The cricket world transcends India

Gandhi's country hosts the Cricket World Cup. For Indians, fans of this sport, it is the sporting event of the decade. At the entrance to the stadium, a cheerful crowd of fans surround Sudhir Chaudhary.  Worth of every team in psl All regulars recognize him and ask him to lend himself to the game of photos. He takes the break, showing off a body coated with paints. Chaudhary is not a player but a cricket fan, one of a kind: his haircut draws the contours of India, his torso sports the colors of the national flag. On his forehead, a white inscription: "INDIA". Sudhir Chaudhary is one of the most famous Indian fans. "I have dedicated my entire life to cricket, there is no turning back," he says. 8 years ago, the young man leaves his studies as a teacher to fully live his passion. From his home town of Muzaffarpur on the Nepalese border, he did not hesitate to meet his "god", Sachin Tendulkar , the star of the national cricket team. Without be...

The 30-year-old man alone embodies the Indians' overwhelming enthusiasm for cricket, the country's most popular sport. "It's impossible to know the number of people who have been fired because the federation does not keep the accounts, but 90% of the Indians have played cricket at least once in their lives," said journalist Amritanshu Gupta. During major competitions, it is not uncommon to see dozens of Indian fans clumped in front of the window of a store equipped with a television. Other sports have only crumbs, as noted Jagdish Singh, famous boxing coach: "In the sports pages, it's 98% cricket, 2% for the rest". Each piece of vacant land, in town or in villages, is the scene of improvised parties. Young people go to Cricket is a religion in India, of which Chaudhary is by far the most fervent faithful. Frightened to see his pact "litchis against notes" threatened at the approach of the retreat of Tendulkar, he threatened several ...

In this World Cup period  WHAT`S NEW IN PSL 2018 AND NEW PLAYERS IN PESHAWAR ZALMI 2018 , the sport introduced by English colonists in the 18th century is omnipresent. "When he first came to India, cricket was a way to challenge the British colonial presence, and today it has become a business," says Sharda Ugra, a renowned specialist. At each corner of the street is the smile of Tendulkar or one of his teammates. If the salary of the cricketers is still far from equal that of our footballers, their advertising revenues can reach new heights, like the four-year contract of 40 million dollars (32 million euros) signed by Tendulkar with a marketing company. "Unlike Bollywood actors, cricketers manage to bring together all the regions of the India and are the best icons for brands, says Sharda Ugra. Cricket is the only thing that unifies India. "So much so that" cricket diplomacy "is even spoken of in meetings between India and its arch-nemesis, Pakistan.   ...

Cricket is the major sport of the Indian subcontinent and more broadly of the Commonwealth. Boria Majumdar, a cricket historian and researcher at the University of Central Lancashire, discusses the place and influence of this sport in this region of the world. Boria Majumdar is a professor at the University of Central Lancashire in England, cricket historian and author of many books on the subject (A Social History of Indian Cricket, Lost Histories of Indian Cricket: Battles of the Pitch, The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket or Cricketing Cultures in Conflict: the 2003 World Cup) . He explains the special place occupied by this sport in India and Pakistan .

There are two main reasons in the middle of many other less crucial ones. In the first place, the nationalist tool of cricket has been used as a singular instrument of struggle against colonial domination.  Psl schedule and teams 2018  This use has been very relevant to the people of India and Pakistan. As the choice of military action against British rule was excluded at the beginning of XX th century, cricket has played a significant role in the fight against the oppression of the British Empire. Then, cricket is the only sport where Westerners are forced to count with India and Pakistan. The financial epicenter of global cricket has moved to the subcontinent. The subcontinent leads the dance. Paradoxically, European officers conceived cricket as a tool of their "mission of civilization" and promoted it in the education system . This ultimately helped to favor the Indian project . Although the English manipulated the ethical foundations of the sport in their favor, I...

Historically, whenever India and Pakistan have gone through a period of tension in bilateral relations, cricket has come to the rescue. For example, from 1961 to 1978, there were no diplomatic relations between the two countries. Contact was resumed with "cricket series" of 1978. Once again, after the Kargil conflict at the turn of the XXI th century, India and Pakistan resumed bilateral dialogue at the friendly tour of 2004. The Cricket has always encouraged closer ties between citizens of both countries during political crises. It has been used as an effective diplomatic weapon .

Only cricket can overshadow the harsh realities of India: 44% of Indians live on less than a dollar a day, about 70 out of 1,000 children die before the age of 1 and 25 others do not exceed At the age of 5, terrorism is a constant problem, community conflicts are likely to re - emerge at any time , and the brain drain is still threatening. New players in PSL 2018 It should also be noted that India, the second most populous nation in the world , has an insignificant presence on the world stage of sport. At the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, India won only one bronze medal. In all its Olympic history, the country has won only one gold medal. Cricket is the only discipline where Indians can show the muscles. In summary, cricket is more than a game for the Indians. Indian cricket rights have been sold for a whopping US $ 612 million for four years, far more than in any other country. Cricket relies on an audience of over a billion viewers. With a Premier League valued at over a billion...