Eisenhower Park, the weedy patch where the batters and bowlers of Long Island play their rec games, is being transformed to host the biggest event in the sport, Simon Webster writes.
Khizar works as a chauffeur, and he had driven his black Tesla to the park. He has lived on Long Island—now in Valley Stream—since 2015, having emigrated from Pakistan at the age of eighteen. “The day I migrated, I thought, Cricket is gone,” he said. After two months, he saw some kids playing tape ball—a crude version of the sport—in a park in Bay Shore. They told him about Long Island United, which has four teams and doubles as a social club.
“It can’t be hamburgers and hot dogs,” Keas said. Hard hats were produced and yellow vests donned. Will Madison, whose company, Arena Americas, is supplying the stadium parts, led the group up narrow stairways that floated dozens of feet off the ground, and into the partially built stands. “Everything’s designed so a low-grade hurricane can blow through and we’re still O.K.,” he said.
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