Cricket was an English conceit that South Asians slowly acquired and then assimilated, rather as English had done with South Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now they have reversed the conceit. Cricket's myths may give South Asians a good feeling, but the truth is very sobering. It is played in only 14 out of 193 countries. Yet if you listen to South Asians talk about it, you'd think there was no other sport worth the candle. And, Hamdullah, they are right.