cricket only played by rich and knowledgable countries like Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe & West Indies, not 3rd world countries

back in the 90's the was a government initiative to setup baseball as a sport in Malaysia.

i was in highschool then, and this program is not under school. it was direct under kementerian.

when i joined, there were already an earlier batch of kids who already went to Japan to study the sport.

the most challenging part is to be the pitcher. not everyone can be the pitcher.
everybody can throw balls, but not everyone can throw like a pitcher.
that time i was also playing softball for school.

then one fine day, the programme was scrapped, and it was replaced with lawn bowl. hahahaha.