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It is easy to say all this, will any of you let ur kids just pursue sports over engineering, medicine.. chasing money and professional degrees. Please…. It is a mindset issue too
How come parents allow kids to play cricket?!
Perhaps, Indian women team may be stronger and may eventually qualify for the World Cup one day, if resources are provided for their training.
Look at the US men vs women team!
India doesn’t have the infrastructure and nobody is interested in investing in infrastructure. I don’t want to blame it all on Cricket, but that’s where most of the money goes. Sponsors, academies , leagues at every level - all belong to cricket. Because 1983 made it the sport that masses follow
That extends to all other sports, most kids or their parents won’t want their kids to train for gymnastics or football- where would they even start? You want to pursue cricket ? More than likely you will find a coach or an academy in your city. That is football in Africa or South America - football can be a legit career, even if you just manage to play for local clubs.
Also, GDP numbers don’t mean anything. India is poorer compared to South Africa when it comes to actual purchasing power. Goes without saying that developed countries are many times richer and they can develop infrastructure for all kinds of sport.
There is also the factor that India isn't really a magnet for immigrants, never truly will be. And that means India always needs to find its athletes in house versus relying on immigrants at least to seed a competitive team and inspire a country.
Saurabh Netravalkar is your example for the US the other way round, not that cricket will ever be a nationwide sport in the US but at least to get participation in the WC.
Every 4 years such posts come around. A lot of it I feel is fomo driven. We see everyone around us having a good time passionately supporting their teams. But we just follow for the sake of it or because we like the sport but we aren't able to have the same passion. Ans then when the cricket world cup comes around, nobody including the media here seems to really care. And that's why we feel left out.
We dont have the soccer/football culture + lack of infrastructure (facilities, systems, role models). IMO you need one or the other to rise in that sport.
Apart from cricket, we have done well in shooting, badminton, wrestling, chess etc purely based on thriving culture (in pockets of the country) and those pockets having infra/systems/guidance).
Also, we still don’t have a homegrown app that is global with so much tech talent. There is something wrong at grassroot level.
I agree. But it is not just the working culture. India really hasn't evolved on the socio-economic front. Everything is far too traditional and conservative to ever allow us to grow socially and economically. And then the population issue is something no government truly wants to address as a problem and it has been this way decades.