Fiasco and hypocrisy at cricket's 'Asia Cup 2025'

Cricket was popularised in our country as in most other parts of Britain's colonial empire by the English.

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While the British were not looked on kindly by local populations because of their boorish behaviour, cricket was and is, still revered as a sport in most of Britain's former colonies.

Initially, English and Australian teams dominated the cricketing world. However, like all things material, the game of cricket is evolving. Today, English and Australian teams no longer dominate the world cricket. The West Indies effectively ended the Anglo-Australian dominance of the sport in the mid-seventies.

Their (West Indies) unmatched supremacy included winning the first two Cricket World Cups in 1975 and 1979 and maintaining the top ICC Test ranking for nearly 15 years. Since then, the Asian countries of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have dominated the cricketing scene. Longtime participants in cricket, New Zealand and South Africa too, have risen in the ranks of the sport as well. Today, however, India rules the cricketing roost. Early success came in 1983 when, against all odds, India snatched the World Cup from the more fancied West Indian team. India's rise was a gradual ascendancy. Victories at ICC tournaments in 2013 and 2017 led to their continuing dominance in the sport.