Please find attached a very nice write up on cricket and how/why it became and would continue to be so popular in the Indian Subcontinent. Credits to the author and the original publisher of the hardcopy content.
The author is Sri Nanduri Subbarao garu, a teacher, freelance journalist (in the telugu language) and an upcoming speaker, from Hanuman Junction , Andhra Pradesh.
[pdf https://www.worthview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cricket.pdf 604 700]