This is the
statement many look with awe when I say, when they ask me for score for which
my replay used to be, ‘I don’t know’! Born and brought up in a country where
cricket is the most celebrated sports and holding innumerable cricket fans
unlike nowhere in the world, I wonder why cricket doesn't fascinate me even at
least. I have played cricket in my childhood days and I used to enjoy batting
chances whenever I get, even I don’t withstood more than dozen balls in a match,
I feel wonderful every time I gather strength to stroke a ball as much distance
I can. I think I may have lack of
patient to go through the matches that run for whole day. Or thought of what I
gain watching cricket. But I show interest playing cricket in android device
though it last for only few minutes before I get bored.
I am zero when
it comes to knowledge about cricket and I know only the names of renowned
players and who the captain is. But being a son of ardent cricket fan, I stand
far away from my father and used to argue a lot against cricket, and criticize simply
for nothing serious. I know he truly enjoys watching cricket and his excitement
towards the mishap in match would put anyone at amaze to turn back to check
everything is right. Alike my father, my young martial uncle is also a cricket
enthusiast and he used to skip anything to just watch cricket. And my
grandfather also used to watch cricket, even he has difficult watching TV he hadn't lose interest. But I’m not the only one in my family who doesn't like
watching cricket; my late elder uncle never shown interest on cricket and I
think my brother as well not interested.
I truly
disappoint with the cricket that played today and I hate the IPL (Indian Premier League) especially.
With the discovery of 20/20 cricket matches I think the sport spirit has come
down and cricket has become just fun and frolic. I am not against people who
love watching as well playing cricket and even I like cricket but not
interested that much and crazy unlike make other. For me cricket is just a sport
and I don’t like seeing it apart anything… and I think IPL is conducted with phase
of money spinning and not encouraged talent in anyway. There are number of sports to play and not
many know Hockey is India’s national game and even known doesn't care about it unless
Olympic arrive. The good thing I see about cricket is that unites the nation and
there nothing wrong playing cricket. But being crazy is what I don’t like.
I used to love cricket. But after the match fixing exposes, I stopped watching cricket in any form. I like hockey too, but these days I don't watch/follow any sport on TV.
ReplyDeleteDestination Infinity
Well said Jeevan. You are spot on!
ReplyDeleteYour father and grand father watched Cricket , when the matches were played in good faith.People had lots of time for the game which, as B.Shaw said "eleven fools are playing and eleven thousand are watching":-)
After the decades of scandals and match fixing and betting stuff, cricket has lost its sportsmanship, and is now only glamorous.
Total waste of time and money, used only to make moneybags richer.
I totally agree with you! Cricket bores me - and I come from England where lots of cricket is played.
ReplyDeleteHi, I don't know anything much about cricket --but our country is BIG into sports. The industry (football, baseball, basketball and golf--plus more) has gotten so big --and there's so much money and greediness involved, that sports is not nearly as much fun to enjoy anymore..
ReplyDeleteHave a great day.
Betsy
I must admit that I don't know much about cricket other than it is incredibly popular in some parts of the world.
ReplyDeletemany of your disappointments could be applied to any professional sport here in the US, too. exhorbitant amounts of money paid to athletes. terribly high ticket prices to watch events. team owners making tons of money while there are poor people needing food and housing.
ReplyDeleteI too don't like cricket.
ReplyDeleteSheer waste of time.
I like some sports, but think that in general people make them out to be much more important than they should. The high salaries and ticket prices have never made sense to me. Did you say hockey is India's national game? I never would have guessed that!
ReplyDeleteI don't like cricket but my son plays cricket in his school.
ReplyDeletei enjoy watching and playing cricket, but not this T20 thing...
ReplyDeleteMy son and my husband are big fans of cricket and are crazy about IPL. We watch some key matches from Seoul even though start at 1130 PM for us! But i think IPL does more for dividing the country into even more pieces than it already is!
ReplyDeleteCricket simply dominates Indian sports. Everybody wants to play cricket and wants to be Sachin Tendulkar.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, I think other sports are just starting to get some due exposure and people are getting interested in playing other sports too. For example, a relative of mine has taken up archery and that too professionally!
Cricket mania (i.e. IPL) is more about the money these days than actually about playing the game.