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History and Sport: The Story of Cricket

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 How the television broadened cricket’s social base? 

1. Television coverage changed cricket.

2. It expanded the audience for the game by beaming cricket into small towns and villages.

3. It also broadened cricket’s social base.

 4. Children who had never previously had the chance to watch international cricket because they lived outside the big cities, where top-level cricket was played, could now watch and learn by imitating their heroes. 
 
 

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