"In some parts of the world cotton is still grown and handled in a relatively unmechanized fashion. In Ethiopia, for example, cotton still supports a cottage industry."
Their vaunted success trading stocks, bonds and other instruments has helped to transform a cottage industry into a behemoth; today hedge funds oversee more than $2.1 trillion.
Sport has become business and sport is still run and that is true beyond cricket in other sports, but particularly in cricket, as if it's a cottage industry.