Is cricket the one of the  best game in India and Why?
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It is popular in India because other international team sports are either not popular enough in other countries or too competitive.  For instance soccer and basketball may be more popular internationally and offer bigger salaries but they are  highly competitive and India is unlikely to win a World Cup or World Championship.  Hockey is not popular enough and there is no money for players.  Cricket is the right balance, enough countries play it to make it a lucrative career and India is competitive enough to win World Cups and even become the number 1 ranked team.
51322
Cricket is a much better game than not only Baseball but also than any other games.\nCricket is played and is supported by the people all over the world,but Baseball is mainly played in USA.
1134509
Cricket-its a better sport. Football-its just overall boring.
1062167
I love both - but for very different reasons.  Football is a lot faster-paced and easier to pick up on.  It's much more accessible as there aren't a million rules to stick to.  Everyone in the world who can find something to kick can already begin to appreciate it.  Cricket is more restricted because of the need for a pitch, boundaries, wickets, gear, bats and the ball itself - not to mention rules like bowling with a straight arm (give or take 15 degrees), LBW etc.\n\nBoth are extremely tactical games, and both also have their moments of beauty although cricket sceptics may disagree.  Watching Brazil and Argentina play can leave you breathless with awe, but the same can happen in cricket too, when you witness an unplayable delivery or an exquisite cover drive.\n\nIn terms of watching them live, they are both brilliant in different ways.  Watching live cricket is as much about the atmosphere, the picnics, the papers and the bubbly as it is about the sport itself.  Watching live football is about getting sucked into the noise, the singing and the sheer passion.\n\nIn the end, my analogy between football and cricket involves computer games.  Football is like a first person shooter, you go in guns blazing and look for action and thrills.  Cricket is more like an adventure game, where you play a character and get involved in a longer, more winding plotline.
628720
yes because there are not that many place to play and practice as in the US, because cricket is big in India.
659647
YES.\nTHATS WHY I WATCH IT A ACTION PACKED MOVIE.\n\nNEVER THOUGHT CRICKET AS A TRUE GAME.
594772
BEST OF THE TWO GOT THE PRIDE.\n\nITS A BITTER TRUTH.INDIAN TEAM IS NOT STRONGEST AS YOU THINK.\n\nENJOY THE CRICKET WITH 3RD PERSON ATTITUDE.\nYOU WILL FIND MORE TRUTHS ANT CHEATS.
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of course, its frickin awesome. I mean you cannot argue with one billion hooligans around the world loving every minute of it. I have played for almost 15 years and it is an amazing sport.
291550
It's a thinking man's game.  There is a lot of strategy.  Yes, it can be boring to watch at times, but there is so many things going on in the game that the casual viewer misses.  I watch the "game within the game".  For example, when there is a good base stealer on base and a pitcher tries to keep him close to the base.  Baseball is also a numbers game.  Baseball is the best game for satistics.  It is also nice to compare players and eras.
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Cricket - Involves more skills, strategy, stamina...\n\nYou can easily enjoy Cricket without your team winning...Its just the beauty of the sport..\nunlike football..where to love a team you have to hate the others...or the concept of 'hooliganism' or for that matter the very nature of football being a rough game involving body charges,rough tackles lots of warning cards....etc etc...\n\nCricket is a soothing game
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Few have already given u links to sites with rules. So I'll mainly go through the 'cool' aspects of the game-- how it enhances your cricket watching experience. you can always get rules by doing a search\n\n1) You can get back from office or school & still have an entire action-packed game. It’s just like going for a movie or a football game\n2) Game watching experience in TV--the game is not just a reduced cricket match-but an entirely new commercial package!!\n\n*Sky sports, the official broadcasters of the game, has introduced the idea 'man on mic' .so you can actually hear from a player, when the match is in progress. So commentators can actually talk with a fielder just as he takes a catch & so on. Isn’t that cool-you get to hear all the strategies being worked out, captains justifying sudden change in field placements....\n\n*Helmet cam  -you can actually watch the ball from a batsman's perspective, with a camera attached to the helmet\n\n3)'Bowl Out'-It brings all the excitement of a penalty shoot out into the game of cricket! It comes into play when a match gets tied. Players from both the sides are made to bowl at stumps without batsmen in front!! (Its a rare occurrence though-I Think it just happened twice in history. once in international level & once in semifinals of the English twenty-20 cup-but it sure is great fun)\n\n4) Free hit -In normal cricket batsman can't take advantage of a no-ball as in most cases the call is made after the bowl is played. In twenty-20 the ball after a no-ball is a free hit. Batsmen can get prepared to slog the ball-& the crowd starts to roar just as the bowl is about to be bowled & when he misses it .......the roar ends as a low echo-\n\n5) You can see some good improvisation when batsmen just try to invent new shorts for quick scoring! & some good balling at the dead-mixing of yorkers ,slower balls...& plenty of action. Its entertainment guaranteed.
480215
Nowadays, cricket is becoming a lousy sport. Now people don't think of cricket of a sport, but as if it is a religion which can be named as 'Cricketism' . It is not played like a proper game like football where the manager of a team should choose the players very carefully so that the team wins. But now politics is an important thing going on in cricket. And I think that my country, India, is causing such a problem like the harrassment of former captain Sourav Ganguly. They can keep a pitch which the home team loves so that the away team loses. So the home team wins just like that and get points from ICC which is the International Cricket Council. It is not like football where anything can happen and the pitch of the stadium is just like any other grass pitch of a football game. So the game can't be predictable. Who plays the game better wins. But in cricket, the home team plays in its strength and the away team plays in its weakness. You may also see that though Bangladesh loses to Australia in home, they play better than they play in Australia. But you see in football. Anything can happen. See, Barcelona has defeated AC Milan in an away game but drew in a home game or it can happen as Arsenal has defeated Villareal at Highbury but has drew at Villareal's stadium. Even my Physical Education teacher says that cricket is a lousy game these days. Only 20 countries play cricket. But , games like football and tennis are popular in almost all the countries. Cricket is not a sport in the Olympics. These are the side effects of cricket. So, whenever says to me what is your favourite sport, I say football instead of cricket. And you see, its just a waste of time. Can you believe it, for five days the same match is going to be played. And that is not a delay. How funny.
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Football is the best, it's very competitive, where any team can beat anyone, it's not like that in most other sports. It's a simple game, anyone can learn it and understand with a little time. In most game it's close, making it exciting and this keeps people glued to the game. It's also very fun to play, well, that's if you don't mind taking a hit or two.\n\nBaseball is fun to play, but anymore it's the same teams winning and loosing year after year. It's also a slow game.
391604
YESSS. It not only is a very fun game. It combines skill, exercise, teamwork and winning. If thats not a sport what is?
1015204
basketball and cricket are my favourite sports.
944315
no it is just that the indian team in cricket is better than any other indian team in another sport \nif india had to enter the world cup of football and win it then may be football can overshadow cricket in india\njust as tennis is being popular because SANIA MIRZA is the only indian woman to have seeded higher
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No no, every country should play like India, and nowadays we get to see so many matches... its great, and seeing Dhoni, Yuvraj play for India is even cooler!