The Compton Cricket Club (CCC), or the "Homies and the Popz", is a cricket club based in Compton, Los Angeles County, California, USA. The CCC is the only all American-born exhibition cricket team. The CCC has toured to the UK 4 times (last time in 2001) and most recently to Australia in February 2011.
The night of the photo shoot for an ad campaign featuring the CCC modelling the new National English Soccer uniform in LA. which was held on Super Bowl Sunday 2009, one of the team members was an innocent bystander in a drive-by shooting in Compton and died. This Ad campaign featured in British GQ magazine on a 2 page spread in 2009. That same night the future manager for the team's historic February 2011 Australian tour was at the photoshoot meeting the team for the very first time.
Read more about Compton Cricket Club: Background and Mission of The Team, Tour Highlights
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