Also Read | Failing the ‘Tebbit test’ again and againBut cricket has never been just a game, particularly in post-colonial countries such as India. The situation becomes complex when there is something of tables being turned, with a large population of Indian origin in the UK and India now a superpower in cricket. Using the example of cricket, he declared: “A large proportion of Britain’s Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. In 2012, when Spain won the European Football championship, the then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg admitted his children would fail the Tebbit test, because their mother, Miriam, is Spanish. “I’m not sure if my children who were wearing their Spanish football kit, given to them by Miriam, would have passed the Norman Tebbit cricket test”, Clegg said at the time.

Source: Hindustan Times June 02, 2019 09:11 UTC