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 honorably is a lesson
Moral in
itself and the classroom is the air and the sun of God, " said Lord
Harris, who was governor general
of Bombay in
the 1890s and had been captain of Kent. Later, cricket served to unify
the
scattered populations of Australia and to express Australianness: an
aggressive game , without feelings, egalitarian,
devoid of frills and refinement
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