Abstract
Based on Henry Typhal's social identity theory and Habwazhe's collective memory theory, this paper
studies the phenomenon of Pakistan's national cricket mania through participation observation and
unstructured interview, combining diachronic and synchronic analysis. The results show that, with the
popularity of cricket among the Pakistani people reaching a level of obsession and fanaticism, cricket,
which is integrated into the daily life of the Pakistani people, is not only a sport, but also has a social
significance beyond culture and religion. Cricket has such a huge magic, from cricket has a long
history as a symbol of identity and hosted by the colonial and anti-colonial collective memory, this is
rooted in the collective memory of history, pushing into the post-colonial cricket, become a symbol of
nationalist emotion people and turned into a connection throughout Pakistan people, beyond the
religious and ethnic ties, become increasing nationalism emotion and build national identity has
unified meaning of symbolic entities.
Ma Chunying. (2021) Cricket and National Identity in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume-58, issue 4.
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