Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

Hi everybody,

I don't think cricket as a national obsession is a deterrent to other sports, cricket has got popularity because of the legends cricket has given to us like sunil gavaskar, kapil dev, sachin tendulkar, just because of the achievement these peoples have made, cricket is so much appreciated game in India. Recently if we take an example when rajyawardhan singh rathore won silver in Olympics, just after that we won lot of medals in shooting. So, if we want others game to be equally appreciated as like cricket then, we need some great legends in other games too.

And I believe that if other sports will also produce great players then definitely they will get the appreciation as cricket in this country gets.

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.

Hey everyone,

I don't at all think that cricket is a detriment to other sports it is the Indian people's supportive spirit of cricket that is destructing other sports. Most people do not even know that India has teams in Hockey, Rugby, Soccer, Basketball, etc. Its feels ashamed extremely to know that India a huge nation does not support their athletes.

I hope that India recognizes their athletes of all sports and supports them in their respective sports.

In my opinion , cricket is not detrimenting any other sports , it is supressed by ourselves we ,the people are totally responsible for that .
well i think that there is no comparison between 2 sports everything has its own existence so how can cricket suppress the other sports .
its just the matter of fact that indian people are crazy about the cricket .so the comparison lies not in sports but in our thinking only .
last-a-days the economic times conducted a survey to find out who inspires the people in the field of sports and the results was as under :-
43% people inspires with S R Tendulkar
35% people inspires with M S Dhoni
11% people inspires with S Nehwal
04% people inspires with Vijendra singh
04% people inspires with A bindra

from the above figure it is observe that a total of 78% people inspired by the cricketers ....that shows the craziness of the people towards cricket ..............

Well, I personally feel that obsession with cricket is a detriment to other sports. It is all because of the way it is promoted. It is just like in the case of a movie,if a movie is hyped about all of us go to watch it but some epic movie just gets neglected because of poor advertisement and there is less talent in other sports because of improper training because of lack of finances.

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.

Well I think there can be no comparison between any two sports. (infact nothing can be compared. Everything has its own existence). How can cricket suppress other sports. Its just a matter of fact that Indian people are crazy about cricket. So the comparison lies not in the sports but in our thinking only. Let us make ourselves think more equally and we will surely make the difference grow lesser and lesser.

I hate cricket...i don't know why everybody is crazy over it.

In the newspaper, Sports Star it was written that the prize money for India Open(Badminton) was only Rs. 5 lakh whereas in the Cricket world Cup, the prize money was more than a hundred crores of rupees

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,

Parents I India don't allow their kids to join sport academies because they think that there is no career in sports so after completing school they are sent them to persue medial or engeneering or any other course other than sports, against his or her inclination towards sport.

Another reason is that sports other than cricket don't get sponsorships due to inappropiate performance which in turn is due to the lack of entire setup and proper talent nurturing. Therefore there is much less scope for other games. Also it doesnot give any return to private players, stadiums go empty during the entire league.

Another thing is media hype that is the most important reason for the popularity of cricket.

For cricket we just need a ball and a bat, start playing on road, street. But for other sports we need proper training and a complete setup.