ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Cricket is the world’s second most popular sport — and soon, matches will be coming to metro Atlanta with the construction of the state’s first cricket stadium.

Selig Enterprises, a real estate developer creating a mixed-use community in LaGrange, sold 45 acres of the project to DAS Cricket Academy and the NJ Blackcaps, a professional cricket club in New Jersey. Now, that land will be home to the LaGrange Cricket Stadium.

“With its mild, year-round climate and proximity to the Atlanta airport, LaGrange serves as the perfect location for cricket’s next expansion,” DAS Cricket Academy founder Siddharth Das said in a statement. “We look forward to introducing this sport to a growing audience in the greater Atlanta region and showing why more than 2.5 bill

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