The Spread of Cricket


 
 
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The Spread of Cricket

The Spread Of Cricket : Some English team games like hockey and football became international games but cricket remained a colonial game.

  • It was only played in the countries that were once had been part of British empire. In the colonies , cricket was established as a popular sport either by white settlers or by local upper classes who wanted to copy their colonial masters.
  • In colonies, playing cricket became a sign of superior social and racial status.
  • The Afro-Caribbean population of the countries in the West Indies was discouraged from participating in organised club cricket This remained dominated by white plantation owners and their servants.
  • The first non-white club in the West Indies was established towards the end of the 19th century and its members were the light-skinned Mulattos. The blacks played informal cricket on beaches, in back alleys and parks.
  • Cricket became hugely popular in the Caribbean. Success at cricket became a measure of racial equality and political progress. When the West Indies won its First Test Series against England in 1950, it was celebrated as a national achievement.
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