matches,-" Thakur said.
Thakur is part of a delegation of Indian MPs, who are in the US to meet their American counterparts and administration officials.
-"We are very serious about this (American) market. Cricket fans, which are in large numbers in the United States, have been deprived of live matches in the past several years,-" Thakur said in response to a question.
Referring to the recently held T20 matches between India and West Indies in Florida, Thakur said the experiment was very successful.
-"I think, if you could engage more countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England and others, we have a large population in this area, but Indians have to play a very important role. Without India nothing can happen. It has to be India-centric. And we can take it to the next level,-" Thakur said referring to the Indian diaspora in the US.
“For us, the US and Canada are very important markets,-" Thakur said.
