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RE: Why don't Americans play cricket?
Certainly difficult for cricket with baseball already established but the viewing figures for baseball have been dropping for the past 30-years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_television_ratings
ESPN estimates that there are 30million cricket fans in the USA - most of them are 1st to 3rd generation migrants from Asia. Market forces will ultimately lead to more cricket being shown and played in the USA
World Series television ratings
The highest average Nielsen ratings for an entire World Series is tied between the 1978 Series featuring the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers and the 1980 Series featuring the Philadelphia Phillies and Kansas City Royals. Both Series, each of which went six games, averaged a national rating of 32.8 and a share of 56. However, the 1978 Series had a slightly larger total viewership (44,278,950) than 1980 (42,300,000).
The highest-rated individual game in Series history was Game 7 in 1986, as the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox at Shea Stadium in New York City.