An Indian-American cricket enthusiast has announced plans to build as many as eight cricket stadiums across the US at an estimated cost of 2.4 billion US dollars to professionalize the game in the country. <br/><br/>Jignesh Pandya, Chairman of Global Sports Ventures, a a Gujarat-born real estate developer in the US, has said the eight stadiums, each having a capacity of 26,000 people in New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Illinois and California, would create as many as 17,800 new jobs in the US. <br/><br/>He said Americans, are the biggest sports lovers in the world and there is a great market and ready made audience for cricket in the US. Pandya said the objective is to professionalize cricket in US by creating a league that allows athletes to compete at the highest level.