Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

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.

As we belong, to country which has million cricket lover, we can't blame cricket blindly for not having enough interest for other support but we should work at grass root level to improve the situation of other sports by either funding or be starting sport club and be creating interest in children from their childhood. We should create a stable environment so that our elders and every person to have some believe that sports is also in one of the things in which a child can flourish whatsoever be the sports. As we are an outcome based nation but we must focus on the journey also which will create an atmosphere for coming generation to enhance participation in sports which are far behind than cricket in terms of amenity and attraction of people.

Indians are obsessed by cricket. Many channels are there to telecast cricket but not other sports especially hockey which is our national game. This situation can be changed by proper sponsorship and prize amount for other sports like hockey, football, basketball, volleyball, athletics, kabaddi and so on. The government should provide resources for the sports persons of those games. We can't say cricket is a detriment to other sports. It completely depends on people's interest in that sports. Through the proper delivery of other sports via television, people will get interested on every other sport.

Yes, Watching too much Cricket is the national obsession, and mostly males are fell into this. They waste a lot of time in watching sports like cricket. They prefer to see matches on their Daily necessary tasks. They left to do work. Students do not go to school, and they do not learn their lesson and atlast, they fail. This is a greet loss for our country's development.

Cricket, we all know that it is the heart throb sport of all Indians. The foremost reason for this is cricket was in a vibe since the time of British rule. It was the Britishers who actually brought cricket as a sport in India. In those times cricket was a source of relaxations. On the current scenario of the sporting profession, we observe government and other administrative bodies to give more preference to the sport than other. Hockey, being the national sports of our motherland still couldn't get such huge appreciation. Cricket in true sense has become a national obsession in India. Due to this craziness for the sport in India, other sports like badminton, hockey, archery etc are overshadowed. We cannot blame any media for this high consideration. A person gets obsessed for sports when he/she can relate himself/herself as the part of the sport. It depends on the sportsmen nlt on the sport. We may notice kids of 8-9 years can easily figure famous cricketers but can't name famous person of other sports at this age.

Thus, it's not wrong to say that India gives more importance to cricket but we cannot deny the fact of giving extra vibe to the sport by the governmental bodies as well.

Yes, I agree that cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to other sports and according to me, we do not need much proves for this.

I think no one will deny the fact that in a group of 4-5 teens, it's easy and anyone can tell the name of 10 famous cricketers but if the same question is asked for hockey or football instead of cricket, the response rate will automatically prove the statement.

In my opinion, we CANNOT say whether cricket is superior over other sports or not. Because it depends on one's choice it is not necessary that a cricketer's son will be a cricketer, likewise, it is not compulsory that every person likes cricket. But marginally in India cricket is actually treated more important because it has come at the time of British ruling, cricket gave people sense of freedom and later the other sports emerged gradually. So it is not wrong to say that cricket is a national obsession.

Cricket is a religion and the players are idols for the people of India. If any of their player losses, some people committed suicide and someone's heartbeat stops so do we have the same enthusiasm for other sports also. Cricket has also a very strong supporting board known as BCCI which is financially very strong and pays a very high amount of money to their players if they losses also.

Cricket is religion in India. Money glamour and then wide coverage by media make it more attractive and lucrative. Introduction of t20 matches also increased interest in this game. It is not detrimental to other sports instead other sports should be given proper coverage and fund.

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.