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