41.   Cricket is a minority sport in Scotland and is brushed aside by the more popular football codes of soccer and rugby union.

42.   Cricket is a passion in this Indian Ocean island nation.

43.   Cricket is a passion with people in the subcontinent and in former British colonies.

44.   Cricket is a passion with people on the subcontinent and in other former British colonies.

45.   Cricket is more popular than soccer in Bangladesh, which is making its debut in the five-week World Cup in England.

46.   Cricket is more technical.

47.   Cricket is the most popular sport in the two countries and India and Pakistan are former world champions.

48.   Cricket is the national passion of both countries, and soldiers kept radios to their ears as they zeroed in on their targets.

49.   Cricket was particularly a source of pride on many of the small islands because it was the only opportunity the colonized had to notch a victory over the colonizers.

50.   Cricket will be in focus again Monday morning when Ganguly and Hussain step into the stadium for the toss on a wicket that traditionally helps pace bowlers.