Does Texas really need a $500m cricket stadium?
(The Guardian Sports News)

The Lone Star state - like much of America - has a growing south Asian population. Some see enough interest to justify massive investment The city of Allen, a northern suburb of Dallas, occupies a special place in the history of sports stadia: it was the instigator of what once was dubbed a high school football stadium arms race. In 2012, it unveiled Eagle Stadium, the 18,000 seat, $60m home of the Allen High School Eagles. Not too many years later nearby McKinney opened a stadium for its own high schools worth $70m.Lately, Allen once again has taken center stage in a curious stadium proposal, one that until recently formed part of an ambitious multi-billion-dollar plan to spread cricket across the US. Continue reading...