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- Title: Patrons, Players and the Crowd
- Author : Richard Cashman
- Release Date : January 11, 2014
- Genre: Sports & Outdoors,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2998 KB
Description
Cricket has steadily emerged as the leading spectator sport in India, dwarfing all other athletic activities there. Despite all the encouragement given to Indian cricket by schools, government officials and business firms, the standard of play in that country has never been much superior to neighbouring and poorer Pakistan. Consideration is given to the role of commercial firms as cricket patrons after independence. A comparison is made between spectators at different venues, noting that whereas earlier Indian cricket spectators were well behaved, they became rowdy in the 1950s and occasionally violent later on.