Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

In my point of view, cricket rules over the other games in India. Hockey is a national game but in India many of the people don't the name of hockey players or any other sports person but in cricket a 5 year old child can tell you the name of whole cricket team. I am not saying the cricket is a bad game but you should also respect all the sports and sports person. Even government can not took further steps for improving and leading the other sports.

Cricketers are much wealthier than any of the other sports man. Government should not humiliate the other sportsperson. They should provide the equal respect to other than cricketers.

I completely agree on this and the reason being the popularity of cricket in the subcontinent and the major reason for this much of popularity is because of the fact that Kapil Dev and company won us a trophy which was literally impossible. And that gave every Indian a belief that we can compete at the global level.

The fact that India had the chance to play the Fifa World Cup in the 1950s but they couldn't because of the financial conditions at that time also plays a part in the popularity in cricket because if India had participated in fifa, you never know today football might have been the biggest sport in India.

WEll its a fact that cricket has been overshadowing all other sports exercised in our country. The performance of the Indian cricket team has won many accolades all over the world, so its bound to happen that Indians are prejudiced about this game. But that definitely does not imply that one should go bonkers and disrespect other nationally and internationally celebrated games. Another reason to this is the over stimulated publicity and investments by all the biggies of the country in this sport. Thus, it overshadows the successes in various other fields of sports which has left many a sportsmen disheartened.

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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!

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.

Hi friends,

India's peoples like game only for a game cricket not value other games. L play cricket and I am thirteen years old but other game not known any child every child known cricket game. But no knowledge of any games like hockey, tennis, chess, football any other games.

Main reason Indian people crazy on cricket world cup, t20, one day games. The government give spot cricket don't like any other game. Example mc mary kom is won four boxing championship but not give facilities Indian government. Last I say cricket is a game and not waste of time many games are pending in heart of India.

Cricket has a national obsession. That is why other sports don't enjoy equal status in our country as cricket:

> Hockey is our national sport but we hardly know any player of Indian hockey team or rarely follow the matches.

> FIFA is extremely famous. Around 40 teams participated in it. But India lies nowhere in the field of international football.

> China, US, UK bags 50-70 medals in Olympic but our country is hardly able to secure 2-3 medals.

> Kabbadi and Kho Kho are our domestic sports but lie far behind cricket.

> Gymnastics, Water sports are still not there in India.

Hi,

I would like to say something about this topic. First of all we should respect all the various sports in the existence and no sport govern the other sport. But if we search the history of cricket in India, it was spread here by British empire first of all and this game is in only those countries where they ruled. Eg- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, west indies, Australia, Newzeland and others. So this can be say that this game is symbol of our slavery. And in hockey India have won 8 golds in Olympic. We should improve our thinking in order to think about other games.

Cricket is a game played only between 7-1/2 nations and yet it gets the attention from Indian Media as if it was a world level sports and all the news related to cricket is hyped like anything. I personally feel that BCCI is bribing the entire top media (times of india, hindu, etc) to hype the news about cricket. The recent example is in which Times of India is hyping the news about Unmukt chnd not getting pass due to the lack of attendance which was an internal issue of the college but it was blown out of proportion by the media and got all the unwanted attention.

No game is superior or inferior to other. Each and every game has its own importance and specialty. In case of cricket, I feel it as a gentleman's game compared to other. Because each and every moment there is an excitement, every ball, every over is breathtaking, exciting. But in case of other games for example football excitement is limited whenever a player reaches the goalpost. Likewise, I feel cricket is a exciting game, good entertainment. It does not rule over other games, it is the attitude of the people that makes cricket to rule over other games.