Exploring the Absence of Cricket in American Sports Culture: Historical, Social, and Cultural Factors Behind Why Americans Don’t Play Cricket
Cricket is a very popular game in India or rather it is the most liked game in India. But cricket has very little popularity in many superpower countries like America, France, Russia and China. It is not that people in these countries do not play sports. In fact, in these countries, except cricket, other sports are liked a lot.
Whenever there are big tournaments like Olympics, countries like China and America are at the top among the medal winning countries. Games like baseball and racing are very much liked in America. Read Also: KKR Crushes SRH in IPL Final 2024
et us tell you that international cricket matches have been organized many times in America, but in this country cricket has not yet gained as much popularity as it should. In Asia, apart from India, cricket has been flourishing in its neighboring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for many years.
Talking about the history of cricket in USA, people here have been liking baseball, a game similar to cricket. For your information, let us tell you that there used to be British society in America too, America got independence from this empire in 1776 AD. Read Also: Why do Americans not like cricket?
Whereas cricket started in the United States in the 18th century. In such a situation, when there was British rule in USA, cricket did not exist. Today, in all the countries that play cricket, there has been British rule somewhere.
Apart from this, when cricket came to America, it also started competing with its similar game baseball. This is the reason why cricket has never been played on a large scale in this country.
However, for some time the citizens here had definitely shown interest in this game. During the World War, there was a decline in the popularity of cricket in the United States and it continued like this for a long time and during the First World War, cricket here went into oblivion. had reached. Read Also: How the Indian Diaspora is Fueling USA Cricket
According to some reports, in the year 2007, ICC had suspended the United States Cricket Association due to some problems with administration. However, a year later in 2008, it was passed again.
The United States is also focusing mostly on the sports that most people play. Like America is performing very well in the Olympics. Since cricket is not currently a part of a big tournament like the Olympics, America had not shown interest in this game for a long time.
Talking about the present time, America is now showing eagerness to enter cricket. For this he has formally formed his national team. Many big cricket teams have played cricket here in the USA to promote this game.
