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Dbq The Relationship Between Cricket And Politics
Many people wouldn’t believe that cricket had a relationship with politics in South Asia from 1880 to 2005. Their is many relationships with cricket and politics one of them is the way political leaders would be involved in the game of cricket because of the players being treated bad, also many petitions made towards them to help them out. Another relationship was the kind of people that were around the game of cricket that have a political title. Another great factor in the relationship between cricket and politics is the discrimination towards the cricket players and fans. Even though cricket might not seem to have relationship with politics, they really have many relationship such as…
The way that cricket and politics are involved with each other is mainly because of the cricket players writing petitions to a political leader because of conflicts that cricket players have with other sports. One of the examples where the cricket players had a conflict with another sport was in Bombay, India, 1881. Their was a conflict between the cricket players and the polo players. The cricket players wrote to the governor of Bombay, India about letting them get new fields where they could play
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Their is many articles in where they speak about the good things cricket can bring to a place. Cricket has the ability of uniting the rulers and the ones being ruled, cricket also provides with a moral thinking (Doc 3). In Bombay (Mumbai), India in 1906 there was different castes that separated the people, but because of cricket and the different skills of people they were treated differently forgetting their castes (Doc 4). In 1938 a Indian sports journal talked about the great things that cricket was doing for the conflicts between different religions. People in India might not like other religions than their own but when playing cricket they get a long and their religious rivalry disappear (Doc

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