India’s behaviour in cricket offers a sobering lesson in Indian power
“Cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.” The first line of Ashis Nandy’s “The Tao of Cricket”, published more than 30 years ago, seems truer than ever. India is hosting the quadrennial Cricket World Cup, which begins on October 5th, as by far the dominant power in the world’s second-biggest game by viewership .
In recent decades, the growth of television—and, later, smartphone—ownership, which took cricket from a few big cities to India’s furthest corners, has hugely increased the game’s political potency. Among the politicians who duly piled in, Sharad Pawar, India’s agriculture minister between 2004 and 2014, ran cricket in Maharashtra, India and, through the International Cricket Council, the world. As chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi took over the state’s cricket board in 2009.
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