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Heads up: Professional cricket is coming to Atlanta

West Indies' Chris Gayle plays a shot under the watch of India's MS Dhoni during a T20I at Sabina Park cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica, earlier this month. AP/Ricardo Mazalan

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West Indies' Chris Gayle plays a shot under the watch of India's MS Dhoni during a T20I at Sabina Park cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica, earlier this month. AP/Ricardo Mazalan
By Jim Galloway
July 17, 2017

Over at Global Atlanta, an outfit that keeps tabs on international doings, Phil Bolton has some breaking news:

The main driver behind the initiative is Jignesh "Jay" Pandya, president and CEO of Global Sports Ventures LLC, a Pennsylvania-based group that last year reached a $70 million licensing agreement with the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) to bring a franchised Twenty20 (T20) league to the U.S.

Here's hoping we're not asked to call them the Buttons. My vote will be for the Buddy Hollys. Or would it be the Buddy Hollies?

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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