Answer:
The
pre-industrial oddness of cricket made it a hard game to export. It took root
only in countries that the British conquered and ruled.
In these colonies, cricket was established as a popular sport 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.
Cricket was a British game. It did not become popular in the
countries of South America because the British did not colonise and rule those
countries as they did in Asia and Africa and therefore these countries remained
unexposed to cricket in the early years of the game.
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