Well, not exactly.  But it made the online edition of the Wall Street Journal when Amar Shah wrote about how "cricket is quickly becoming an American sport."   Amar says he knows of "American-born kids who can simultaneously tell you Derek Jeter's batting average and Sachin Tendulkar's run rate. They, of course, prefer Tendulkar."

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