CRICKET - The Destroyer ?

[dndeswal]

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In 2003, French journalist Francois Gautier had written a short article about the cricket frenzy in India. The author concludes that cricket madness in India is destroying its ancient culture, the young generation, and it is responsible for killing other sports. India lags behind 50 years behind the West in most sports.

This article is now also available on the following URL :

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/feb/09franc.htm


The article makes an interesting reading.

Bhai cricket-premi Jatlanders, please - lath tha kei mat khade ho jaiyo !

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[rakeshsehrawat]

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In 2003, French journalist Francois Gautier had written a short article about the cricket frenzy in India. The author concludes that cricket madness in India is destroying its ancient culture, the young generation, and it is responsible for killing other sports. India lags behind 50 years behind the West in most sports.

This article is now also available on the following URL :

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/feb/09franc.htm


The article makes an interesting reading.

Bhai cricket-premi Jatlanders, please - lath tha kei mat khade ho jaiyo !

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Hahahaha

Baat mein dum hai uncle ji

holland 1.6 crore ki abadi mein 6 gold le gya
ib kal parso hocky team ki dhulai kar gya aur is baat ne prove karan khater ke proof chaiye. Cricket mein bhi ise badhiya koni hum aaj tak ek world cup jeeta hai ar fer bhi bole ho rahe hain uske pache.5 din ke match ar result DRAW log 5 din saare dhande chod ke telivision ke aage baithe reh hain. doosre to wohi kahenge jo unhe lagega.

[vivektaliyan]

DND Sir,
It's misfortune of our country. We are wasting money and time afterwards cricket. But what's about our national game and others game. We are not concerntrating on that. In olympics how many gold medals
we had won with a huge population.

Stop promoting cricket .......And start helping the player of others games.

[satyenderdeswal]

Respected all,

In my opinion this is not the fact that cricket is destroying something.
Its also good in its place.
World ki No. 1 team ban ne ja rahey hai hum...Which is something to be proud of..

Lekin cricket ke liye itni deewangi kuchh galat hai...
Agar itna dedication aur sports (Not excluding cricket, But along with cricket) ke liye bhi ho to shayad wo cheese nikal kar aayegi jo actuall main honi chahiye..

DND Sir,
It's misfortune of our country. We are wasting money and time afterwards cricket. But what's about our national game and others game. We are not concerntrating on that. In olympics how many gold medals
we had won with a huge population.

Stop promoting cricket .......And start helping the player of others games.

[vijay]

Vishwanathan Anand, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati, Sania Mirza, Abhinav Bindra, Baichung Bhutia, Dhanraj Pillai and so on ( might be not too many )

Everybody who get up early for jogging knows Mikha Singh and/or PT Usha.

Are they cricketers ? Of course, not.
Are they not famous ? Yes, they are.

Then who is stopping you to play and become famous ?

The main difference is that cricketers are performing ….. sometimes they win sometimes they loose but they are performing and at end of the day they are world class players.

Nobody want to invest money and time on loosers and that is Universal truth.

If you keep dreaming about doing a Sachin Tendulker than nobody can teach you Hocky.

[sunillathwal]

yes, i agree with Vijay here.. cricket is not entirely responsible for the misery of other sports. True, it is most popular sport in India.. but how many spectators are there in any domestic tournament even if ex national players are playing?? may be few but when these players play with the Indian Team tag, people go crazy to get the tickets!!!
why?? its the Indian team tag, which give ppl something to cheer about. At least some 'Indian player' are performing at world level!! This feeling makes ppl crazy abt cricket. As pointed out by vijay, its not the sport.. its the performance. When Vijender was performing well in last Olympic.. there was enough interest in public and media as well.

Rather than criticizing cricket for its enormous success in Indian sub-continent, authorities related with other sports should learn something from cricket!!!

Regarding the youth's inclination towards cricket, Australia is an apt example here, they have dominated the world cricket like no body else did.. they are equally good in world hockey.. they still manage to produce swimmer like Ian Thorpe!!!

BCCI have generated funds through proper planning, they are not dependent on government for funding. They provide the best facilities to their players and good salaries. In fact BCCI had announced sometime back to sponsor emerging players from other sport!!
Why can't other boards, hockey federation do the same??

Cricket is not responsible for the malfunctioning of entire hockey system.
Hockey being our traditional game has enough talent. but everybody know how even good players are being thrown out god knows for what reason.

Media, as they say, is a two way mirror it shows what we want to see and hence we see what we they show!!

