4.The most British (Cricket World Championship)

 Australia's victory in the final of the 2014 Cricket World Cup.

In France, cricket is 1,200 licensed. That does not change the case: the Cricket World Cup is one of the most popular events in the world. It meets every four years - the same year as the Rugby World Cup - between eight and sixteen of the best national teams. In 2015, it was held in Australia and New Zealand.

Which plays in his favor

Cricket is played in few countries but by many people. It is the number one sport in India, with 1.3 billion people, and Pakistan, which has 188 million. 2.5 billion viewers were expected for the 2015 edition. Between 1 and 1.5 billion people followed the meeting between India and Pakistan. A hallucinating figure. Even if the extreme length of the games partly explains this score, it is worth to the

Cricket World Cup to be simply the single most watched sporting event simultaneously. He is able to gather about 20% of humanity in front of his post.

What's missing

Cricket remains a sport essentially confined to the former British colonies. If it is well-aired in 200 countries, the world championship is only played between 14 teams and 23 nations, knowing that the West Indies team is multinational. Of the eleven editions of the competition, only twenty teams participated. The winners are always the same: Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Sri Lanka. Outside of these countries, the name of the Australian Mitchell Starc, best player of the 2015 World Cup, is much less familiar than that of Lionel Messi, best player of the 2014 Football World Cup. In France, even the names of Nicolas Douchez Etienne Didot tell more about the average sports fan.

Our opinion

We must see reality in the face. Cricket has a monstrous international strike force, even if it is invisible in France.