Bhogle, Harsha (2010 March). Harsha Bhogle: The rise of
Cricket, the Rise of India [Video File].
This
TED talk featured Harsha Bhogle, a popular Cricket commentator describes the
rise of Cricket in India. Cricket in India can be compared to the National
Football League or the National Basketball League of the United States. Cricket
used to take more than a day to complete just one game, and was only played by
native Indians. After winning the world cup of a new form of cricket, more
people began to pick up the game. The game changed again to 20-20 cricket and
again India was successful against the rest of the world. Now instead of just
playing as a national team city teams were beginning to form. These teams were
then bought by celebrities and other wealthy people and a league was then
formed. The city teams played against each other and the contracts of the
players were in the millions of dollars for the first time. Also, teams were
bringing in players from other countries to come and play for the city teams.
The
sports culture in India has begun to change. The Indian culture has adapted to
the new and prominent western sports culture. The western sports culture is
more about individual players and teams then about the nation as a whole. The
athletes in India are beginning to make millions of dollars through their
contracts and through their endorsements. The eastern world is beginning to
make the change to the more individualistic western form of culture for the
sports world at least.
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