[satt]

YES ,
I THINK cricket is not good for our country. hockey and kabbadi are our ancient game. hockey is also our national game. but we are not giving attention on these games. reason is cricket. now in our country new boxers are also coming, mainly in haryana. now haryanana is the hub of boxers but our country leaders are not giving attention on these things. so, according to me if we pay attentin on other games also then we can get good results. here you can take the example of America and China becance in these countries attention on other games than cricket and so these countries are getting top positions in Olympic games but we get only one or two medals.:rock

[yudhvirmor]

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In 2003, French journalist Francois Gautier had written a short article about the cricket frenzy in India. The author concludes that cricket madness in India is destroying its ancient culture, the young generation, and it is responsible for killing other sports. India lags behind 50 years behind the West in most sports.

This article is now also available on the following URL :

http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/feb/09franc.htm


The article makes an interesting reading.

Bhai cricket-premi Jatlanders, please - lath tha kei mat khade ho jaiyo !

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Some days back I was talking with one Australian guy.. He said its crazy that indians are so poor and they play rich man's sports. He continued.."You guys also die from costliest disease (Heart Attacks)"

I think woh Nawab wale sarre kaam karte hain hum....

[vivektaliyan]

Vishwanathan Anand, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati, Sania Mirza, Abhinav Bindra, Baichung Bhutia, Dhanraj Pillai and so on ( might be not too many )

Everybody who get up early for jogging knows Mikha Singh and/or PT Usha.

Are they cricketers ? Of course, not.
Are they not famous ? Yes, they are.

Then who is stopping you to play and become famous ?

The main difference is that cricketers are performing ….. sometimes they win sometimes they loose but they are performing and at end of the day they are world class players.

Nobody want to invest money and time on loosers and that is Universal truth.

If you keep dreaming about doing a Sachin Tendulker than nobody can teach you Hocky.

Vijay bhai I agree with u at some extent but where is the main problem ???

The problem is not that cricketers work hard and others not. But we are not helping others. We are spending lot's of money behind that bluddy game where luck is a big factor.

If the cricketers are working hard then why some times sachin bold on 0 and sometimes make centuary?? why ?????
luck is important but in others games hard work is more important then luck.

No offences pls.


How much we are spending on other games as compare to cricket??

Money is a big factor to give a chance to new faces.

I am not arguing onthe example of P.t Usha and Milkhasingh. But our former prime minister Dr. A.P.J Abdul kalam has prove himself with out having good sources to study more(u all know the story) . Then why u people sending ur childrens in a good school and providing others facilities.

My friend don't take me wrong . There is always exception behind every thing. So PT. Usha and Milkha singh was an exception . But we need more attention to make so many PT. usha's and Milkha sing.. Money ,good resources and support of our govt. similar to cricket.

[sunillathwal]

How much we are spending on other games as compare to cricket??

Money is a big factor to give a chance to new faces.

bhaai ji, just one question:

Who is spending money on cricket.. Government??

[kapdal]

Kuchh logon ke comments padh ke aise lag raha hai ki jaise cricket hi saari naash ki jad ho...Chalo cricket pe ban laga dete hain India main...fir kya India automatically saare sports main champion ho jaayega? Bhai cricket toh apne pairon pe khada hai- uske pairon pe kyun kulhaadi maarte ho. It should be an example on how to run other sports.

[vivektaliyan]

bhaai ji, just one question:

Who is spending money on cricket.. Government??

Bhai...
I don't have any problem with cricket but government should give a equal chance to grow all sports.

[vivektaliyan]

Bhai cricket toh apne pairon pe khada hai- uske pairon pe kyun kulhaadi maarte ho. It should be an example on how to run other sports.

Bhai who is responsible to apply the same on other sports????

[vijay]

Vijay bhai I agree with u at some extent but where is the main problem ???

The problem is not that cricketers work hard and others not. But we are not helping others. We are spending lot's of money behind that bluddy game where luck is a big factor.

If the cricketers are working hard then why some times sachin bold on 0 and sometimes make centuary?? why ?????
luck is important but in others games hard work is more important then luck.

Vivek, i disagree with you that cricket is game of luck while others sports needs hard work. Do you think Sachin, Kapil, Gavaskar are living legends just because of luck while some other sports stars are famous because they are hard worker. Please check again your point of views and analyze by yourself.

I am not arguing onthe example of P.t Usha and Milkhasingh. But our former prime minister Dr. A.P.J Abdul kalam has prove himself with out having good sources to study more(u all know the story) . Then why u people sending ur childrens in a good school and providing others facilities.

