Seems doomed to failure. Football/soccer has had some success because it's a fast, exciting game that's easy to follow. Cricket occupies the same ecological ni

Seems doomed to failure. Football/soccer has had some success because it's a fast, exciting game that's easy to follow. Cricket occupies the same ecological niche in the Commonwealth that baseball does in America, a slow moving bat-and-ball sport with a long tradition. The problem is that it looks a bit like baseball except it's totally different, and takes real effort to understand. Kids in America have played soccer forever, so you've got that foothold. Cricket will always be foreign.