Cricket Is A Religion That Unites India

Cricket in India is more than a sport; it is appropriate to call it the religion of India. Over the years, especially after India's rather unexpected triumph in the 1983 World Cup, cricket has emerged as the de facto national sport of the nation, displacing hockey from its long-held position. The volume of crowd pulled by cricket in India be it a test or one dayer is much higher than anywhere else.

You don't even need to visit the place where India is involved in a cricket match with some other country. The whole country gets into the 'cricket pulse'. Schools, colleges, offices, homes, tea stalls anywhere and everywhere you will find people engrossed in discussing cricket. Everyone seem to have an opinion on whatever happens on the field. If not that then what is India's cricket pulse?

Obviously cricket news draws lot of attention in print or in electronic media . Considering the huge fan following and importance of cricket in India media houses also give lot of emphasis on cricket news. Cricket news is now often treated as a lead item, something almost unimaginable a few years ago. Sachin Tendulkar's latest century does not attract eyeballs if shown as a most important news on TV or newspaper. It just goes to show how deep India's cricket love is.

Cricket fans who fail to make it to the field keep track by following live cricket scores. Nowadays you can check the live cricket scores either on TV or going online . Your TV or computer enables you to catch up on what's happening in the field.

Many cricket lovers miss the action being in office or working late. Keeping such people in mind, many sports channels telecast cricket highlights in which the important portions of the game is shown. Intelligent planning of cricket highlight enables the cricket fans to have a complete idea of the action that happened on the field.

Poor performances by the Indian Hockey team relegated its status to a lesser ranked sports than cricket. Owing to the consistently good performance by Indian cricket team it has become very popular in the country. In ICC rankings India ranks no 1. Till now it 's all hunky dory but what about when they'll perform poor. With the excellent on field performances of the Indian team they have also been ranked the No.1 test team in the world as per the ICC test rankings, this has given another fillip to the cricket frenzy in India.