India, Feb. 20 -- In the next few weeks, a billion people in India would experience supreme excitement watching the World Cup to be held in England and Wales. India is infatuated with cricket and even in other parts of South Asia, cricket has now reached every village and every street corner. Geoff Marsh, former Australian cricketer, who a decade ago visited the TERI cricket grounds (where several international matches have been played), was overwhelmed by the amount of cricket that is played in India, on the basis of which he predicted that India would certainly soon become the dominant force in this game. His prediction appears to have come true, given the serious competition among Indian cricketers now playing first class cricket and a...