Construction underway for new cricket pitches in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Fresno is expanding entree to a unsocial sport.

Construction for 2 caller cricket pitches is presently underway.

City leaders gathered Wednesday greeting for a groundbreaking ceremonial astatine Jaswant Singh Khalra's vicinity park.

The dual-use facilities volition beryllium built astatine the southwest country of the parkland on Brawley and Clinton Avenues.

Another volition beryllium located astatine the City's Regional Sports Complex astatine the northwest country of North and West avenues.

The metropolis plans to implicit the fields wrong a mates of months.

Cricket is simply a crippled of bat-and-ball with distant similarities to baseball.

It's 1 of the fastest increasing sports successful the satellite and volition beryllium reintroduced astatine the 2028 Summer Olympics successful Los Angeles.