Cricket England is tired

While the Ashes, one of the most important competitions in the sport, take place, the English do not seem to be able to compete with the rising power in this sport Worth of every team in psl : India. The inventors of this discipline have to face the enthusiasm of players who play in a professional championship whose salaries are close to those practiced in football. English cricket officials would never admit it but in most other countries, the test matches [the longest form of cricket, which is played in five days] may not survive. The rise of India has changed everything. The sub-continent now generates 70% of global cricket revenues and does not hesitate to exercise the power and influence that goes with it. Cricket has always been a vector of national affirmation. The elite of the Victorian English considered it as part of the civilizing mission of the empire, uniting the distant subjects in a loyalty to the mother country and its values. "Playing honorab...