Cricket has become more popular than the national sports in the sub-continental countries. What do you think are the reasons behind this? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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, traditionally an English sport, is becoming increasingly popular in other parts of the world like Australia, South Africa, Indian Continents etc. But the popularity is evidently the highest among the countries of the Indo-Pak

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, for reasons that are historical, anthropological, geographical, and even commercial. There are more than 200

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audiences of

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only in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka and they are certainly the highest part of

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fans than another part of the world. The game of

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came to South-Asia

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the hands of the English colonists centuries ago and has seeped into the hearts of the people here while the cricketers of here have won over the hearts of the English.

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inter-continental

extending or taking place between or among continents

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love-affair, perhaps

has made the south-Asians elope with the Bat and Ball from their national and ethnic sports.

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, World Cup wins in the 80s and 90s, and phenomenal performers like Hanif Mohammed of the 50s and Sachin Tendulkar of late, all have made

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more psychologically ethnic than the native sports of

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region. Mother Nature had her hand in it too.

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is compared with religion in the country like India. Even when the war and conflicts hot the air of India and Pakistan, the stadium tied the friendship these two countries. Some opine that South-Asians are natural cricketers. It has indeed been proven that the

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players are more adaptive to the physiological demands of

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compared to how they get naturalised to other international sports e.g. Football, Basketball etc.

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, the climatic conditions here are relatively more suitable for playing

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compared to the climates of many other parts of the globe. Not to forget, the virtually uncountable population of

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region that continually fuels the ever-sprouting 11-member teams needed to stage only half of a

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game and supplies the hundreds of millions of spectators to cheer the players. Altogether, it is like a match made in heaven, “divine” enough to surpass any hereditary bond. Commerce plays its own amazingly profitable part too.

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enthusiasts

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here have become the primary consumer base of many global enterprises who mass-charm the

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customers through extravagantly sponsored tournaments. ICC, the governing body of world

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also cajoles

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is also cajoling

the people here because of their financial utility and cossets them from their sporting heredity. The national sport of the Indian

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is only official and in practice, they are not popular at all. The kids play

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in the fields, streets, rain harvesting fields and even

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the terrace of the building. They show a little interest in other national sports and

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how the appeal of those games

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. Regardless of where it came from, the most certain conclusion to be made here is that

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is to stay and sustain in the nourishment of the South-Asian pandemonium and will indefinitely reign over the people here like the God-sent hero who conquers not only the matter but

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the nativity.