Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Cricket - Most Loved Sports in India


Cricket is no new in India. It is one of the most loved sports by Indians from long time. Cricket – this game is played from pre-independence, and love towards it continues ever lastingly. This bat and ball game has created passion among many Indians. And the game has seen spontaneous success over years and years. Earlier Indian cricket team was among one of the weaker teams in its first 50 years of international cricket and it took almost 20 years for Indian cricket team to achieve its first test victory.

Later, Indian cricket started seeing good movements and then huge improvements in presence of great talented cricketers like Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Bishan Sign Bedi, Lala Amarnath, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Virendra Sehwag, Ms Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and many more.

India has given many talented players to cricket sports industry and it is one of the strongest team now. Indian team has won world cup twice, once in 1983 under captaincy of Kapil Dev and other in year 2011 under captaincy of MS Dhoni. In 2007 Indian team has also won ICC World Twenty20 and ICC Champions Trophy in 2013. Currently India ranks 1st for Test, 2nd for ODI and 2nd for T20 as per ICC rankings.

Cricket is most loved and played game in India. Most of us have seen and played cricket since childhood. Our youths admire cricket a lot and in every corner of the India there is at least one player who wants to be a big cricketer and want to play for Indian team. And why not they? We have such great cricket legends in front of us as an inspiration.

These leaders have shown us that cricket can be played by anyone who has true love and determination towards it. The one who has true passion and dedication towards it. Doesn’t matter from which city or state you are your love towards cricket will take you high.
Females are no way behind when it comes to cricket. As per ICC rankings women Indian cricket team ranks 1st in ODI, 5th in T20I.

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