8/6/2019 Cricket Commercial is at Ion Hurting Other Sports

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Cricket commercialisation hurting other sports

In India cricket is the most popular game. Cricket becomes a religion for the fans,due to so much commercialisation and so much media attention. Commercialisationof cricket is good for the players and the youngsters because they are getting exposureto prove their game. It is good at some extent for cricket but it’s bad at all extents for other games. Country is loosing talents due to focus on only cricket. In cricket,

players are playing continuously in test, ODI, IPL and other cricket tournament.Because of that their fitness is the matter of concern in big important games. They aregetting more money for their lives but they don’t have enough time to rest and regain

physical fitness.

Games, originated in India are left behind somewhere inthe lime light of the cricket. Our national game hockey is continuously loosinginterest as well as glory of the game. We won gold medal in 1928, when we played

first time in Olympics games. Indian hockey team is the world’s most successfulhockey team, won 8 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medal. But we barely heard newsabout hockey. Chess, polo, martial art, playing cards and badminton are originated inIndia itself. They all have lost in blaze of cricket. We have a glorious history in chessworld championship with 4 times world champion vishwanathan anand, and also have4-6 world junior championship.

Every state in India is building cricket grounds so theycan host a game in every 5 year. If they start spending money on other games, thatmoney will be sufficient to support other games, which are on their death badexpecting some respect and recognition for rebirth in India.

We have commercialised man’s cricket but the history of female cricket is same as the other games in India or even worse. Indian femalecricket team is playing continuously well in ODI and test cricket. They reached inworld cup final (2005). All female game players have worse conditions than the manPlayers. They have talent but they don’t have exposure. Sometimes they sacrifice for man players; we have many example of their scarification.

In recent commonwealth games Indian players did welland India finished at 2 nd position. In commonwealth games, shooters shot most of thegold. Every game should have same type of attention and facility for the players to

competit at international level. We need to increase awareness about others games by print media, telly media and by the government of India. First of all govt. should startsome nationalised games for them to motivate young players and to develop countrywise talents.

We need to come forward to save other games and to savelife of our national game hockey. If the process is to be continued in future, India will

be the country of only cricket. Every game will be history soon or latter due to somuch ignorance. The backwardness in Indian origin games will lead us to read aboutthem only in books. These games will be alien to their country of birth.