Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

In India Indian Cricket Team is recognised as a no.1 Test team in all over the world.In 1983 India got World Cup.In other games India could not have gain this kind of fame.So many corporate company like to invest too much money to organised this game.So in India Cricket become very popular.
But ofcourse for this the players from other game become less interest on their game,which become a a reason that they are defeating in their games.

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.

What I feel is that. In India it can be a detriment. As we see. Very less people are watching the common wealth games. Because in India people like cricket more than the national game hockey. If we cannot give respect to the national game. Then you know what would be the symptoms. While in other countries, cricket is a normal game. So I think only in India this is possible.

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.

Hi everyone,

I feel that its a bit of overstatement that, cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to other sports.

We support many other games like tennis, badminton, shooting, etc. These games also have their own sheen and fame. We have sports stars like Sania Mirza, Saina Nehwal, Bopppana, Mahesh Bhupati, Leander Paes, Rajwardhan Singh Rathore, Abhinav Bindra other than our cricketers.

So many sports are also popular in India other than cricket also.