Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

Cricket is a filthy rich sports and the involvement of filthy rich people are responsible for the hype of this game. I am sure out of 121 billion, 50 billion have nither time nor means to watch or play cricket. If a country like Ethopia can produce long distance runners who is running bare foot to bring lorrals for the country then I am sure it is possible in our country too. Where How and When is the concern. Hats off to those individuals who are trying their best inspite of all odds to perform in individual events. Lets see when media and states will shift their focus to promote these individuals for the sake of sports and for the sake of the country.

Hi Everyone,

I feel we all are interested in cricket rather than other sports. We all known the rule of cricket, how to play. We all knows hockey is our national sports but we don't follow this game because govt, media and our neighbor environmental support cricket rather than other game. So we all follow cricket.

Yes, I completely agree that cricket is overshadowing other INDIAN sports. There are rarely handful players of other games which are known to us. This is all because of not encouraging other sports. Common people, government as well as bolloywood stars are just interested in cricket and supporting it too. Now cricket players are gaining money and other sports players are not.

Support other games, the most hockey, our national game.

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Have to agree to Khilar. Cricket is killing other games. How many athletes, tennis players, boxers or footballers do we all know. Just a handful isn't it. Now ask anyone on the road for india's cricket team ODI squad contingents. Give it a shot. One Sania Nehwal or one Dhanraj Pillai does not change the sorry state of other sports in India.

Look at football for instance, having a population of over 100 crores cant we produce a squad for the football world cup.

Yes cricket detriment the other sports in India cricket is not treated as a game its treated as a religion, which is good but only upto some extent. Suppose if there is a cricket match between India and some other country then every person is affected by the result of that match but in case of other sports nothing like that is happen who won or lose its doesn't matter for us. This is totally partiality with other sports. Everybody in India knows about Sachin Tendulkar but how many amongst us know Saina Nehwal the great badminton champion.

Ofcourse, 1.21 billion people of India have an obession towards the cricket and this has led to the detrimention of other sports in india.all are interested in cricket only.In recent cricket world cup match the viewership was 100%, while in commonwealth games it was only 30%. this alone shows the pathetic situation of other sports in India.

Hello everyone.

I strongly feel that cricket has come to a point from where it is detrimenting other sports.

You can see among yourself that how many of us watches other sports played by Indian sportsmen. Ofcourse a handful. Why is it so?

One definite reason could be the hype that cricket gets through the media. People not only watch the match with shear attention but also the pre and post-match shows. Having build a huge sponsorship can also be contributed for cricket to flourish.

One main reason also is the investment of money by either government and now as we can see the business individuals, which lures young minds to have a great profession in cricket.

Lastly, I would say goverment should definitely see to this and take necessary measures to allow other sports perpetuate.

Hello everyone.

My name is Jitendra.
I want to summarise given topic to us is "cricket in sports".

All we know is that over national sport is football but it's not popular as cricket.
Cricket is an international obsession for us.
Because it has almost 2.5 billion followers.
In India, cricket was famous after the 1983 world cup.
And BCCI plays, a vital role in cricket.

I fell this figure is running out. Because. As we see that in recent completed commonwealth games play. Its overall great display from all our athletes. As they brought lot of laurels to the country by achieving various top positions as in their respective categories. As we can see a poll of young talents emerging from that sports extravaganza. Other than cricket. As we started to hear a lot about saina nehwal, leander paes, somedev, sania, and lot of others. They are not part of the cricket. But still they could reach out to of million Indian hearts. Through their matured performance.

So I think the scenario here is changing. As because of the talents emerging from every other sport.