While I enjoy the ambition, if pro or even semi pro soccer over the past 15-20 years, since the CSL had a good 5 or 6 year run from the late 80's into the early 90's disbanded couldn't make a go of it, not sure how Cricket could either. That is, if Cricket's planning things on a widespread scale from the staart (as it appears they are from the article, citing the NHL numerous times and having it to all elelmentry schools within the next couple years).
Cricket first has to be understood by enough people to be in demand as a spectator sport or on TV to drive sponsors, and if that's somehow accomplished, its also not the most fan friendly /tv spectator sport for the North American sport culture. Those are significant barriers that soccer and a national soccer league don't have, yet that sport couldn't create a league that would deliver any sort of financial return, for almost 2 decades.
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