Cricket vs Stock Market: The Shocking Connection Nobody Talks About | The Quint

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Will India's cricket market tango strengthen or weaken over the next few decades?

[00:00:08]I would bet on strengthen.

[00:00:12]Why? Because cricket and equities are two cults that have grown explosively over the last 20 years powered by the same phenomenon and that is India's aggressive youth bulge. Just take a quick peek at key data points. Demat trading accounts crossed 200 million in 2025. That's up 5x in five years.

[00:00:43]Remarkably, this is almost equal to the total number of households in India.

[00:00:49]That's about 200 million.

[00:00:51]Nearly 140 million investors were active. This was up 4x since 2019.

[00:00:59]Over half the new investors on the national stock exchange in 2025 were under 30 years old.

[00:01:07]Half the mutual fund folios are now held by investors under 30, many from semi- urban and tier 2, tier three cities.

[00:01:18]Retail holdings have jumped by 5x after the pandemic and they are now over 1 lakh cr or rupees 1 trillion and a bulk of this is held in young hands.

[00:01:34]at 32.

[00:01:36]India has the youngest average age for equity investors.

[00:01:42]China is higher at 38.

[00:01:46]America is almost geriatric at about 45.

[00:01:51]So you want to bet that more than four out of five blue jerseys at Narendra Modi Stadium on the 8th of March 2026, they had taken a punt or two on a stock in the previous week. If you want to take that bet with me, I will give you excellent odds.

[00:02:13]This was Rag Stake today.