Is cricket hampering the growth of other sports?

Hello Friends. Lohit Seth Here.

This time GD topic is "Is cricket hampering the growth of other sports? I think this would be the very interesting topic and GD.

As per my thinking i don't think so cricket hampering the growth of other sports. Every sports have its organization and commity. So /its their responsibility to make their sports famous. BCCI also made it. Hockey is the nation game of our India but it is also famous yet it is not getting so much growth like cricket.

Indian team is very strong in cricket field, this is also the one of the reason cricket have more growth. Hockey team not getting the right resources and facilities and other sports also this can also be the reason of bad growth of other sports.

I would say that cricket is indeed hampering the growth of other sports in India. Sports like chess and hockey which has got us more recognition and gold medals is being overridden by cricket.

The main resposibility for this bias goes to the government for encouraging and patronising cricket. Hockey is indeed the national game of India, as said by Lohit, but it is a shame that we are not giving due recognition to our national game. There are many sponsorors and huge pay packets for cricketers. Why not for other games? India is known to the outsiders as only a cricket playing country.

If cricket is included in Olympics the performance of India is yet to be seen.. but it has already made a mark in hockey and other sports.

Hello,

A very good topic to discuss.

I think Cricket is not at all hampering the growth of other sports. This is because the national game being Hockey they are many supporters who are ready to watch the Hockey game if some good performance is shown by the Indian players. What really hurts is the poor organisation of other sports and performance of the players. Since Indian cricket team is very strong there is huge support for Indian cricket team. If same performance is shown by other sports players also we can find the same enthusiasm in the supporters as that of the cricket team.

I can even support my statement by saying that,presently there is soccer world cup going on on par with Asia Cup tournament, but many people even though there is no Indian team in the soccer world cup are preferring to watch those matches.

Regards,
Karthik.

I think Cricket is indeed hampering the growth of other sports!! Lohit made a good point about organisations being there for the other sports, which is a true fact! it also is the fact that the amount of media hype that cricket generates and the Five-star treatment that a cricketer gets is actually twisting the scenario of the sports scene! due to such type of publicity and hype the sponsors are mostly unwilling to back up other sports!

Take example of Vishwanathan Anand! in my opinion, he is a true hero! for years and years he has been consistent in his games, winning many accolades worldwide, but does he get his true worth!! Whereas take any cricketer, is there even a single player who has remained consistent throughout the career! Tehre are a couple of exceptions, but name even a single player who will match the prowess of Anand in terms of consistency and perseverence. I know with this statement, there is going to be a lot of argument regarding the difference in the games being compared, but what I am talking about is the general attitude of the players!!

Finally the GD is about one of my favourite subject Cricket.

I think Cricket is not at all hampering the growth of other sports.It is all about likes and dislikes of people.what cricket has done to hamper other sports?take an example of country say australia, they are number one in
cricket, but dit it affect other sports in their country? they also perform excellent in every sporst from
athletics to hockey.
In case of India it's very true.We can easily find children playing cricket on ground,on street etc.
but hardly u can find children playing hockey,football.
all sports for that matter seems to improve when its made worth to play for,and i think the hype around cricket
assumes the same amount of incentive and and interest we allowed it to receive.same would apply to other sports
if and if only we can sow so as to reap.

what about my suggestion guys?

sajeetharan wrote:
[quote]

I think Cricket is not at all hampering the growth of other sports.It is all about likes and dislikes of people.what cricket has done to hamper other sports?take an example of country say australia, they are number one in
cricket, but dit it affect other sports in their country? they also perform excellent in every sporst from
athletics to hockey.
In case of India it's very true.We can easily find children playing cricket on ground,on street etc.
but hardly u can find children playing hockey,football.
all sports for that matter seems to improve when its made worth to play for,and i think the hype around cricket
assumes the same amount of incentive and and interest we allowed it to receive.same would apply to other sports
if and if only we can sow so as to reap.

what about my suggestion guys?[/quote]

The hype around cricket is true. It mainly stems from the partiality of the Indian Govt to Indian cricket. Leave alone other matches, the recently started T20 matches have lured people like anything.

Yes, everybody play cricket. Today who will remeber Dhyan Chand, who is still considered a hockey wizard? By it is not so in cricket.Everybody will remember Abhijit Kale or Sreesanth of yesterday.

And, in Australia, there are organisations concerned with every sport, but in india the major governing bodies are for only for cricket, hockey and perhaps chess. What abut billiard? snookers? Archery? The hero..Abhinav who has recently won the Olympic gold for shooting has been forgotten..

And as Kalyani said, many of the other players like Vishwanathatn Anand remained consistent without any bureaucratic attitude.

