Cricket is not a sport.
Bzzzt! The rules for what is and is not a sport were thoroughly discussed in Wows chess thread. Nobody could improve upon the idea that if something can be done by a complete novice with an expert whispering in an ear piece what to do then it is not a sport.
Chess, poker, Cluedo, monopoly - games. NOT sport.
Where any kind of manual skill is required by the player at the event and no amount of hint giving in the ear can supplant manual dexterity and experience then it is a sport.
Snooker, darts, computer games, heck even tiddlywinks. Sport.
So, could you or I as complete novices do as well as the
any of the England team simply with Graeme Swann muttering 'hit it' in our ear?
Ah.
Cricket is not a sport.