Why cricket’s debut at Oakland Coliseum could just be first of big things to come

OAKLAND — A loud and rowdy group of a dozen or so family and friends, decked out in orange, barely let Anand Rajamaran get a word in from the back of the owners’ suite in between chants of “Let’s go Unicorns” and outbursts over wickets, sixes and the like.

Overlooking the playing surface from what would have been the right field line for most of the Oakland Coliseum’s six decades in existence, the VIPs were merely a fraction of the more than 25,000 fans this past weekend to ring in the venue’s newest era...