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Ban test & one day cricket. Stop patronising cricketers
by Ram Sharma on Jul 28, 2008 11:55 AM

Ban test & one day cricket, these r very time consuming. USA banned cricket long ago. Only 20-20 is ok.

Stop patronising cricketers. Cricket is played only in a few former British colonies, hence there is not much of a competition and we r not even at the top. But all these cricketers earn crores of rupees, whereas players of other games don't get even basic requirements. This causes people from their childhood to go for cricket. Like Sourabh was told by his uncle to change to cricket from football. Had he remained playing football, he would hv remianed poor. Now no other games r played by common people bcz of this as well as bcz of media focus on cricket. All this is due to our patronising cricket, which is killing other games. We do not get any gold in Olympic, China gets in hundreds and even small and poor countries, like Ethiopia get gold medals.

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