John Norton, a retired police officer from Long Island, sat in a folding chair and watched his grandson’s Little League game in East Meadow on Wednesday.
“I saw the stadium from the street,” Mr. Norton said.
“I don’t know the first thing about cricket, but I guess it’s going to be pretty crazy over there.”The stadium he saw — the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium — seemed to have popped up almost overnight.
Now it sits on one edge of the 930-acre Eisenhower Park, a massive — if temporary — cricket stadium that was built in sections, like a giant erector set, over the last 100 days.
The stadium in East Meadow, which can hold 34,000 spectators, will be inaugurated with an exhibition match on Saturday between India and Bangladesh.
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