OK ...A very good topic to discuss in present scenario.

I have the opinion that cricket is hampering other sports directly and indirectly.

1) As Lohit said there are organizations for every sports in India.OK, but recently BCCI has offered money to pay to Hockey players.That means most of the associations are only an official set up to have a name.Actually BCCI has lots of money and we had seen two months ago how it came in.

2) When one sports pays huge amount to its players naturally the youth will turn to it only. It is not due to the beauty of the game but due to the money it pays.It is human to turn to money side.So where there is money all will be there.That is why it is popular in India among its citizen as well as officials.

3) Before getting Cricket this much popularity we were popular in many games like Football (Once we qualified for world cup also!!), Hockey , Kabadi etc.All those fame went behind curtain only due to the "Vuvuzela" sounded by the cricket and its fans!!

4)Lohit told, India is very strong in Cricket field. Yes , it is like the half nosed King in the country of noseless people. There is less than ten countries that play cricket well.To be king of them is not a great one.

5)Also regarding the performance of our cricket team in world cups in this year and last year there were a lot of discussions.The failure occured from the side of a highly paid team.At the same time as Kalyani told none cared when our Indian pride Viswanathan Anand landed after winning the world title.

6) As Sajeetharan said Australia is performing well in all games.Yes,that is because they are not focussing on a single game.Their pay perks may be same in all games unlike us.They gives equal publicity to all games.Unfortunately we give it only to money and money related things.
All these means there is a pride and prejudice between the games existing in India

Aggree with Abid on the points..

As I too mentioned earlier, there are many sponsorers and promoters for cricket. And BCCI is well-focusssed on promoting cricket. Unlike IHF which does not even care when India win a Hockey match.

There are, I think more about a 100 cricket matches in a year, including the IPL matches. Not so for other sports.

Runners like Anju George and PT Usha have less scope. Finally, it seems the film media has to do its bit to encourage hockey fever in Indians in the form of 'Chak De India'.

Hello,

I do agree that they are many sponsors for Indian team like Sahara etc because there is consistently good performance shown by the Indian Cricket players at international level. This consistent is not shown by other sports people at international level. Sahara is even ready to sponsor for Hockey team but they are lot of allegations in the team between the seniors and juniors.

In order to promote the game the respective organization should conduct more number of matches instead of saying that Cricket is hampering other games.

Hi Kathick-[quote]In order to promote the game the respective organization should conduct more number of matches instead of saying that Cricket is hampering other games[/quote]

As of now India is spending major portion of it revenue on cricket, if it spends the same amount on other sports, poverty and unempolyment rate will be increased.Hence, money on cricket including the heavy pay packages and benefits to cricketers, needs to be curbed.

And also, I doubt if there is "consistent good performance" for cricket, considering that the last world cup India won in cricket was in 1983. and I supppose there are comparitively less international one day matches won after that.

Karthik, you say that teh Indian cricket team is showing consistent performance at the International level!! is this true?? When was the last time that we won a World cup?? You say that players from other teams are not performing that well!!

But then when has the govt or media or for that matter any other sports sponsors supported other games as much as the Cricket team???

The amount of money that goes into Cricket matches is just so enormous that more and more youngsters are attracted to cricket than other sports! Would you think making your own son or daughter a hockeyplayer or a badminton player??

Where it comes to talent, we Indians do not have dearth of it, but what takes us down is the lack of funds if it is not cricket!!

I remember a thread by Chinmoy where he said that long long ago Indian football team had qualified to play at the world cup. The most horrifying part was that they were NOT allowed to play because the players did not have proper shoes and there was no money to buy them. Did ever such incident happen in the history of cricket?

Where soccer is concerned, our country does have excellent teams such as Mohun Bagan and Salgaocar etc. but do these teams ever come close to being qualified at any time for the world cups??

It is my opinion that it is high time that attention be diverted from cricket and the other sports be given their longstanding dues.

Sridevi wrote:
[quote]Hi Kathick-[quote]In order to promote the game the respective organization should conduct more number of matches instead of saying that Cricket is hampering other games[/quote]

As of now India is spending major portion of it revenue on cricket, if it spends the same amount on other sports, poverty and unempolyment rate will be increased.Hence, money on cricket including the heavy pay packages and benefits to cricketers, needs to be curbed.

And also, I doubt if there is "consistent good performance" for cricket, considering that the last world cup India won in cricket was in 1983. and I supppose there are comparitively less international one day matches won after that.[/quote]

@Sridevi

The present ICC test ranking of India is no 1 this shows the consistency of Indian cricket team in the recent days. There might be some ups and downs but overall they are able to produce good results.

