tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post5905388846701196580..comments2023-06-19T17:31:10.740+05:30Comments on Associate and Affiliate Cricket: Cricket's lost Bastions-Nations where cricket was popular at one timeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post-71137171561447158972016-10-24T07:16:29.184+05:302016-10-24T07:16:29.184+05:30Please add the Bahamas to this. It used to be extr...Please add the Bahamas to this. It used to be extremely popular there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01782488005860784371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post-75860685908449738262011-08-03T12:59:04.812+05:302011-08-03T12:59:04.812+05:30Around the start of the 20thC cricket was probably...Around the start of the 20thC cricket was probably on a par with football (soccer) in global popularity largely because the same British expats who played football also played cricket in the same clubs.<br /><br />The imperial in ICC is one of several reasons cricket failed to take off. Others that come to mind. <br /><br />Entrepreneurism. If you read football histories they talk extensively about pro football tours (Everton, Southampton, etc.) to the continent (Europe) and South America in the off-season. Cricket didn't have that, pro cricketers toured the colonies, and a lot of the places football succeeded in were in winter in the off-season. The USA had several MCC tours, but in late September, whereas the antipodes got October-March (the Australian summer).<br /><br />Elitism. Or why cricket succeeded in colonies and not independent nations. This is particularly true for the USA (see Tom Melville's book). People play sport to associate socially; in the colonies playing cricket meant associating with your (British) rulers; in other parts of the world (the Netherlands is still like this) it meant associating with anglo-philes who wanted to be a bastion of Englishness in a foreign world, and made no effort to promote the sport. Even today the opposite occurs: playing cricket means associating with sub-continental emigrants on the lower rungs of a social ladder, who again, want to maintain their uniqueness and culture.<br /><br />Cricket is a great sport though, it will get there, though whether tests will ever be universally played, or just die out is a question.Russhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02203855108867570914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post-78934248358110479612011-07-27T07:31:31.083+05:302011-07-27T07:31:31.083+05:30@Mihir:- Yes definitely Singapore and also Argenti...@Mihir:- Yes definitely Singapore and also Argentina is what I have to explain, that will come in part 2 of the blog. I do not know much about Uruguay. Let me read into the same. Thanks for the infoJashan Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266647933395426960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post-3500634255585939792011-07-26T23:14:28.450+05:302011-07-26T23:14:28.450+05:30Good one..what about singapore and UruguayGood one..what about singapore and UruguayMihir Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12444435385490735892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6652275847596477769.post-31149226159617097472011-07-26T22:32:33.069+05:302011-07-26T22:32:33.069+05:30Comments by reader even critical are appreciated. ...Comments by reader even critical are appreciated. These really help me improveJashan Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266647933395426960noreply@blogger.com