Cricket is not only a game in the ordinary sense but a passionate pasttime and a model one for umpteen number of youngsters in India. It has not been a global game like foot-ball or tennis but it was thought to be a fashionable and aritocratic game for a favoured few. It has been a tremendous transformation from such a position to a common man's arena. How do you take it otherwise inasmuch as a man like Mahendra Singh Dhoni from a rural background at Ranchi leading a winning team of world class players mainly hailing from from metro towns in the run-up to World Cup in South Asia.
The rich game of cricket was expected to yield a sum of Rs 700 crore during the World Cup of 2011 in advertising revenue alone. The whole nation salutes the Team India for having won the Cup on the home turf after a gap of 28 years. India is lucky to have a world-famous cricketer Sachin Tendukar amongst us at this juncture of Indian Cricket History and the whole nation feels proud of him and wish him further strength and unbeaten performance in world cricket.
The nation and the citizens including sportsmen and sports authorities should encourage and promote athletic events, games like foot-ball, hockey, base-ball, badminton, basket-ball, volley-ball etc where thousands and thoudands of people can participate, exercise and bring gold medals to India in Olympics like China.
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