Search google maps for "Wentzville USA"
And then zoom out.
It will point to a small town in the middle of nowhere.
And here is what's happening in this small town.
The IT engineers from India who work here in the local firms, have gotten together to create a cricket setup for their kids.
They have hired,
1 - A certified level 3 coach from Australia
2 - A Certified level 3 coach from England
3 - And three coaches from Ranji trophy. One of them has coached Tendulkar.
These guys have spent over US$700,000 to buy the ground, imported cricket pitch mats, equipment, and 5 batting cages from UK.
The 50 odd kids that you see here are all local born Americans of the Indian origin.
And Gosh, I wish if you guys could see how do these kids bat in the nets and in matches? You'd feel like everyone is a small Tendulkar.
The footwork, the backlift, the head position, the stroke making, the focus, and the dedication,.... absolutely solid.
They are getting a professional training, coaching, diet, exercise and cricket teaching.
And again, this is happening in the middle of nowhere.
Imagine what's happening in the major American cities like Chicago, New York, Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego etc?
If I am not too off, you should be able to find at least 1000 registered cricket teams and very active cricket clubs in USA.
I won't be surprised to see that in near future, more domestic cricket is played in USA than in England.
So these kind of training camps are running almost everywhere in the U.S., and it looks like within 20 years, USA will produce a cricket team that will be quite tough to beat. And almost all team members will be American born Indians.
THIS is what you call dedication and love of the game. PROPER PLANNING AND RESOURCES PUT TO WORK WITH INTELLIGENT AND FUTURISTIC VISION.
There is not a SINGLE Pakistani kid in this setup, even though enrollment is open to all.
The question is, did BCCI do anything to promote this in Wentzville USA?
The answer is, Zilch.
So to answer the OP, the key to BCCI's success is this great amount of enthusiasm (up to the point of insanity) of cricket in Indians.
The example above is an Indicator.
We see that away from home, yet these Indians who are more academically inclined and they are in professions OTHER than cricket, have created a cricket heaven for themselves and their future generations.
And when you compare this with the recent crowd turnout in the Pak vs Bangla T20 series, you can clearly feel the interest in cricket is greatly lost among Pakistani public. I mean, even BBL looks to have better crowd turnout.
The question then is, why Pakistani public has lost so much interest in cricket?
The answer is, we hardly have any Pakistani superstars and megastar cricketers in the international scene anymore.
And this crazy fan following has also helped BCCI to tap on the business aspect of it, and earn billions of dollars. This gives BCCI a clear advantage on PCB.
So, if PCB wants to attempt to fix this, they MUST start promoting a very well organized cricket at school level.
Indian school level cricket is all where the magic starts to happen.
PCB needs to cut the cost or pork barrel projects and the huge payroll, perks, lavish meetings etc for the 900+ employees, and invest in Jr. cricket.
Train the kids and pick the top talent and turn them into international level megastars.
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