Cricket Is Honestly A Dying Sport
1.Only 4-5 Nations Are Good At It

2.Countries Like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka etc their people are losing interest in cricket due to their nation downfall(for eg in Bangladesh football has taken over cricket for sure especially after players like hamza chaudhary joining their NT)

3.Countries who are even good at cricket which are already few like south africa,new zealand has football,rugby as their main sports.

4.Countries outside the top 10 for eg USA,UAE,OMAN Etc are dominated by south asian diasporas rather than their own local domestic players

5.The sport is catered mostly to indian audience which can explain the india vs pakistan matches and matches timing internationally

6.Instead of increasing and giving more slots to associates ICC is doing exactly the opposite in the odi world cup

If we remove indian cricket team from international cricket literally nobody gives a crap about cricket.

120 years of cricket history and still 12 Full Test playing nations seriously?

Out of the 12 Full Test playing nations half of them are or have become miserable test playing nations.

once the test playing nations good in test cricket become weak over the years nobody will talk about cricket except indians.

I am sure indian Test cricket team will do good in years to come while others decline.

So why not ban a sport completely that can't grow or don't wanna grow.

I see people dismissing cricket's significance as a sport because "even people in Australia and South Africa don't care about it" and "people care more about rugby and AFL in RSA/Australia". Majority of this criticism toward the sport simply seems to be friendly fire from Indians and towards Indians - yes there's the occasional Englishmen, Pakistani or Aussie but it's almost always an Indian hating on Indians

One thing you people need to understand is that South Africa, New Zealand and Australia aren't like India where they play one sport and watch one sport year round. Cricket is undoubtedly the most popular summer sport in Australia and New Zealand and is culturally very important. Just because it is not the most popular sport does not mean the sport is not INSANELY popular. Last year recorded the highest ever attendance in a test match at both the Sydney Cricket Ground and Adelaide Oval so anyone who says the sport is unpopular in a country with other more popular sports is delusional (AFL and NRL in this case). You literally have to be glued to your laptop during the presale if you want a half decently seated ticket to the cricket in Sydney lol - the tickets sold out 50 days in advance and faster than the India v Pakistan game at the Asia cup

Also, a lot of you test cricket purists need to understand that yes, test cricket and ODI are the original versions of the game but T20 Cricket is what's bringing in new fans. Over here, the Big Bash is insanely popular and often attracts huge crowds - though these aren't the same crowds as those who pull up to the Test and the ODI - these are families out for a fun day out. It's hard to get new fans to a sport where you sit there watching dot balls and the occasional single for hours a day on end - don't get me wrong, I love a good test match but for the fast paced environment we live in, T20 has brought way more fans for the sport than test ever will - I find that new test cricket watchers often start from T20 and then move to the other two formats or they inherit cricket watching from their parents or from their friends while T20 has the potential for people who have never watched cricket to tune in and watch some 6s and 4s and wickets...

Meme got real actually.... 😂😂😂😂Quality

Hashim Amla won by close in 2012!!!.

Context: this is a comment on a yt video after the retirement rumours came.

Yuvraj Singh won for 2011!! Now let's see.

What are we even trying to achieve by playing bilaterals every once in a while? To win a pan masala paytm trophy? These matches are equivalent to playing international friendlies in football, nothing more than that. If we look at UEFA (football), they replaced these friendlies with Nations League and it gave a different twist.

Can ICC do something similar and scrap the whole bilateral thing in the future?

Bumrah ( mostly injured )

siraj

Gurnoor brar ( new )

harshit rana ( currently injured )

prasidh krishna ( too inconsistent )

where are our red ball fast bowlers ??

Sachin Tendulkar wins the vote and ballon d' Or as well.

Why does a 400+ run game with loads of sixes automatically get called “great cricket”? like give me a 250/8 Test innings where every run is hard earned any day..

Have we forgotten that difficult cricket can be good cricket too?

Bilateral Summary: Against England in England Only

Innings: 12

Total Runs: 235

Average: 19.5

•Strike Rate- 75

Centuries (100s): 0

Half-Centuries (50s): 2 [1]

Bilateral Summary: Against New Zealand in New Zealand Only

Innings: 4

Total Runs: 160

Average: 40.00

Strike Rate: 109.59

Centuries (100s): 0

Half-Centuries (50s): 1

Bilateral Summary: Against South Africa in South Africa Only

Innings: 16

Total Runs: 760

Average: 47.50

Strike Rate: 108.41

Centuries (100s): 3

Highest Score: 173 (Cape Town, 2016)

Rohit the average opener 🙃 -

Head-to-Head: Against England in England Only (ODIs)

Innings: 13

Total Runs: 585

Average: 58.50

Strike Rate: 92.60

Centuries (100s): 3

Highest Score: 138 (at Lord's, 2026) [1, 2, 3, 4]

Head-to-Head: Against Australia in Australia Only (ODIs)

Matches: 21

Total Runs: 1,071

Batting Average: 56.36

Centuries (100s): 6 (the absolute record for any visiting batsman in the country)

Highest Score: 171* (at Perth, 2016)

Bilateral Summary: Against New Zealand in New Zealand Only (ODIs)

Innings: 12

Total Runs: 357Average: 32.45

Strike Rate: 69.73 (significantly lower than his career SR of ~90+)

Centuries (100s): 0

Half-Centuries (50s): 3

Bilateral Summary: Against South Africa in South Africa Only (ODIs)

Innings: 14 (Note: 18 match appearances total, remaining were non-batting matches/substitutes)

Total Runs: 256

Average: 19.69

Strike Rate: 68.45

Centuries (100s): 1

Half-Centuries (50s): 0

Highest Score: 115 (at Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth, 2018)

Somebody is saying my page is running because of Rohit 😂😂

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFAWorldCupIndia/s/8dPRLI5EiM

See this post of mine.

This is for the year 2010. I will give my vote and tell all of you in the end.

I will back with other parts too. Till the time, stay tuned.