Cricket in India
Cricket is a sport played mostly in commonwealth countries. Indians are just crazy about it. You ask anyone what is the national sport of India? Pet reply will be Cricket, which is wrong. Hockey is actually the national sport but people hardly watch it nowadays. Indian cricketers are treated like gods in India. Cricket has become so popular that it has almost eaten all other games and sports. Everyone wants to become a cricketer. And despite this India’s performance in the recently concluded world cup was most shameful. They were eliminated in the first round itself. It is not that there is any shortage of quality players . The problem is that there is so much money involved in it now and because of that the selection is not fair. Instead of choosing the best team, they do it to please the bosses of BCCI, which is one of the richest sports bodies in the entire world. A note on cricket in India cannot be complete unless we mention that when there is a cricket match involving India, it is like a national holiday.
R.S.
