Yeah, there are pretty active West Indian cricket leagues in the New York area, but the problem with the sport is the aforementioned time commitment. Most of the guys who would be playing in those leagues, if there were more teams and more matches, work for a living. In the '80s and '90s, before the advent of so much electronic communication, many of the immigrant West Indians I knew were messengers, photocopier operators, typists, proofreader, telephone operators such in law and accounting firms, brokerage and investment houses, insurance companies and the like. They just didn't have the kind of time serious cricket requires. And now many of the children of those people, to the extent they haven't been beat down by the depression, have more education and more demanding jobs, so they have less time, and of course they're more assimilated, so many play the city game.
Indeed, I'll have to ask him tomorrow if I remember, but I have a business partner whose parents were Jamaican immigrants. In the ten years I've known him he's never mentioned cricket, but he's a big basketball fan and still plays some at age 58.
