New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- There was a time, I feel sure, when India had nobody who played cricket. That was before England brought cricket to India and sparked the craze for the game we now see here. But in those early days when nobody played cricket in India, there were already plenty of people who played it in England. But at some point after Indians got hooked to the game, certainly our count of cricket players equalled and then overtook England's.

Did we celebrate that moment? Don't worry, it's a rhetorical question.

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