The Civilizing Mission of Cricket

Colonizers assumed that they would always be better than indiginous populations at the game of cricket. Most of this writings had its roots in orientalist outlooks, which started being very popular from the late nineteenth seventeenth century. They became bolstered gradually in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the central tenets of imperialist thinking. The british educators or civil servants were extremely invested in propagating the values of cricket to the native people. And without princely patronage, cricket would never really have prospered into the national game that it has become these days.