Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

Hello everybody.

As you all said cricket is creating obsession to other sports. I also think that you are right. Our national game is HOCKEY but It is being ignored by government. It is also not provided with appropriate sports facilities.

Hello everyone,

From my point of view, cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to others sports.

The reason behind this is our gov and media focusing more on cricket while our national game is hockey, we should be more focused on hockey rather than cricket as our national game is hockey, as we can see that in India even in small villages the people are more interested in playing cricket because they are not aware of all other sports as gov and media are showing more and more about cricket that is why the game which we are not seen are getting disappear. So this is fault of our gov and media that they are not making people aware of all other game, of course I am agree with this topic 100%.

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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.

I think in cricket fan following is so much than other sports. If media and government both encourage other games and give more facilities then people obviously think about those sports. Now-a-days these IPL, t-20 attract everyone. They know that from these they will get more money and fame. That's why people interested about cricket.

Hello Friends,

I have some views on this topic " Cricket as a national obsession is a detriment to other sports".

I support to topic as publicity of cricket increasing simultaneously it is creating bad impact on other other sports like Hockey our nation game, Volleyball, Kho-Kho and lot of other games, reason is that people sees and hear every where about cricket because our media has been made them more and more popular by live broadcasting on DD national from a decade ago. Human psychology is that what they see they do same.

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I would say that the fame to the game cricket has made a bad impact on other sports. Too much attention and money is spent on this sport that the players engage in spot fixing. If too much attention was given to the sport then such embarrassing things wouldn't have happened.

Hello everyone,

I would like to pose a question to everyone, When does something become an obsession? I guess when people attach or associate themselves with a thing which he/she feels covetous about. Now talking about cricket, I agree that its presence has overshadowed many sports in India, but you can't simply blame media hype for everything. Before 1984 when India won its first world cup cricket wasn't that famous as compared to hockey. After the world cup victory cricket received a tremendous impetus and later on giving rise to many legendary figures who carried that momentum on, thus gradually becoming lucrative source of sponsorship for the sponsors and business magnates.

Unfortunately in other sports we have not been able to bring international glory of cricket's repute but we have seen many sporting figures like Saina Nehwal, Bopppana, Rajwardhan Singh Rathore, Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Singh, Gopichand becoming cynosures for their glory in Olympics and many other major international tournaments. This recognition has been possible only on the basis of their merit not because of the hype. Thus popularity of sport depends upon the achievement of team or individual in that sport. We now have many leagues coming up for sports like hockey, badminton & boxing. I would corroborate my point by citing example of Australia who are or have been world champions in many sports like rugby, cricket, swimming etc. Thus have immense obsession for all sports.

In the end I would like to conclude that there is no doubt cricket is a very popular sport in India but its unfair to call it as a detriment to other sports because popularity or success of a sport in India depends upon our sports player's or team's performance at global level because we never know few good tournaments can change a course of sport's future. At the same time onus also lies on the government to promote and provide adequate sporting environment for other sports as well.

Cricket cricket cricket ! It has become the religion of India and national anthem of our country so much so that the word itself creates a wave of excitement in the people. Cricket runs as the life flowing blood through the veins of multitudes. Yes cricket is the god of sports in India I'm not even being the least sardonic when I says this but in other ways we can say that it is the occasion of horrible condition of other sports in India. There was a time when India did win the hockey world cup but now nobody remember this.

Many of us eagerly waits for the indo-pak match to boost the morale of their country but where did this morale boosting brigade go when sportsmen other than the cricketers need them. At last I would say I'm not a cricket hater neither I'm against any sort of privileges given to this game but I'm worried little against the less attention given to other games at the cost of cricket.

I think that playing cricket should be banned, and try develope our country in its own national game which is hockey. Media and government play a very important role in popularising sports, and cricket have established such an international fame that it is just an wrong impact on people believing cricket as the best and other sports to be just wastage of time.

Ya I would partially agree on this statement.

Cricket being the most followed game in India pulls a curtain on other sports. If we look at today's data cricket is followed in every corner of India and is the obvious answer for aliens to guess it as our national game. I am not condemning it rather I would say we are passionate about this sport since we been playing it since childhood and the whole country follows it. Some follow it as it is their passion, some dream to be cricketers and etc. We choose only this because it has been the most attractive game without any doubt for Indians though it is not an National game.

This obsession of people has affected us in many ways, either it could be parents choosing their children to enroll them for a training camp or to watch it LIVE.

Even the govt makes us feel sometimes that cricket is the only game in India buy not supporting any other games. This scenarios make people lose their interest in other sports literally as there is NO support from people, govt.

But in between all these there are a few people who do follow some other sports passionately and have had success.

Finally concluding I would say YES Cricket is an obsessed game for Indians, Detrimenting other sports to maximum extent but not completely.