Dr. Adequate writes:
Carthage v. the Roman Republic, 47 B.C. Game abandoned due to elephants on the pitch. In vengeance, the Romans would sow the field with salt and decapitate the Phoenician XI during the Third Punic War.
That certainly would be a surprise. But you're 1891 years out. The first cricket international was the U.S.A. vs Canada, played at a New York cricket club.
Cricket was bigger than baseball in the U.S. until around the time of the civil war. It was introduced in colonial times. George Washington and his troops played it during the war of independence.
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