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Cricket as a colonial weapon

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The Christian Missionaries of India

The christian missionaries were often the most enthusiastic and vand evangelists of the game across the colonies. The british empire was so much invested in cricket, so it was only natural that even they would consider cricket to be something that would be very useful in preaching christianity or their belief systems. They started believing that cricket was kind of part of god's will and also the ultimate a representative of the british Empire.

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