I have read this quote many times in Facebook.
If Cricket is a religion in India, then Sachin Tendulkar is the God.
I have seen from my school days, many of my friends are attached towards cricket only, though my school showed equal interest on other sports / games as well. At the junior level, all guys would just start to learn the sports and try to play them. So everybody would be equally knowing the sports and due to the inherent talent, one few show their talents without much of practice. During college, I have been seeing my friends discussing about previous day cricket matches. It happens everywhere in office, school and college.
People discuss about the previous day match and it would be recap of the match.
I was wondering in recent days, why there is so much of interests among public only for cricket. I would not tell, that people are not interested about any other sports. However, on an average, majority of the time spent on sports is towards cricket by wider population.
My thought is, have we fallen shortage of sports / games to be thought about, to be encouraged, to be played???
Sometimes, some of the people feel that knowing about cricket and knowing the highlights of previous day match, is the status, pride for themselves. And the people who are not aware of the same, are not up to the status. Actually, it gives me different thinking!
Though there are lot of different version of cricket matches like, one day matches, test matches, T20.. I feel after the arrival of IPL, the entire focus is shifted towards it during the given period of time and more of the people are interested towards IPL! After understanding the pulse and interest of us, IPL is minting money. I would feel IPL is nothing but a business for them, and just business. They showcase it is an entertainment. I would not tell, we should not watch IPL and this is not my view, right from my first point. My view is, we should encourage other sports as well, for the players to play well in the other sports and fetch medals for India, which we are lagging now. Though our encouragements alone will not fetch players, athletes and medals. However, it may shift the focus of the government to fund more for athletes for them to concentrate and fetch medals for our country.
Also, I have been thinking about our old games which are taught by our granny and grandpa. I would like to mention some of the highlights of them. For example, one of the ancient games in South India, known as "Pallankuzhi" (in Tamil). There would be 7 pits where, either tamarind seeds or cowry shells are used to fill the pits and play the game. This game is specially increases the co-ordination between eyes and hands, increases the count thought process and it was taught to children from young age to get practiced. There are many other physical sports, martial arts emerged from India, which are dying down without the encouragements.
My point is not against cricket. I am happy that I could see guys are trained during recent days for football practice in the ground which is beside my flat.
Lets encourage other sports and games as well, so that more players are developed in them as well!!!
People discuss about the previous day match and it would be recap of the match.
I was wondering in recent days, why there is so much of interests among public only for cricket. I would not tell, that people are not interested about any other sports. However, on an average, majority of the time spent on sports is towards cricket by wider population.
My thought is, have we fallen shortage of sports / games to be thought about, to be encouraged, to be played???
Sometimes, some of the people feel that knowing about cricket and knowing the highlights of previous day match, is the status, pride for themselves. And the people who are not aware of the same, are not up to the status. Actually, it gives me different thinking!
Though there are lot of different version of cricket matches like, one day matches, test matches, T20.. I feel after the arrival of IPL, the entire focus is shifted towards it during the given period of time and more of the people are interested towards IPL! After understanding the pulse and interest of us, IPL is minting money. I would feel IPL is nothing but a business for them, and just business. They showcase it is an entertainment. I would not tell, we should not watch IPL and this is not my view, right from my first point. My view is, we should encourage other sports as well, for the players to play well in the other sports and fetch medals for India, which we are lagging now. Though our encouragements alone will not fetch players, athletes and medals. However, it may shift the focus of the government to fund more for athletes for them to concentrate and fetch medals for our country.
Also, I have been thinking about our old games which are taught by our granny and grandpa. I would like to mention some of the highlights of them. For example, one of the ancient games in South India, known as "Pallankuzhi" (in Tamil). There would be 7 pits where, either tamarind seeds or cowry shells are used to fill the pits and play the game. This game is specially increases the co-ordination between eyes and hands, increases the count thought process and it was taught to children from young age to get practiced. There are many other physical sports, martial arts emerged from India, which are dying down without the encouragements.My point is not against cricket. I am happy that I could see guys are trained during recent days for football practice in the ground which is beside my flat.
Lets encourage other sports and games as well, so that more players are developed in them as well!!!
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