Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Why Cricket is most popular Sport in India?

Cricket has been the thrilling and exciting game both to play and to watch. Out of all other sports news covered in mass media, cricket news in the most read and watched in India. The game brings in the team spirit, promotes discipline, helps to upsurge character and brings out the quality of leadership.

Despite, India being a hockey-playing nation, where Indians used to emerge as hockey champions, why is it that every match of cricket thrills audience and compel them to leave all other things and get fixed in front of their TV’s? Why is it that Street, offices, schools run empty on a day of India-Pakistan super sensitive match anywhere in the world?

In the mid-20th century, hockey was among the most liked sports, however, with the passage of time its craze faded out. Cricket emerged to be the most engaging and widely watched sport in the latter half of century. Today, India without cricket is incomplete. Fanaticism for cricket is apparently in the blood of Indians. From school goers to a teenager, or older generation, for all cricket is the biggest fad.

Cricket has been the lucrative business too. Players in this field earn huge figure and also the highly popular Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is one of the multi billionaire sports authorities of the world.
Acknowledged to walk with the drift, Indian media cover all the highlights of the sports news which contributed fifty percent of cricket news while another fifty percent emphasizes on other sport. TV news channels and online media cover each and every update on cricket news. In-fact, the new media i.e. internet enables you to know per minute scores of your favorite series of match.

Online news portals provide all the latest news on cricket and other sports news from in and across the country. Enthusiasts can also read current top stories, sports headlines with videos, photo galleries and more.
Special reporters are asked to get in every bit of detail of cricket news from the field; the news is then reached to the web media offices and uploaded instantly. While in TV news channels direct reporting is done by the special correspondents specially assigned for this task.

With its set of advantages like instant access to news anytime anywhere in India, online news portals come as the biggest boon for the cricket enthusiasts. Well, with this is would not be wrong to mention that cricket fever in India has a stronghold upon its populace.

Cricket is in the blood of Indians, no matter what age!  So far, the cricket is unbeatable and is likely to be the same in the future as well.

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