-by Edith Newton
The Indian subcontinent is home to multifarious sports
with one being predominant, the game of Cricket! To be honest, and to do full
justice to its ardent followers and diehard fans of great cricketers namely
Sachin, MS Dhoni or Virat, Cricket has become just another religion in the
nation! The Indian Cricketers today, are among those few people, for whom just
the first name is enough to imply the scale of everything else, also making
some of them having the highest brand and marketable value! Desperation of the
nation to follow Cricket is touching such heights that it has become genuinely
hard for the Indian nationals to believe and even remember that the National
Sport of India is Hockey (let’s not forget that our national sport failed to
qualify to the Beijing Olympics), and not Cricket!
Except for Cricket and a little bit of Badminton (all
thanks to PV Sindhu’s Olympic Silver and Saina Nehwal’s Commonwealth Gold apart
from being former World No. 1), other sports like Table Tennis, Archery and
Chess have long been forgotten! Also, despite Sania Mirza being former World
No. 1 in Women’s Doubles, India is lagging far behind in the sport.
To add to the unjust grounds of the lesser played sports
in India, Cricket gets the best sponsors and team of some of the most
experienced managers and agents in the country. Therefore, to give a thumbs-up
to the stature of sports in India would be unfair. As is evident from the lack
of motivation by most Indian parents, children are hesitant to express their
desire to go further and gain perfection in sports. There is a great need to
respect all sports and encourage the coming generations to openly express
themselves and prove their talent and abilities in this sphere, if they wish
to!
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