9th Class Social Science Sports Question Bank 9th CBSE Social Science History & Sports: The Story of Cricket

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      How did cricket remain a colonial game?  

    Answer:

                      (i) The pre-industrial oddness of cricket made it a hard game to export. (ii) It took root only in countries that the British conquered and ruled. (iii) In these colonies, cricket was established as a popular sport either by white settlers or by local elites, who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India.


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