IBM has become the first Silicon Valley tech company to build a regulation cricket oval on its campus. The installation of the blue turf field is the brainchild of IBM executive Dinesh Nirmal, who hopes the sport brings “health, connection, and creativity” to employees and high school students taking part in the “Cricket and Code” program within IBM’s AI camp.
The field’s grand opening and first game are taking place today, Apr. 30, with a ceremony to be attended by Sanjay Panda, India’s consul general in San Francisco and an advocate for the Indian tech community in the Bay Area, as well as Khanh Russo, a senior policy advisor in San Jose’s mayoral office.