Oldest cricket club in U.S. turns 150

Baseball is America’s national pastime, but in New York, a cricket club is celebrating 150 years, thanks to the city’s large immigrant communities.

The Staten Island Cricket Club (SICC) is the oldest continuously active cricket club in the United States, with matches played there every year since it was founded by British armed forces officers and Wall Street traders in 1872.

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