Question 3 Explain why cricket became popular in India and the West Indies. Can you give reasons why it did not become popular in countries in South Africa?
Class 9 - Social science - History and Sport: The Story of Cricket Page 157
Answers
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.
the cricket is popular in India and we at indies because they won the world cup more than 1 time
where as came to south Africa it has not won one time also