Cricket in South Asia
Cricket is the most popular sport in South Asia, with 90% of the sport's worldwide fans being in the region.[1]
History
Colonial era
Contemporary era
Cricket has helped shape national identities across South Asia,
Cricket started to become the most popular sport in South Asia around the time of India's 1983 Cricket World Cup victory, overtaking the previous local favorite field hockey.[17][18] Further growth happened with the televising of cricket in regional languages.[16] Another major milestone in Indian cricket was the 2007 launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL), which has become one of the wealthiest sports leagues in the world.[19] These developments have led to South Asia becoming very important in world cricket's decision-making, and being a financially important place for other countries to tour when playing international cricket.[17]
India and Pakistan have a very heated cricket rivalry, with India-Pakistan cricket matches (particularly at global events) being some of the highest-viewed matches in global sport.[20] Cricket has been suggested by a number of commentators as a possible way to create peace between the two countries.[21][22][8]
See also
- Sport in South Asia
- South Asian diaspora#Sport
- Street cricket(also known as gully cricket in South Asia)
References
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Televised matches in indigenous languages have also helped build and maintain a wide fan base, as has the transference of regional political tensions onto the wicket—international test matches between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are, today, rabidly nationalistic events replete with hooliganism, jingoism, and sometimes outright violence (Appardurai 1996; Nandy 2000).
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- ^ Kugelman, Michael (2024-05-16). "How Cricket Is Easing India-Pakistan Tensions". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2024-05-12.