Cricket is a sport that is not very well known by the external world being that is quite high in only 3 countries: England, India and Pakistan.

Just to get an idea, only one cricket player is among the world’s highest-paid 100 athletes, but it receives an exorbitant amount of 31 million a year (27 of them being in sponsorship) making it 23’s highest-paid athlete World in 2015.

Cricket was once an Olympic sport, but it closed up leaving the program because it did not have all the rules well defined and the number of practitioners in the World was not big enough. They are currently trying to include it again, primarily as a demonstration sport (no medals) but it is still unclear when they will get it.

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