Tristan Lavalette

@trislavalette

Cricket administrators – and even fans – often boldly proclaim the sport as the second biggest in the world. Last year, the ICC further trumpeted this with its first global market research project revealing cricket has more than one billion worldwide fans (in the surveyed age category of 16-69).
That’s obviously a mammoth number and cricket does seemingly boast more obsessive fans than basketball or rugby – the other contenders for the second most popular sport in the world behind football.
But we all know this enormous figure i...