Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

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Chinmoy Nagarkar said:   1 decade ago
Hello everyone,

I would like to pose a question to everyone, When does something become an obsession? I guess when people attach or associate themselves with a thing which he/she feels covetous about. Now talking about cricket, I agree that its presence has overshadowed many sports in India, but you can't simply blame media hype for everything. Before 1984 when India won its first world cup cricket wasn't that famous as compared to hockey. After the world cup victory cricket received a tremendous impetus and later on giving rise to many legendary figures who carried that momentum on, thus gradually becoming lucrative source of sponsorship for the sponsors and business magnates.

Unfortunately in other sports we have not been able to bring international glory of cricket's repute but we have seen many sporting figures like Saina Nehwal, Bopppana, Rajwardhan Singh Rathore, Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Singh, Gopichand becoming cynosures for their glory in Olympics and many other major international tournaments. This recognition has been possible only on the basis of their merit not because of the hype. Thus popularity of sport depends upon the achievement of team or individual in that sport. We now have many leagues coming up for sports like hockey, badminton & boxing. I would corroborate my point by citing example of Australia who are or have been world champions in many sports like rugby, cricket, swimming etc. Thus have immense obsession for all sports.

In the end I would like to conclude that there is no doubt cricket is a very popular sport in India but its unfair to call it as a detriment to other sports because popularity or success of a sport in India depends upon our sports player's or team's performance at global level because we never know few good tournaments can change a course of sport's future. At the same time onus also lies on the government to promote and provide adequate sporting environment for other sports as well.
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Niku said:   1 decade ago
Yes, cricket as a national obsession is indeed detrimental to other sports. You will hardly find anyone being interested in seeing sports other than cricket. The cricketers are treated as celebrities and the popularity of other sport players is nowhere near them.

A world Kabbadi champion team have to take auto to go their home and nobody even cares about them. While for hitting six sixes in an over, they are paid crores of rupees as prize money.

Some sportsperson even have to sell vegetables for their livelihood. There can be nothing more saddening. Generally the training facilities for other sports are abysmal. Even a kid dreaming of taking some other sports as his career thinks thousand time before taking any decision.
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Shobhna aggarwal said:   7 years ago
Good morning everyone.

There are different types of sports found in India but as we all know cricket has been the most liked sports for decades. Cricket is deep rooted in Indian hearts and almost more than half the population run after cricket. Cricket is the national obsession in India because the facilities like infrastructure and other amenities provided to cricketers are far more than compared to other sports let it be football kabaddi or even hockey which is our national sport. Cricketers are paid more and are recognized as famous celebrities which is not in the case of other games. I think that the other sports should be equally treated nad respected as every game has its own importance and benefits.

Thankyou.
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Manisha said:   8 years ago
It's not faring saying that cricket is a detriment to other sports. Each game has its own priority but as of now cricket is having much more craze than any other game due to their achievements during last few decades. Even a small child is interested in cricket as it is a game which can be played even with 2 members, a plank, a paper ball and a small place which is not enough for playing games like football, hockey, basketball etc. So ppl are more attracted to cricket which is much closer and easier to play n have fun. But Indians being good in cricket alone doesn't fetch us more medals in Olympics. The govt should step forward and give more support, funds, infrastructure, encouragement to the other games too. They should plan different types of leagues and telecast in the channels so that many ppl will be aware of different sports. As winning the world cup is a matter of pride winning the gold medal in Olympics also should be. When the members of other sports too bring India huge victories continuously then that particular sport can come into limelight. Parents should let their child know about different sports in school level itself and encourage them in At least, one sport in which they are most interested in.
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Deepak Kumar Bhuyan said:   8 years ago
Hello friends Good afternoon everyone well it's really hard to say that cricket has always been the national obsession for our country even if I am a die hard fan of virat kohli but truth is always bitter and hard to digest. The fact is the infrastructure and other amenities like salary accommodation etc given to cricketers are really lucrative and which is not given to other sports persons in our country be it hockey or Kabadi or be it Football. We should give equal respect and facilities to every game and every sportsperson. That's it.

Thank you.
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Mayank aggarwal said:   1 decade ago
As everybody mentioned that cricket is detriment to other sports. I quite agree with it. It is because:.

1) way of advertisement the cricket game is promoted.

2) Cricket sportstars are bein seen in most of the advertisements related to cricket or promotion of any other product likr dish TV ads, Mc dowells ads.

3) one of the main reason cricket is preferred when there is match between India and Pakistan. And the way it is advertised on the news make cricket to detriment other sports.

4) In newspapers, most of the sports page is filled with cricket news, whereever it have held.

So along with us, its media too playing the role of detriment to other sports of India.

Media has the highest power today in our country. If it wishes, it can change the shape of sports too.
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Rahul Prasad said:   8 years ago
Hello everyone,

Sports have always been an essential part of human life. The history of Indian sports has been written in golden letters in hockey, chess, marathon and obviously cricket as well.

Cricket is a sport we learnt from the British, and same like the English language it's becoming more popular day by day. Actually, the problem is we have shown more interest in western item than the locals.

Talking about Cricket being an obsession, yes it is an obsession. But even soccer is an obsession in the Western countries But other sports are also going excellent there.

So, we cannot blame Cricket for failure in other sports. We have had Vishwanathan Anand, Milkha Singh, The great Khali, Abhinav Bindra, Mary com and the list goes on.

What is the need of the day is our sports associations and the government needs to encourage other sports and even a parent should encourage its child towards other sports and schools and colleges should motivate and encourage its students participate in other sports.

Finally, I conclude that we need to work at the root level and make other sports flourish too.

Just blaming cricket is not going to work.
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Sushil said:   1 decade ago
Indians are obsessed about cricket superstars only. All they care about is. National cricket team. I have never seen full house in a Ranji trophy match. And cricket is popular in 15-16 countries only.

If we compare cricket in India with football in Brazil. Here Brazil is far superior. Because apart from football they also focus on other sports. Like boxing, skate boarding, x games, Motorsports, volleyball, basketball, they have a good reputation in these sports, despite being a footballing countries.
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Aishwarya Khiani said:   9 years ago
Hello friends,

Cricket is a religion in India. I feel that every country has a few sports which are more popular than the others some have baseball, some have football, while some in athletics likewise in India cricket is more popular than the other sports. But this leads to the negligence of other sports in terms of the resources to be provided which is unfair by all means. If we take an example of the ongoing Rio Olympic a huge buzz is being created on India's performance but nobody sees whether they have been provided with all resources. An equal amount of money should be invested in other sports as well which should be taken care by the Government. And about cricket, I think it's the choice of people what they wish to see and this cannot be a detriment for other sports. If proper resources are being provided to other sports as well I am sure they would also perform well.
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Soni11111 said:   1 decade ago
Hello everyone,

From my point of view, cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to others sports.

The reason behind this is our gov and media focusing more on cricket while our national game is hockey, we should be more focused on hockey rather than cricket as our national game is hockey, as we can see that in India even in small villages the people are more interested in playing cricket because they are not aware of all other sports as gov and media are showing more and more about cricket that is why the game which we are not seen are getting disappear. So this is fault of our gov and media that they are not making people aware of all other game, of course I am agree with this topic 100%.
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