The Importance Of Cricket

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Sports have been one of the avenues that have united people around the world. People have been able to put aside their differences to enjoy a good sporting event. One sport that has demonstrates such togetherness is cricket. Cricket has evolved over the years to becoming its own sports territory. There is a hierarchy of teams and players based on their performances at the matches. This makes Cricket the type of sport that has its culture, its people, its influence and its treasures.
Cricket is played by an eleven (11) member team consisting on batsmen and bowlers. This sport has certainly lived up to its expectation of the word team, as seen in the video, with every player contributing towards to a goal, winning the match. The players represent …show more content…

To the fans, being at the game is very important as they get to enjoy and to witness, be part of, the record breaking moments. The presence of the many fans at the stadium has kept the game on its high horse. Fans have moved from being most males at the beginning to seeing more females in the later years, and now it has become a family oriented sport. Every man, woman and child can share in the excitement of the game. The fans take the game to the homes, the beach, the streets, the schools, or anywhere a bat, a ball and a pitch is available. Young and old, rich or poor, no matter what language you speak, you are fans. There is no class with cricket. There are just teams; everyone belongs to a cricket team, just as seen in the 2011 cricket song video. The teams performs well the fans are elated, the team performs badly, the fans are disappointed but they are still cricket fans and would attend or watch the next cricket match. We the fans in the West Indies are famous for this reaction, if our team loses the match, we complain, but we are still up early in the morning or we gather long the street side, in shops, at home, at work, anywhere we get to watch the next match. And if we win, it’s the topic until the next match. So it builds up the expectation of the people. Everyone waiting in anticipation of which team will be victorious at the next match. This is what cricket means to its people, it’s more than just a game, and it’s a

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