Cricket is popular since even its shortest format game is of more than 3 hours,which is sufficient enough for any busy person to watch or Liston few minutes in his day life.Other thing is that the game is cheep & convenient enough for street players.
Its all very well that Mr Fisher says so but are we Indians hearing...we still seem to ignore all other sports except a sport starting with C....what else can explain the fact that we have only one academy of note for Badminton, all over India, with due respect to the one by Prakash Padukone...If only we had academies for other sports ,with the same kind of dedication as Gopichand...we would produce more champions and not just a SAINA NEHWAL & a SINDHU and a few others in other sports...