Cricket World Cup, international cricket championship held at four-year intervals that is the premier contest in one-day cricket and one of the most-watched sporting events in the world.
But the premier contest, also in June, is the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contestt in Weiser (pronounced "Weezer"), Idaho, which draws up to 25,000 people and around 350 competitors seeking prizes of up to $1,400.
Here, next to a repair shop on Classon Avenue in Crown Heights, is the fenced-in lot where the band, Despers USA, has spent a month practicing feverishly for the annual Steel Band Panorama Competition, the premier contest for steel drummers in New York, to be held on Saturday.
O'Brien has not only won the past five editions of his country's premier contest, worth €1.25m (£1.1m) this time, and eight in all, but has provided three clean sweeps, most recently when Cape Blanco beat stablemates Midas Touch and Jan Vermeer 12 months ago.
Edinburgh, who reached the semi-finals of Europe's premier contest last season, are without a point from four outings and are yet to register a try.
In contrast, Lennon enjoys near untouchable status, with Celtic dominating domestically and preparing for a second successive season in the rarefied atmosphere of Europe's premier contest.
