Call it the Miracle on Grass.
A national cricket team that most Americans didn’t even know they had beat one of the sport’s global powers Pakistan, for whom the game is a national obsession. The triumph Thursday in the T20 World Cup – a global tournament using a shortened, three-hour version of a game that can last five days and still end in a draw – shocked the cricketing world.
But it also reflects how developing nations are changing world’s balance of economic and political power and, in some cases, are eclipsing their former colonial rulers. “There is this pivot from global north to global south,” said Chadwick. “And this pivot is evident not just in cricket or sports, but obviously in economic and political affairs, generally.” What is cricket? Cricket is a game of bat-and-ball with distant similarities to baseball.
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