US Cricket Team One Win From Reaching First World Cup

US Cricket Team One Win From Reaching First World Cup
U.S. cricket players walk off the pitch after beating Singapore by 132 runs in a cricket World Cup qualifier match in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on July, 12, 2022. KB Mpofu/AP Photo
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BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe—It’s almost natural that Vatsal Vaghela’s first exposure to cricket in California was at a baseball field, where cricketers had to wait for the baseball players to finish and leave.

Cricket gave birth to baseball, though the offspring quickly eclipsed the parent as the summer pastime for Americans. But step back for a minute there, baseball, because Vaghela and his teammates on the United States cricket team aim to reach their own kind of World Series this week.