Why Romeo hates CRICKET

"Why Romeo hates Cricket"

( From the title, you can easily guess the conclusion. But read till the end for the justification on it.)

In India, CRICKET is not a sport, it’s a religion. You could have heard this sentence many zillion times. When Romeo was a kid heused to be a crazy cricket fan like millions, sorry make it billions. He used to memorize all team players; their specialties and individual records.

At the end of last century, He came to know about the match fixings. No, this is not the only reason for his hatred against cricket. Every sport existing in this world has seen fixings. This moment actually made him realize that he didn’t select cricket as his favorite; instead cricket selected him. That means media and people around him illusion-ed it as his favorite.

*Think about this: how many options you had when you picked up cricket as your all time game?* Had interests in any other game ?.* Do you ever know any other game as deeply as this one? 90% of answer would be "NO".

1. You would, because the media never gave us a chance to get natural interest towards any other sports like this.

2. All age group people talk about cricket, cricket, and cricket all the time. If anyone in the discussion doesn’t know what a “silly point” is he is considered as silly. Or you will be alienated from the crowd. These fears push us to know in and out of all the matches taking place.

Result: Spending (wasting) whole day on behalf of this.

First of all it’s not a sport anymore; it’s a money game now. For every ball, TV channels bag crores of money; at end of every over, in between replacement of a player, breaks etc., I am not talking about individual player’s income from ads. This is about media which gains lot and time we waste on it.

This game has been perfectly designed for earning hell lot of money. Deep in my heart, Romeo don’t really like this game too much. He likes athletics than others.

Let’s watch tennis, football, basket ball, soccer, etc., all these sports holds your breath and keep you at the edge of the seat, grasping attention until the match is over. After reading this, just think once about all the questions romeo had thrown from his mind. Find yourself the answers then make the decision whether you have to follow just because many are following it or you have natural interest.

Romeo's point is not to tell anyone to hate cricket-game or cricket players. Just be a selector yourself just as you have selected your toys, cars, houses, life-partner, etc., Don’t simply follow the crowd.