BBC SPORT | Cricket | Pro cricket hits the USA. I just read “Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball“, Ed Smith’s book about Baseball and Cricket. Very interesting. Then I see this stoy on the BBC web site. I really think that our American cousins might take to Twenty20 – it is perfect for the American audience. Heaven help us that the US might win the World Cup in 2019 (which will be in Twenty20 format by then…)