Your first paragraph says that India is spending major portion of money to cricket, its not the India which spending the revenue its the BCCI which is spending its revenue on cricket. How can BCCI spend its money to other sports? Its meaningless. Moreover if good performance is shown by the players of other games like cricket then craze automatically follows them like that of cricket. So it all depends on the players and organization and there is nothing to blame on cricket.

Regards,
Karthik.

Hi Karthik,
[quote]Your first paragraph says that India is spending major portion of money to cricket, its not the India which spending the revenue its the BCCI which is spending its revenue on cricket. [/quote]

BCCI is an Indian body only. So when I said India I meant BCCI only. and as per the ICC cricket rankings i wonder if India is in the No 1 position.
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/match_zone/team_ranking.php
It is showing No 2 only.

[quote]The amount of money that goes into Cricket matches is just so enormous that more and more youngsters are attracted to cricket than other sports! Would you think making your own son or daughter a hockeyplayer or a badminton player??

[/quote]

Right Kalyani.. and not only is cricket associated with money, but also fame.

And when you mentioned badminton, I remember reading somewhere that even Prakash Padukoni, the badminton champion,was higly unsatisfied about the unprofessional conduct of the sports governing body and told that the game needs to be run like a company with a separate CEO.

So, the major reason for this unprofessional conduct is due to lack of funds and proper accountability-all of which is diverted to cricket.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:
[quote]Karthik, you say that teh Indian cricket team is showing consistent performance at the International level!! is this true?? When was the last time that we won a World cup?? You say that players from other teams are not performing that well!!

But then when has the govt or media or for that matter any other sports sponsors supported other games as much as the Cricket team???

The amount of money that goes into Cricket matches is just so enormous that more and more youngsters are attracted to cricket than other sports! Would you think making your own son or daughter a hockeyplayer or a badminton player??

Where it comes to talent, we Indians do not have dearth of it, but what takes us down is the lack of funds if it is not cricket!!

I remember a thread by Chinmoy where he said that long long ago Indian football team had qualified to play at the world cup. The most horrifying part was that they were NOT allowed to play because the players did not have proper shoes and there was no money to buy them. Did ever such incident happen in the history of cricket?

Where soccer is concerned, our country does have excellent teams such as Mohun Bagan and Salgaocar etc. but do these teams ever come close to being qualified at any time for the world cups??

It is my opinion that it is high time that attention be diverted from cricket and the other sports be given their longstanding dues.[/quote]

@ Kalyani

If you think that the world cup is the only thing that we need to see then it is completely wrong. Based on one tournament you cannot judge the quality of the team. If world cup is the only criteria then South Africa should not be considered as a good team as it didn't won even a single world cup so far. Its the consistency that we need to see and not one single tournament.

Regarding the soccer things that you spoke those things took place in 1950's where our country was not developed in any aspect. Today they are good number of grounds available with quality resources but where are the players?

Regarding my son or daughter if they are really interested in sports and if they have the talent in badminton or any other sport of their choice I will definitely encourage them.

Regards,
Karthik.

@ Sridevi,

Let me clear you one point there is no link between the Indian Government and BCCI. BCCI is at its liberal to spend its revenue in which ever form they want. As the revenue they get is from sponsors and other sources and not from Indian Government. The link you provided clearly shows that India is on top of all teams.

Regards,
Karthik.

Yes..agreed BCCI does not get its money from the government, but only indirectly encourages it to make cricket popular and "is the richest cricket board in the world. "but finally it is the Indian revenue only.

And.. Ok i edited the link.. And in this link:
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/
Australia is in rank 1, followed by S.A and then India.

Sridevi wrote:
[quote]
And.. Ok i edited the link.. And in this link:
http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/
Australia is in rank 1, followed by S.A and then India.[/quote]

I clearly mentioned that India is no 1 in test rankings in the above link also it shows India as no 1 test team in the world. There is lot of difference between ODI and Test rankings and rankings wont change from one site to another site.

Regards,
Karthik.

Yes. that was ODI only..where india was rank 3

Karthick

Indian players are never consistent, except few. why there is lot of changes in the team for every series if players are consistently performed? once ifran pathan was praised , where is he now? and you are diverting the topic of group discussion.

all that matters is India does not promote anything, when we consider USA, they are promoting baseball all over world.
India should promote kabadi and khokho what if kabadi is nepali's game? even cricket is not our game it is england national sports.

while there is a worlcup event for cricket why don't they start a worldcup event for kabadi and other sports?

Yes Saajeetaran.. Kabaddi, being our traditional game , it was not cared till now..Also, We do not hear much of India participating in Basketball or football world cup.

And as Abid said, BBCI had to offer money to IHF which shows the sorry state of affairs of hockey.