Question

Why is cricket considered to be a colonial game?

Answer 1

(i) Cricket remained limited to countries that had once been part of the British Empire.
(ii) The preindustrial oddness of cricket made it a hard game to export to the world. It thus took root only in countries that the British conquered and ruled.
(iii) In British colonies, cricket was made popular either by white settlers (as in South Africa. Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and Kenya or by local elites who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India.