@PokerAce @grkrama Oh ok cool, that's interesting and weird. I'm by no means an expert of Indian or Asian cultures - but don't recall ever hearing British Indian i've grown up with define themselves as part of 3 or 15 different race groups, even if they may come from different cultural parts of India. Certainly never heard while watching a cricket game where India was playing and commentators explain it that way.
On England vs Scotland, I believe this years world cup was first time they met in a ICC event. But its not worth talking about since its no comparison to rivalry in football and rugby.
On grassroots cricket, the black generation play football at community grassroots, amateur level. Its a very simple dynamic with the under 30 generation of black brits of caribbean/african/mixed race heritage like myself - the sport is expensive and played in private schools and we did not grow up in a era where the West Indies cricket team was dominant.
My parents and grandparents generation had that luxury of proudly supporting Windies in cricket proudly from the 50s-90s which is why so many british born black players played for England back then. Plus in those times playing football as black man in England had serious racial problems.
If you look at county cricket now, Mark Carberry is the last descendant of that old British born black player playing for England in cricket - since he from that era of Alex Tudor, Mark Alleyne, Devon Malcolm, Dean Headley. Guys like Chris Jordan is essentially from Barbados, Chesney Hughes at Derbyshire from Antigua.
Kent Daniel Bell-Drummond and Keith Barker form Warwickshire are born here, but have very strong windies links -
Keith Barker: 'I'd happily play for West Indies' | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
Tymal Mills is first modern football generation influenced black player who has come close to national selectors radar in recent times.
Asian have large amateur cricket leagues, but as mentioned before that doesn't translate to representing England in cricket. The Mooen Ali's, Ravi Bopara, Vikram Solanki, Kabir Ali, Saj Mahmood, Monty Panesar, Samit Patel, Ajmal Shehzad and other low level asians in county cricket are in the minority of wanting to play cricket for ENG. In a lot of ways they have taken over in modern times as main minority cricket representatives from black people.
