"In India, only cricket can get out of the gloom"

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 .
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