Foreign investors have been googly-eyed about English soccer for decades. Now, they are buying into an even more quintessential English sport — cricket. Auctions of franchises in a tournament called The Hundred have attracted investors from India,

The public is used to crackpot academics whining about the wickedness of the British Empire, and not long ago I read about one who complained about how our forebears had “exploited” the people of India by making them play our sports,