There is a lot of cricket in southwestern Connecticut, says Cathryn J Prince, writing in Darien.patch.com. She catches up with some of the locals who are fascinated by the sport and gives us a glimpse into life on the pitches of Fairfield County.
Peter Smith, 14, started playing in sixth grade after watching Lagaan, a sports-themed Bollywood movie, in school for a unit on India. I ve always been interested in British sports, Peter said. Smith immersed himself in the sport by watching YouTube. Then he organised a few foreign-born students kids from India, England, and Guyana to play at recess. At home in Oxford he plays on a homemade pitch and travels hours to find teams to play on....There are many reasons players play. Part of the attraction for [Neil] Kimberly is the intellectual challenge. There is certainly a degree of fascination with it. It has a certain mystique with it all these players dressed in white, Kimberly said. There is also an assumption that it s a slow moving game. But it s an interesting combination of baseball and chess.