“Cricket is an Indian sport,” Ashish Nandy wrote in his 1989 book “The Tao of Cricket,” “that the English discovered by accident.” Nandy could very well have substituted “South Asian” for “Indian,” given the grip of the sport in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. These five South Asian countries are part of the 12 elite members of the International Cricket Council, the international governing body for cricket, and three of the countries—India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—have won four of the 13 Cricket World Cups. But most importantly, 90 percent of cricket’s one billion…
