Cricket and baseball: following the trends
'Cricket and baseball, have inherited paths of development that has been entrenched in the political economies, where they have thrived," says Srinivasan Ramani in the Post .
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
'Cricket and baseball, have inherited paths of development that has been entrenched in the political economies, where they have thrived," says Srinivasan Ramani in the Post.
Globalisation and the transfer of momentum into the emerging liberalised economies of the colonies is changing the nature of cricket now. From being a sport that was used to buttress nationalism, it is now taking the American professional route, a market-oriented one.
... Conversely, the re-emergence of nationalism in countries such as Japan has brought new trends in baseball. Japanese professional baseball players, many of whom are stars earning their bread in the MLB in America, were successful in winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo