Chairs as wickets, a parking lot for the field: How cricket is thriving at a Chicago suburb middle school
AURORA, Ill. - After school on Wednesdays, about 50 boys gather behind Granger Middle School in Aurora, converting a parking lot into a cricket field, sometimes using chairs as wickets.
It's not like cricket in Samina Pirzada's family's homeland of India, where the sport is played everywhere every day. But it's an experience she wondered if her son Sameer, a fourth-generation Indian American, would ever have.
"We didn't have a single opportunity like this," said Pirzada, who grew up in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago. "In a typical classroom, even in Chicago, I was the only Indian. They didn't know much about cricket except it's