That depends on person to person and their respective talent. There is no guarantee that kids studying in public school are going to become scholars. A real talent will flourish everywhere irrespective of the environment.

My friend don't take me wrong . There is always exception behind every thing. So PT. Usha and Milkha singh was an exception . But we need more attention to make so many PT. usha's and Milkha sing.. Money ,good resources and support of our govt. similar to cricket.

Yes, exception are everywhere and that's what needed in sports. Everybody can not become a sports star. They possess some talent and that's why they are where they should be. If you want to say that only facilities and money can produce sports stars then Ambani's, Tata's sons would have been most respected and popular sports stars of India instead of Sachin Tendulkar.

[vivektaliyan]

Dear Dayanand Sir,
I think now it's time to reply by u. pls let us know about u r views.

[kapdal]

Bhai who is responsible to apply the same on other sports????

Bhai, the administrators of that particular sports are responsible. The govt. should be doing a lot to promote other sports- no one is denying that. But you are obfuscating the picture by making statements like "We are spending lot's of money behind that bluddy game where luck is a big factor."

The govt. is not spending any money on cricket. I won't even praise BCCI too much for cricket's success in India. It is a very popular game in India. But atleast BCCI has done its bit. You can't force people to stop liking cricket just because you find it a bluddy game. My point is- what's the point of shedding tears on cricket's success when that is going to do no good to other sports?

[vivektaliyan]

Bhai, the administrators of that particular sports are responsible. The govt. should be doing a lot to promote other sports- no one is denying that. But you are obfuscating the picture by making statements like "We are spending lot's of money behind that bluddy game where luck is a big factor."

The govt. is not spending any money on cricket. I won't even praise BCCI too much for cricket's success in India. It is a very popular game in India. But atleast BCCI has done its bit. You can't force people to stop liking cricket just because you find it a bluddy game. My point is- what's the point of shedding tears on cricket's success when that is going to do no good to other sports?

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[Bobby3711]

Agar cricket itna famous hai to isme cricket aur cricketers ka kya kasoor? Aur kaun cricket mein paisa invest karta hai? Cricket mein to sirf bookies hi paisa invest kar sakte hain :D
Govt ne zor laga liya. Bohat paisa kharch kar liya lekin natiza kya wahi dhaak ke teen paat. Mere khayal se aaj tak govt ne cricket mein kabhi 1 athhanni bhi kharch nahi ki hai jabki dusre khelon mein bohat sara paisa kharch karke unhe upar uthane ki koshish lekin koi upar hi nahi uthna chahta to cricket ka kya dosh. Agar ko individual game mein upar aya hai to apne dum par. Chahe wo sania mirza ho ya milkha singh. Unhone jo kiya khud kiya humne aur sarkar ne unhe kya diya hai. Aur sabse bada mudda humne cricket ko bhi kya diya hai? Sirf apna time! Hum apna time dusre games ko bhi de sakte hain agar wo upar ayen. Jab kabhi kisi village mein kabbaddi tournament hota hai to hum dekhne jate hain uske liye time nikalte hain. Ab bat ayegi sponsers nahi milte aur tv pe telecast nahi hota is game ka. Agar koi international event hoga aur hamari team usme kuchh behtar karegi to nishchit rup se hum uski taraf jayenge. Jab jitender aur akhil olympic mein khel rahe the to pura hindustan unke liye duayen mang raha tha. To kya cricketers ne unhe kaha tha ki unke liye duayen na maango. Bhaiyo hum desh-bhakt hain aur hume jaha bhi lage ki hum yaha kuchh kar sakte hain to use sir aankho pe bitha lete hain. Aisa hi cricket ke sath hai.
Sab bato ki 1 bat ki hum cricket ko destroyer to nahi keh sakte kum se kum.

[sachinb]

Government should provide adequate infrastructure and equal importance to other games as well. But in India due to commercial advantage and big money involved in this game,,,,no body cares about other sports,,,,,,

Examples of goverment apathy are numerous,,,,recent one was our Boxers and Wrestler winning medal and see which type of Hotel accomodation they were provided

[vikasbhalothia]

DND Sir,
It's misfortune of our country. We are wasting money and time afterwards cricket. But what's about our national game and others game. We are not concerntrating on that. In olympics how many gold medals
we had won with a huge population.

Stop promoting cricket .......And start helping the player of others games.

Once Choudary Charan Singh ji coment on the cricket "I havent seen any other game in world which played for 5 days and fhir bhi koi result nahi nikalta . ese sports ko to pagal hi khel shakte