Indians have won 5 out of 12 Gold medals in World youth Chess Championship, Yesterday our Badminton Girl lost in finals as also in other sports activities. Cricket is played in very few countries. Mostly in South East Asia. There also we are 4th from bottom. Still why so much hipe for only cricket and neglect other sports?
2006-11-11 15:06:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Cricket
excepting soccer, tennis, athletics, swimming, and field hockey, no other sports enjoys global popularity ...
India is pretty bad in terms of world ranking in all of these and have not won any international tournament worth mentioning in last two-three decades (Paes-Bhupati, PT Usha being rare exceptions) ...
world-wide, chess gets poor publicity because it's more of a mind-game than sports ...
badminton is popular only in parts of Europe (mainly Scandinavia) and in Far East (Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Korea, etc.) and only Gopichand has made any mark here in post-Padukone era ...
only in cricket, India has produced some world-class players (e.g., Azhar, Tendulkar, Kumble, Dravid, Ganguly, etc.) in post-WC-1983 era - so all the media & public attention goes there ...
2006-11-11 19:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are right as said "Cricket is played in very few countries", but in India number of followers of cricket are more than any other sport. This may be the first reason why media is giving more concentration and converage on this game. Second every business looks gain. Cricket is the only sport where all people spend their time and money because of its popularity and thrilling wins of matchs !!!!
Partially I am disagree with your question, media are trying to promote other games as well, DD live telecasted Chess tournaments,hockey touranments,football matchs,tennis and many other sports also.
Every enterpenure looks healthy business, no one wants to do for charity.Cricketers made cricket high profile sport in all aspects.
2006-11-11 17:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
G'day Shrikant B,
Thank you for your question.
Certainly, the Indian media gives a lot of publicity to cricket. Presumably, they do it because there is a great deal of increase in cricket in India. Sometimes, cricket issues are given much more publicity than they deserve as with the so-called pushing at the Champions Cup.
The media certainly should highlight other sporting achievements such as the ones that you mentioned.
Regards
2006-11-11 15:19:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer lies in your question itself. You call her the "badminton girl". I thought she had a name. And possibly you don't recall it. When you simply don't know her name, why blame others for neglecting cricket.
It isn't just the media at fault, each one of us is wrong. Because we don't even read newspaper reports on other sport, so why would the media highlight them? They have got to sell newspapers - or get viewership as well.
The day you go out to buy tickets to watch a hockey match or a badminton tournament - or even watch it on TV, things would change.
2006-11-11 18:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by pressurekooker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Media, a commercial activity, follows the law of demand and supply. The money laden BCCI naturally attracts the bees of media and you can not escape the focus on cricket for some time to come.
2006-11-11 15:15:38 · answer #5 · answered by cvrk3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 16:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MEDIA GIVE PUBLICITY TO CRICKET BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE CRICKET. MEDIA IS ONLY GET ADVANTAGE THAT THEY ADVERTISE THE CRICKET BUT DEAR IT IS WRONG.
2006-11-11 20:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by RAMAN IOBIAN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-11-11 15:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by Sekar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, they shud gv equal importance to hockey, chess, tennis to make people gain interest in them too
2006-11-11 16:18:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they r playing their part in killing other games...
2006-11-11 17:15:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