Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

I totally in favour of this topic. In my point of view India is consistent in the cricketing world as one of the formidable opponents ever since India started taking part in the sport. The 1983 world cup win changed the history of cricket in India and unlike other sports, the different formats -Test, ODIS, T20, have been able to pull audience to the game. But in other sports like football, hockey we have never yet achieved these kinds of popularity.

It is indeed an overstatement that, cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to other sports. Indian Sportsman playing other Sports are also doing well and they are getting accolades from our country men. I really feel my self proud when our tri colours flutters and National Anthem sung, be it be any Sports event or occassion. Sports binds people with each other it never can be a detriment.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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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 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.

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 ..............

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.