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Cricket, Fandom, and the Unspoken Price of Fantasy Gaming
The lucrative but perilous relationship between fantasy sports and the world's second-most popular sport
And it was gambling, not some noble intellectual pursuit, that pushed geniuses like Fermat and Pascal to devise the laws of probability, which are the foundation of everything in your life – from the next reel on your Instagram feed to humankind’s ambition of colonizing Mars. A surprisingly lax stance of the Indian government (which is very quick to either ban or tax sin goods into oblivion) allowed this industry, which transferred wealth from millions of people into the hands of a few and held cricket in countless countries hostage, to flourish. While the initial success was built on the back of refugees playing in the Pakistani camps, the sustained growth could only happen because of support from Pakistan, India and the ICC to help build a grassroots infrastructure.
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