Will cricket takeover football?

[Richard]

Do anyone of you see cricket becoming the game of 200 nations in the next 100 years. As Football is....

My personal view is this that cricket has a lot in it but it needs to be spread carefully. Specially, ICC should play a more significant role. The upcoming teams need to be motivated and I dont think that there are much hurdles in making cricket the game of as many nations.

20/20 cricket is likely to change the game. If the new version develops as many commentators expect, there will be a proliferation of domestic leagues around the world, and cricket may end up being the most powerful sport in the world. 20/20 cricket is the first version of cricket that is suitable to a home and away format run along the lines of a football competition. A typical game starts at 5.30pm and is over by 8pm. Fans could watch the game after work, or as part of their weekly routine.

Like baseball in America, 20/20 is also a version of sport that can be played more than once a week. Potentially, a team in a domestic 20/20 cricket league could play 3 to 4 times a week, and pull annual crowds three times more than that of the football codes.

Alan Stanford, has seen the potential 20/20 to form a bridge between South and North America. With more than 20 countries involved, Stanford's 20/20 tournament is numerically the largest tournament in the Americas. Admittedly, the largest countries of the region, such as Brazil and the United States, are not represented. However, teams could be contrived relatively simply and if so, both would be fertile markets for television. If so, a small sport in the Americas could grow in a very rapid pace.

I hope cricket does become a world sport and the current number of nations increase.

 

[KBC]

If ICC will ever get their brains back from BCCI, then yes. I've written elsewhere about the globalization of cricket.

But yeah really, Cricket is the best sport never played by many. But whoever liked it and ultimately found it to be as simple and interesting as ever, The nations have Cricket over football or both rated highly.

America is Developing vastly in cricket and the recent introduction of the 20/20 league will bring lot of people.

In fact, they were the part of the first international Cricket match ever. And The first president of the United states Of America, George washington "Loved" And he's said to have immense interest in the sport.

The Baseball takeover was the reason in fact in the america's cricket downing, you see, Every associate or an affiliate country or not even members of the ICC panel who played cricket has a Reason for the sport to drop back in some way.

The world wars, many more were the facts for cricket not getting familiarized in people. Even if you go and ask any american, "You know about cricket?", you'd find they know quite a lot, but well again.. The interest which divides the people from the sport..

But, 20/20's got it's own style and people look for action and smacking scenes in sports like in baseball (which funnily originated from father cricket, they say)

China, consider them.. There have been bizarre facts if you speak about cricket in their region. Well, There have been followers of cricket and even played for cricket like the Ellis Achong (West Indies), Great Hunter Poon (Australia), Percy Stanbrook Evans (England), and many. In fact, they were of the chinese origin, but many shifted to cricketing nations to get more of the sport.

China has known the value and the joy of cricket and know the government introduced the sport from school levels, to be more meaningful, every school in china gets to play cricket.

Talking about the middle-eastern countries, The malaysia, singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia, Phillipines, Taiwan, have raised their bars and have their own official cricket organizations.

Japan in particular, The country in which if cricket was played from centuries, they could've be a strong team in world cricket.

Unfortunately yes, There are Lot of countries and the talents to mention, Every year, 10-20 countries gain the Cricket value.

The media, the funds, organizations, these all are particularly the keys of unlocking the cricket power into the world. If they somehow help cricket to gain at places, then talents would naturally come as well as the money for the much needed.

Cricket is one sport, out of all, you could gain money for living at least if determined efforts are made, and most of the world is missing the sport.

Cricket would be global, far earlier than we can ever think of, but if proper and disciplined organizations are developed, then we can fight the rebels, the discrimination, controversies which lie in cricket, and that's our main aim for making cricket global.

 

[Leggie]

I want to have a selfish moment now...I hope it does!

 

[JD10]

I hope it would but the key would be 20/20

 

[Leggie]

It doesn't have to be though...

 

[cricketfrantic]

Twenty20 is the only viable format to make it popular around the world.

Anyway who cares:cool: It will remain no.1 in India and other cricketing nations bar some.

 

[King Pietersen]

No chance. Cricket's not going to make it in countries like the US, Canada, wouldn't be successful in most of Europe either I don't imagine. Saying that though, last time I was in Spain we were having a game of cricket on the beach and a few Spanish people stopped to watch us play for abit wondering what it was we were playing . Can't ever see Cricket making it big around the world though, it's not even particularly big in England, I was never given the oppurtunity to play the sport at High School for example, so it's got no chance in the US.

 

[Dr. Pepper]

I actually don't want it to. The only way it's going to go global is with Twenty twenty cricket. So if it does go global, we're going to have even more T20. I think it's good the way it is with a selected population of cricket fans.

 

[aussie1st]

I don't think true cricket will even become global enough to take over football. 20/20 will be the form that is promoted in other countries so they won't see 50 over or Test cricket anywhere near as exciting so it will never become big for them. It might overtake football in Canada and USA who aren't really that big on it anyway but it will never match the NBA, NHL or NFL.

Would be great if it did become more global but with football already taking over a lot of the countries it hard to see cricket coming anywhere near those numbers.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1265665&postcount=45

I think it is possible if done well, but chances are slim. And with the ICC in charge, near impossible.

 

[Kev]

Will cricket ever overtake football in terms of a globally popular sport?

In short - not a chance.

Could go for a long post as to why, but I'm pretty sure this question has been asked a few times before here.

 

[cricketspur]

Cricket vs Football

Cricket will never be as big as football because with football, kids can just start kicking a ball around and they are playing the game. With cricket, you need bat, stumps, ball etc etc so its not as accessible.

 

[McLOVIN]

Anyway who cares:cool: It will remain no.1 in India and other cricketing nations bar some.

have fun playing with your self

 

[KBC]

There have been many things where we said "no" with the most determination, and yet, they've been proved wrong.

Time will tell. Enough said.

 

[smssia0112]

Not in my lifetime, that's for sure.

Aside from that though, cricket will never be in direct competition with soccer, because soccer is a winter sport and cricket is a summer sport. I have hopes that someday cricket will become the world's biggest summer sport, but beyond that I doubt it.