James Schneider of The Sun Chronicle wrote of Wrentham's Eagle Cricket Club's efforts to promote cricket in Massachusetts.  

Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, yet that's how Americans think of it. Unlike soccer, this country makes no attempt to learn the other world sport, no half-hearted attempt to pretend it even cares.

The Eagle Cricket Club in Wrentham is trying to change that.

It might come as a surprise, but there are Cricket Clubs in the United States - thousands of them in fact. But right now they're made up almost entirely of immigrants.

"If we all retire the sport would die (in America)," said ECC vice-president Ravi Rao. "The whole idea for us is, 80 years from now, what should we do?"

Binit Shah, 11, of Medfield practices his fielding.

"Over the years, most of (US) cricket has been expatriates, but we need to do more than that, we need to go into these schools and get American-born kids into cricket," said USA Cricket board member and Northeast representative Tony Gilkes.

So the ECC, which has been located in Wrentham since 2003, decided to do something no cricket club in Massachusetts has ever done before: hold a summer camp for kids.

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