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Forget the IPL, the World Cup and just about everything – cricket might be on the verge of finally going global, thanks to none other than The Man in the White House. The news that Barack Obama is currently immersed in Joseph O’Neill’s cricket-soaked Netherland (as revealed in an interview with the New York Times) should be giving all ICC members reason to cheer and be merry. This is perhaps the first documented evidence of a US President reading about cricket. All right, it is not exactly a strictly “cricket cricket” book but heck, who knows, it might just hook the US President, who has, after all, been showing some interest in cricket. Remember the photograph of him daintily swinging a willow in the company of a certain Brian Lara?