With this past, English cricket is
With this past, English cricket is
ill equipped
to face the new world order Psl schedule and teams 2018. Globalization, in sport as well as
in economics, can be cruelly destructive for traditions. It
favors mass
production at the expense of trade and
international
brands at the expense of long-established local names. With
television
and the Internet, cricket, like football, can now reach
a global
audience and the excitement and simplicity of the Twenty20 [a formula where
a game is
played in 20 sets of pitches for each side] - which
some believe
could even take in America and China - makes this form of
cricket more
salable than test matches and their intricacies. Sports loyalties were once
based on the
locality. Today Manchester United - which is in
essence a
multinational company - is as important in Shanghai as it is in
Salford. The
loyalty of an elite football player no longer goes to his
national
team but first to his own name and then to his club. There is a
similar
phenomenon in cricket, with the difference that if England is
with its
Premier League a football superpower (like rugby), it
must give
way to the first place in India in cricket.
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