ABSTRACT
Although cricket was introduced in Norway in the second half of the nineteenth century, and Christiania Cricket Club established as the first cricket club in 1865, the sport never really caught on until the arrival of migrants from Pakistan in the 1970s. From a pastime activity practiced between the industrial barracks that some of the early migrants lived in the first years of their stay in Norway, cricket gradually became more organised during the 1980s, being admitted as a discipline under the national Confederation of Sports in 2007. Sport, according to Giulianotti and Robertson, serve a dual role as both a motor and metric of transnational change. Sport have the potential of travelling better than many other cultural formations, but some sports travel better than others do. This is obviously not only related to the pure characteristics of the various sports, but also the conditions within the different places it travels to. While cricket lost to football as the modern sports became popular at the turn of the twentieth century, the conditions for cricket in Norway changed when migrants from the former British colonies started to settle. A major driving force for this may be found in the way cricket is seen to reflect a Pakistani national character, or at least being a passion for large groups of the population, where cricket is played anywhere, at any time and by anyone, to paraphrase Alter.
