Cricket traditionally was brahmin dominated. Gavaskar Venkat probably prasanna wadekar most Tamil nadu players - ashwin Vijay Badri karthik -partasarathy sharma of eighties VV Kumar kalyanasundaram mukund of seventies dilip fishing of seventies and yes as babloos reminds us srt
Probably Due to more access to the game and to bias
Even people who are in cricket are excellent too, be it brahmin or not, being in sports always requires excellence, that is the point I wish to make, often hated by everyone, pundas never proved second to anyone when it comes to excellence but when they become Vishwanathan Anand then it might be bias but when paes becomes champ it is handwork.