NCERT Solution: History and Sport: The Story of Cricket
National Cricket Championship Trophy
C.K. Nayudu
1. Huge audience and popularity of the game in a larger area of the world made it a marketable.
2. Satellite television technology helped the live transmission of the game. Television channels had business opportunities by buying television rights for live transmission.
3. The channels had sponsors in form of companies who were happy to pay large sums of money to air commercials for their products to cricket’s captive audience
Pakistan has pioneered the great advances in the bowling
1. The ‘doosra’ was invented in response to aggressive batsmen with heavy modern bats,
2. The reverse swing was invented to move the ball in on dusty unresponsive wickets under clear skies.
3. Both these inventions were greeted suspiciously by England and Australia
1. The technology of satellite-television and the reach of multinational television companies all over the world created a global market for cricket.
2. India has the largest viewership of cricket.
3. Television channels made money by selling televisions sports to air commercials.
4. Continuous television coverage made cricketers celebrities.
1. In the place of five-day matches one-day internationals became very popular these days.
2. Television encourages changes in the nature of cricket. It increases the number of spectators.
3. Coloured dress, protective helmets and field restrictions became a standard part of the Post-Packer game.
4. In twentieth century, cricket is played under lights.
1. South Asian countries have largest viewership for the game.
2. South Asian countries have largest market in the cricketing world.
3. The ICC headquarters was shifted from London to tax-free Dubai.
4. Innovations in cricket team mainly come from sub-continental countries.