Re: some ppl think that 100 countries play cricket
by Mr Infinity on Oct 26, 2010 01:05 PM
Well that depends on from which point of view you are looking at it. Till a few years back half of the India didn't knew we had a team playing international soccer. Still many people don't know what's the name of Indian soccer league or the name of the teams playing in it. Believe me, I am currently living in Pune and almost 60% people don't know what is Pune FC and how it performs. It's still a game popular in some of the regions in India. and not entire India's sports.
A sports gets lifted up when the country starts performing better, the graph is rising. Look at hockey, once we had hockey lovers as we were winning like anything, then came a huge dip and everybody ignored the game as we were not performing.
now for qualifiers... ok you can check the amount of crowd comes for game between Kazakhstan and Male. or say check the audience we had when India went to Portugal tour. It does depend on who is playing. You can't expect crowd for cricket match in Brazil, till it reaches to upper divisions.
Europian and Asian countries have only their own players in teams, It's just America region (USA, Canada) that has Asian origin players.
as for the comparison... yes soccer is far ahead in popularity. And it should be, it's dynamic and matured over time. Cricket is bit newer and still new in form of an organized international sports.
But just because soccer is more popular, saying cricket is ridiculous or bad is crazy. I follow both of them and love both of them
is Ravindra Jadeja - He emerged from core of earth and now growing and growing will touch Mount everest some day when he will lift World Cup for Kenya playing for India ---
Re: Re: Re: lol
by Mr Infinity on Oct 26, 2010 12:51 PM
well there is a series called Hong Kong Super sixes that's happening for years in Hong Kong (and it's a regional hit as well, but of course because of English regime for years). They have their own team as well. Now china is building their own team (guess why :) ) and their goal is to be in WC finals by 2020(!!!) (as usual aggressive Chinese).
Japan is almost non existent in cricket. In Asian region the countries that are active are Gulf countries, Indian sub continent and for east asia they have a different region group.
Re: Re: lol
by Prasad Damodaran on Oct 26, 2010 08:40 AM
and 10 out of 11 players are of indian origin in the above said countries, so what is the use? India too can participate in FIFA if 10 out of 11 players are of foreign origins like Germany, Italy, France, Brazil etc.
This man could be bookie himself. England is Mecca of betting. Shame on rediff for promoting these kind of players and teams. ICC itself is investigating about 100 matches fixed by English team.
Re: HaHa
by Azzrooddin on Oct 25, 2010 05:41 PM
I am sure, Not more than two people are writing all these below comments. They could be from betting syndicates.
Australia have appointed Venkatesh Prasad as the bowling coach. Venkatesh Prasad was sacked by BCCI as bowling coach in 2009. After that the Indian bowling has only weakened. And new talent is coming very slowly.
Now Venkatesh Prasad's talent is being recognised elsewhere. He will be mainly responsible to teach Australian bowlers to reverse swing which they find difficult.
This news on a british bolwer shows the heavy bias of media towards cricket.
Cricket is played in a very few countries and hence is non competitive, as compared to other more competitive games like football, hockey, athletics, volleyball, basket ball, tennis, tt etc. But our countrymen r addicted to cricket. To bring them out of this addiction, media can play a great part, which they r not doing - by reporting more on other games also and reducing reporting of cricket.
Let all right thinking people stop seeing cricket live coverage and cricket matches to come out cricket addiction. Otherwise all cricketrs of the world will go on making big money from India tax payers and our talented players from other fields will go on getting neglected.
Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by Mr Infinity on Oct 25, 2010 03:37 PM
Poor knowledge... unfortunately... Cricket is officially played at 100 countries (they all struggle to get their place in those tiny 2-3 spots for world cup, a bad concept introduced by teams like India and other test playing nations to make sure they play in every WC). The basic rule is if you play WC you can play international cricket for 4 years. else you go down in any of 5 divisions at first class cricket.
For Tennis, it's mostly an individualistic game, no one cares who is from which country people supports players there. And even players don't care about countries if it's not Olympics.
Volleyball? man no one cares about it till it's Olympics. They barely have international competitions between multiple countries.
Basketball does have many countries registered with it (like cricket) but only a few of them dominate the field (again, like cricket) and it's still evolving as a big game, people just started to loving it (unless one is US obsessed human).
Football (you mean soccer) ok that's the one I love too but think about it. It's been there for centuries now, and had more than 20 WCs already! (still won by only 8-9 countries, competition huh...) They are a mature organization and yes, Indians are way too back in it.
We can not give excuses about athletics and hockey. Yes we are ignorant about it. We never take our national game. and don't even show up for athletics even if it's at our backyard.
Re: Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by Kabul Singh on Oct 26, 2010 06:04 AM
100 countries playing cricket, what rubbish. you don't even get the nos. to stage a WC(?). So invite canada, holland. Hardly eight countries play serios cricket.
Re: Re: Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by Mr Infinity on Oct 26, 2010 10:19 AM
btw, this is not your college party where people need to be invited to make it successful. You can check how countries qualify just check ICC websites or even the websites of that country's cricket board website.
It's just that people in India don't know there are WC qualifiers in Cricket as we are by default selected for WC every time (as we are a test playing country.)
Re: Re: Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by Mr Infinity on Oct 26, 2010 10:16 AM
Instead of being caged in that empty skull of yours, get out of it and try to find actual information about the games and you will understand how misinformed you are. There are 5 divisions in cricket which a country has to qualify from to play in International cricket. The only exempted countries are the Test playing nations. And if you want correct number it's 104 official countries.
Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by bhuvnesh pratap on Oct 25, 2010 03:23 PM
One more moron cryin over cricket's popularity in India , why don u ask US and japan to give on baseball ? Plz guys grow up " jo chalta hai wo bikta hai" ...soccer we aint on top 100..hockey Aus trshes us 8-0 any day...athletics: no commnensts...Its better to talk about gud things rather than hopless situations :)
Re: Too much media bias towards cricket
by kongo rudy on Oct 25, 2010 04:00 PM
I am tired now. Dear Ram can you justify ur statement "Let all right thinking people stop seeing cricket live coverage and cricket matches to come out cricket addiction. Otherwise all cricketrs of the world will go on making big money from India tax payers and our talented players from other fields will go on getting neglected." If I loose cricket addiction, how would cricketers avoided from making big money?
