Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

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.

After India wining1983 worldcup more audience were attracted towards crickets, from these on cricket become popular sport in India. If other sportsman would have won more international titles in games such as football, tennis and other, those sports would have been popular in India.

CRICKET!

Cricket is famous in India after winning 1983 World cup under Kapil Dev captaincy, after the first T20 World cup introducing IPL made a huge role to attract towards cricket.

Although other sports like football, hockey, and tennis are watched by people when it is compared to cricket it has fewer viewers.

Parents of today's generation are interested in joining their children in cricket academies rather than other sports academies. This is also one of the main causes of the increasing number of cricket fans among other sports.

In my view, give freedom to children to choose their interested sports!

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.

Hey guys!

In my point of view, cricket is widely taking place in India compared to other sports because of facilities and amenities provided by the BCCI. India is one of the countries which has more youths compared to other countries but unfortunately, they have been immersing themselves in the cricket. What I suggest is instead of having too much interest in the cricket they should also support other games equivalently and as a youth, it is our responsibility to give attention to other problems that have been facing 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.

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

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

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.

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.