Is it? Infact, it's national shame..ideally goverment should intervene and declare cricket our national game wherein we are consistently doing well and got large fan following...Lets accept the fact Hockey is History we don't even know our National Hockey player names.
Re: Hockey our national pride..
by Surya Bhattacharjya on Mar 11, 2010 06:42 PM
This is your problem, you dont know your national players name. And for your kind information Cricket is played by only 12 bogus/arrogant contries, while Hockey is being played in almost all the countries. Though, we are not doing well in hockey off-late, we are still fighting for 7-8 position.
And if you think cricket is doing well, then it can be said about some other sports like Shooting/Boxing too, where we have good world champions.
Think twice, before you comment anything about any other sports.
Re: Re: Hockey our national pride..
by Vijay on Mar 11, 2010 06:50 PM
National Sport should be the which is widely followed and played at every gully level...i can't see hockey in that category!!!!!
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by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:08 PM
Bingo...dot on target Vijay...c'mon Surya National Game should be national pride and not shame...just before world cup match players are fighting for money instead of bothering for world cup matches..India is in World Cup just because we are hosting it else they were not even qualified to play world cup
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by aarruunn on Mar 12, 2010 04:21 AM
Cricket is played by very few people in many countries. Instead of saying Cricket as national game, rather we can buy world cricket rights for few bucks and play only in our nation.
I have spoken to more than 50 nationals and I never seen a non-indian knows cricket.
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by Surya Bhattacharjya on Mar 11, 2010 07:01 PM
If we take your view, then Kabaddi should our national sport. It is played in every villages where the people can not pronounce Cricket. Forget about playing.
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by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:09 PM
Bingo...dot on target Vijay...c'mon Surya National Game should be national pride and not shame...just before world cup match players were fighting for money instead of bothering for world cup matches..India is in World Cup just because we are hosting it else we don't even qualify to play world cup.
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by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:12 PM
Cricket makes money neither hockey nor kabbadi can dream of making that hugeeeee amount of moneay
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by Surya Bhattacharjya on Mar 11, 2010 07:21 PM
So, what should be the criteria? Money making sports? or the sports which gave us a number of olympic gold medals? Whatever the current status of hockey, we are still in 12th position of the world current standing (surely we will improve after the world cup). And for Cricket I can say we don't match with the top teams when we play WC or CT. Do we?
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by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:25 PM
Yes we do...we are currently number 1 team and favourites to win WC . Moreover, Cricket till date is never played in olympics so it's not fair to do comparison.
Re: Hockey our national pride..
by Saurav on Mar 11, 2010 07:19 PM
Once your father retires and does not earn any income, will you change your father if somebody else is your family is earning more.
Re: Re: Hockey our national pride..
by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:26 PM
why you are getting sentimental about it? anything which is constant in world is Change..if world can accept new 7 wonders of world, we can just discard hockey and except cricket as national game which is followed by 100 crores people in India
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by Surya Bhattacharjya on Mar 11, 2010 07:35 PM
Come on Naveen, you need to have concrete answers in support of Cricket. Forget about Olympics, Cricket will never feature in Olympics as only 12 countries play this lazy sport. And think about the WC results in cricket. What happened to 2007 WC, we all know. Still, if you think Cricket should be our National Sport, then think this in your day dream.
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by Naveen Ailawadi on Mar 11, 2010 07:39 PM
FYI...Cricket is part of next olympics :) and 2008 we did win T20 world cup
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by Surya Bhattacharjya on Mar 11, 2010 07:53 PM
T20 world cup can not be called World Cup at all. WC does not happen every year. I never heard about this. Last year Pak won the game, where were we? we ended the campaign from the first round. This year too, we will do the same. Don't worry. And for your kind information, we won it in 2007, when nobody was serious abot it.
