A sizeable Jamaican population in Lauderhill and a pre-Independence Day holiday crowd should be exploited to make the games a success

The latest effort to sell the game to America is on. What's the mood at the top levels of USA Cricket?

If the game is ever to take off in America, Twenty20 is most likely the way to go

It wasn't quite the home-run derby that the Americans had been led to expect, but Daniel Vettori and Kumar Sangakkara hope cricket's Florida experiment will continue

Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand captain, is determined to win the second Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka in Lauderhill so that his team can "finish a long season on a high note"

Nuwan Kulasekara found the perfect lines and lengths for the slow and low track that the USA has dished out, and ripped the heart out of New Zealand's batting

The slow and low pitch didn't make for exciting cricket and New Zealand grafted hard to reach 120 for 7. It proved more than enough as Sri Lanka struggled to fold up for 91

USA Cricket has dared to dream big. In a country where baseball is the game of the people, initiating the masses is going to be a massive task

It is tempting to look at these matches - two Twenty20 internationals between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, being played in the USA - as precisely the reason why tournaments like IPL prosper