Cricket as a National Obsession is a Detriment to Other Sports

Hello all!

In my opinion, cricket cannot be declared as a national obsession. This year many of us were more excited about events in Brazil rather than India's tour of Bangladesh for cricket series. We were glued to our sofa sets enjoying the football world cup being televised though our team was not a part of it. This shows the love for the game and same goes for lawn tennis and other sports.

Haa it is quite stupid to think cricket as national obsession. It is the one game through which we are able to hold our heads high. We won 2 world cups and beeen on top in tests for odd 2 years. What has other sports have brought to India. Whatever is brought is quite appreciated. Abhinav bindra winning gold medal in olympics. Indian hockey team won 8 gold medals in past but that happened when tv's and internet. But 1983 wc was won by India when the tv's are just becoming popular. That made it more popular than any other sport. Every Indian wants to play cricket in streets. It is in to Indian blood and no media is required for cricket. Cricket is and will be the most popular sport in India and I hope other sports also will develop.

Hii friends, in my view all sports are same there is no any difference between cricket and other sports and just the people who are thinking that is different. I feel that that every game has there own identity and importance.

So don't hesitate other sports by comparing with cricket. For example take our family members we are giving importance for every person in our home or surroundings like that we want to give importance for other sports also not only for cricket.

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.

Cricket is a national obsession to other sports because cricket is deeply rooted in family heritage and also there are more role models in cricket compared to other sports. Moreover, the lack of investment in Oympic sports kills the desire in a child to take up that sport. Parents encourage cricket more than other sports.

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.

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.

I don't think cricket is an obsession it's just that 90% of our countries population is crazy behind about this sport. India's love to cricket can be compared to Brazil's love to football, but inspite of variation in sport there's one thing that's in common that is both the countries are quite successful in their respective sports. In case of brazil where it has gone on to win 5 world cup titles India has won 2 world cup 1 T-20 world cup and has won the champions trophy 2 times as well. Who knew the game of cricket before 1983 world cup, India entered in the tournament as an underdog and eventually ended up being the winner of the tournament may be that win roped a seed of the game in the minds of people of India which is now flourishing as a big tree and due to the kind of success it has had maybe that's one reason why the fans love their game over here. Moreover it's not only India who has this impartial love for certain game, there are many countries out there like whole of the europe is crazy for the game of football.

But inspite Indian peoples deep involvement in the game there are various leagues for various other sports that are coming up and kind of response and appreciation all these leagues are getting that surely suggests me one thing that India is on its way to becoming a great sportsnation.

Cricket is an obsession compared to other sports.

This is because, in the younger generation, everyone is drawn towards cricket. I extend my opinion by saying that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has a significant impact on cricket in India rather than international cricket.

Additionally, cricket plays a major role in all sports in India, although it is not of Indian origin. If a ranking were to happen for sports played in India, cricket would be in the top position, followed by football and kabaddi. This implies that cricket has stolen the limelight from other sports.

I conclude my opinion by stating that even though cricket has made its impact in India, every other sport deserves its respect.

Hi everybody,

I don't think cricket as a national obsession is a deterrent to other sports, cricket has got popularity because of the legends cricket has given to us like sunil gavaskar, kapil dev, sachin tendulkar, just because of the achievement these peoples have made, cricket is so much appreciated game in India. Recently if we take an example when rajyawardhan singh rathore won silver in Olympics, just after that we won lot of medals in shooting. So, if we want others game to be equally appreciated as like cricket then, we need some great legends in other games too.

And I believe that if other sports will also produce great players then definitely they will get the appreciation as cricket in this country gets.