Ujjwal Vinnakota, a Lewisville resident, was selected to play in the National Cricket League with the Chicago Cricket Club.

The National Cricket League is a Dallas-based professional cricket league that features matches lasting about 90 minutes. The league’s aim is to bring Americans a shorter and quicker style of cricket with more action as the sport grows in the region.

For most of the sport’s history, dating back to the British Empire, matches could last weeks at a time.

Recently, the sport has made an attempt to modernize its length, especially in the U.S., bringing it down to about three hours in Major League Cricket and 90 minutes in NCL.

“Cricket in America is growing at a tremendous pace, and I’m grateful to contribute to that growth while representing Lewisville and Denton Cou

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