IPL

Well, The IPL or the Indian Premier league is almost half over for this year! 8 franchises from 8 cities in India slogging it out in South Africa! It is so sad that the IPL could not be conducted in India because of the elections which itself is a major farce because if it had been conducted. more people would have been able to empty their pockets a little more and waste some money along with the time that they are already wasting!! So sad!



What is it with Indians and cricket?? People here believe that it is a religion! Right, even in this game, even with all this "craze" India has not been able to become the champions among a handful of countries that play this game! You can see hundreds of young kids ( most of them basically unfit ) going for cricket coaching classes with their entire cricket kits! Kids, dont waste so much of your parents money! They work hard for it...only go to these classes if you have some talent!! Or else you will be bragging all your life about playing at the local level only and never making it big!



Frankly speaking, cricket is one of the sports where the people playing are most unfit! Some people hardly have to move!! Take other games which are more renowned globally and recognised as well like hockey, soccer, tennis etc and see the fitness level required in themand also the state our country is in!! Hockey the sport that our country once dominated the world over has no players other than people from Punjab thanks primarily to the rise of cricket! Our soccer team was amogst the top 5 in Asia and was a huge craze among people all over India but now, hardly a few people play the beautiful game and those who want to pursue it as a career are deterred by lack of sponsors which flock to the cricketing arena!! In tennis, two shining gems of India have only been able to hold our flag high.. the rest have purely failed!!

Take into account the number of countries that play the game of cricket regularly and you come to know the popularity of it worldwide! Basically it is less than 10...while most will argue it is well over 50! Now consider games such as hockey and soccer..
Hockey has over a 100 teams that can play and can upset any team on its day!
Soccer has always been the most popular sport..to prove which FIFA, the governing body has more countries registered than the UN!
Frankly, it is humiliating to know that our country cant even be the best in a sport that is played by a minority and how crores of people here are so proud of our sporting achievements in this game!!