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explain why did cricket became popular in West Indies and India

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Cricket is popular in the West Indies and India because of the fact that they were provinces in the British Empire and, as Britain in invented cricket, the British colonials naturally played it and so it spread into the culture of the respective countries for all citizens. Look at the other cricketing nations, for example: Australia, South Africa and New Zealand were all British colonies. South America was mainly colonized by Spain and Portugal therefore Cricket would not have been played by the colonials. This meant that it never developed a following among the natives hence why it is not played in South America with the exception of Guyana which was a British colony and so does play cricket.

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Kashyap Patel, Student. Writer.Coder. Positive. Practical.

Updated Mar 10, 2015

Cricket is famous in countries which was part of British empire. India, Pakistan,Australia, New zealand, Bangladesh, Sri lanka, west indies etc. 
Britishers used to play cricket on that eventually locals also start playing cricket. 
South american countries are colonies of Spain and French not like cricket much. that is why cricket is not popular in South America.

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Gurjot Singh

Written Apr 14, 2016

Cricket is famous in Guyana which is a south american country. Clive Lloyd,shivnarain chanderpaul,ramnaresh Sarwan are from Guyana. Guyana is part of west Indies cricket and west Indies is not a nation but group of many nations.

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