Nice article Madam! Nice time for publishing it. Thanks for givning all the information abt. the other sports. i cld. notice that most of the results u gave are less than 2 weeks old. That explains why cricket is not being watched right now- right now only 4 out 11 international teams are playing the game rest are having an off season. Lets see how good ur article looks when the India SL WI series and the Ashes Series get going. And as for the popularity of cricket going down, just have a look at how much money cricket generated for the welfare of the tsunami affected people.
we suffer from frog in well mentality and where did mera bhart mahan come here ???? comon author keep writing such stuff to let our Mahan public know where we stand in world of sports dont get discourged by these comments coz only minority of people who didnt understand what u meant will comment even i would not have bothered to post a comment until i saw thse reactions My only question is why then do thse people get so WORKED UP when indian team loses even on this site rediff all crazy comments i have seen yet we dont care if our tricolour and jana gana mana is not played at olypmpics HAHA mera bharat mahan
well the article seems to be slanting one side the author seems to have no feel for cricket n it seems he is trying to promote other games than cricket
The only objective such an article seems to have targeted to achieve would be to get lot of responses. The author's knowledge about cricket is highly questionnable. The only people who are really bothered about English football are the weekend beer drunkards of Europe and some Fillipinos. Tennis following in India and most of the world has dropped after the exit of Mac,Lendl,Edberg,Becker,Steffi, Martina,Evert,etc from the scene. Formula 1 and women's tennis is now popular in India due to Narain & Sania.
well the article gives an overall perspective of the games becoming popular in world. but the thing to taken in consideration is that the charm for cricket is still present not even in indian subcontinent but in obverall world.
ok folks such a nice article written you guys are saying cricket is gr8 blah blah blah watch eng -bangla WI- pak pla tell me one thing do people in eng aus NZ do care about say our Sachin rahul laxman when Aus eng NZ are not playing NOOOOO the answer is NOO they will watch champions league and Btw please when indian loses next time dont go mad Coz mera bharath mahan some one said as if when rathore won silver india got any less mahan ( actually it got more mahan) cricket is not a golabal sport period there are too many one sided contests for me if any right thinking guy cooly sits and asks himself he will know
Yes, the opinion expressed is only fair. The interest is waning in this cricket-crazy country coz of letz say overexpsoure and maybe we are finding the Tendulkars' and Souravs' as human beings at last. And we expect real champions, who never ever fall into the human category like Pele or Federer. They show consistency and grace and in a limited period as their sport allows it; itz fine to watch a game when you were nothing-to-do country for five days, but today the time is little and you need fastfood games and not a large-meal that takes time to digest! Well said Deepti, i only wish your words fall on the ears of ICC to open their eyes! Aravind.
Cricket has survived a couple of centuries and will do so in future.
Talking of the other sports the author only seems to focus on the final of the event and not on the innumerous goalless laclustre draws that led to it
Infact a shifting of focus from cricket specially of the noisy picnicmongers who have littke understanding for the game might in fact be a boon to the cricket lovers over the world
It is quite unimaginative on the part of the author to dismiss cricket in this fashion.
Cricket holds its charm due to the vagaries, twists, turns and what not. Many people do not like instant chewing gum type of games after certain point of time. Take football or basketball, they are typically boring with only one kind of play.
Nothing is more fascinating than the subtleties of criket, the changing momentums.
