As an English man I love seeing the passion and joy on the faces of Indian cricket fans, I don't know why, but I love it that they have made cricket their own.
Even though cricket was popular in India before 1983 but not as much. India were the underdogs in the 1983 world cup and then went on to win the whole thing while completing a crazy comeback in the final is the reason why cricket is so popular in India.
Actually MLC(major league cricket) in USA has already successfully completed one season last year. It was a success and they are continuing next season also.
The beauty of test cricket over 5 days is that you don't really need to concentrate on it, you can spend 5 days just having it on in the background on the TV and keep up with it. I don't think anyone is sitting there for 5 days straight staring at the TV.
Luke, don’t be pessimistic about how cricket will takeoff in the US. Get involved, find a team, enjoy it and be one of the first to help the game grow. A lot of young people in the US find baseball boring, so like you said they might enjoy cricket more.
19:50 NFL like cricket dominate broadcasting value simply because they have more breaks than other sports. More breaks = more opportunities to advertise so braodcasters are willing to pay more
Hi, Indian here. Been watching for a couple of months now. For me the three formats of cricket represent different viewing experiences. Test is a battle of endurence skill technique. Its a beautiful canvas on which both both teams paint. However there is less action per ball and more importance on tatics. Where as t20 games are action packed with each ball being way more important and exciting. Not saying that itss not as technical but t20 has an air of unpredictability as games can swing from side to side and we see less stroke making and more power shots. This makes t20 way easier for non traditional cricketing countries to come into the game of cricket.
A great Test match is like an epic sweeping narrative in a novel saga series and a T20 is like your favourite graphic novel. Both can be enjoyed but provide different entertainment experiences.
The reason why the NBA was so low in that chart is because there's well over a thousand NBA games in a season so the value of each individual game is miniscule when compared to the IPL or NFL which don't have too many games and bring in billions in media and streaming rights deal making each individual game highly valuable.
Actually the problem is not lack of infrastructure in football in india, we have our own football league called ISL (Indian Super League). But the problem is lack of interest. In india Cricket is the most dominated sport with humungous fan following. Only a little amount of fans show their interest in football but still it looks big to others just because of the massive population of India. So, our little fan base is almost equal to some big fan bases to others.
The idea behind launching cricket in USA is basically that there is already a significant amount of population of USA are from Indian sub continent,west indies, england, Oceania region and they already like the sport so it is easy to attract audience for cricket in usa than in other countries where the game is not prominent.
Personally i follow both cricket and football. But cricket is my favourite sport to watch and play. Because growing up India i mostly played cricket. For me it's the best game
But football is the world sport. Winning in football feels truly becoming world champion. If India wins Fifa world cup, the excitement will be thousand times more than winning cricket world cup. So keep supporting Indian football. India started focusing in football recently.
@@Impactor07 Maybe recent matches result were worse, but overall improvement is happening more than before. AIFF committee is changed. They are now following "Vision 2047" strategy. ISL teams increasing, became a promotion-relegation league which makes the league more competitive.
@@n-zedorai6613 Yeah but losing 2-1 to Afghanistan is just HORRIBLE! This is the 2nd time in our entire history that we've been defeated by Afghanistan and this wasn't even the main team, it was an A team! Also, do you know about what is happening about the sexual abuse of Indian women footballers by officials? This is just horrible
The claim that India has taken over the game may be true financially but you ask any cricket follower who are the dominant nation in cricket TODAY and they will all say Australia. In both men's and especially in women's cricket. Why? Because the matches that matter are not franchise matches between hired teams but between teams representing their countries and that will always be the case.
Not sure about “that will always be the case”. If more money is in franchise cricket, it means the majority of cricket followers enjoy franchise cricket more than international ones. Some of us are too fixated on old ideas of nation vs nation but we are a minority and honestly our opinions should not matter more than those who pay and fund Cricket, the general public.
If we are lucky and strike balance then we may become like football/soccer, where club cricket is supreme and once in a four year World Cup becomes number one. If we don’t accept the ground realities then we would become like Basketball where one hardly cares about international/ FIBA games and leagues(NBA, NBL, Euro league etc.) are everything in the sport.
@@jojo_ranjan There is a major difference here... Cricket, unlike any other major sport came to prominence as a game played between teams from different nations. Sure there was club cricket but that was always secondary to international cricket. Even as an Indian, which I am going to assume you are, what would you rather see... the Mumbai Indians winning the IPL or India winning an International trophy?
@@Raven-fh2yy Personally I love test cricket. And religiously watch it as much as possibly and just glance through scorecards for ODI and T20s. If Mumbai Indians were playing test cricket and Indian team plays t20, I would watch MI vs CSK(the best rivalry in IPL) play test match. But the world doesn’t move according to my wishes and my desires for cricket isn’t more important than any casual fan who just loves IPL or any other league. My point is more people watch and love franchise cricket than they do international cricket and their wishes should be respected if cricket wants to grow.
How did it become so big in India..? The British Empire, British soldiers and administrators took cricket with them, the Indians took it up and very much made it their own as we see
I’m very surprised this video didn’t seem to mention the establishment of World Series Cricket in 1977 as a crucial step in the evolution towards T20 and the IPL. It was literally a professional revolution in shorter form cricket with the introduction of many current features such as night cricket, coloured clothing and high quality TV coverage. Glaring miss imo.
The modernising of cricket with the expansion televising and monetising of cricket at a national level really began in late 1970's with an Australian media mogal named Kerry Packer, who introduced the idea of World Series Cricket. This introduced a number of innovations, such as paying crickers wages & appearance money (comparable to other professional athetes) the rise of the 1 day cricket format (50 over cricket) coloured uniforms, plsying cricket under lights and the use of a white ball (as it easier to see under lighhts). This initially split Australian cricket, but the n within a relatively short time a deal was brokered so that Australian Cricket & World Series Cricket essentially merged. There is documentary series callled 'Cricket in the 70's' by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which goes in to this in great detail.
As a indian i both watch cricket & football But cricket is still my fav sport because i've grown up watching it. All the memories of coming back from school, discussing the previous ipl game with my friends & watching your fav player to play from all over the world in India was so fascinating! . & that 2011 world cup win made me fall in love with this beautifull sport. Its truly said "cricket is a religion in India"
Football is very popular in some parts of India . In kerala football is the most popular sport. We even have a football league called The ISL ( Indian Super League).
Hi im from nepal and here both cricket and football are very popular and people follow both sports. I love both sports tbh but nothing can compete against football. Nepal is also playing in this year t20 world cup and might have a big impact. Keep an eye on them and love your content man.
Dont know if someone has already said this but there are Indian fans for football especially in the southern part of India. There is ISL (Indian Super League) for football like IPL for cricket. The South is crazy about football I would say as someone for the southern part of India. Note: Hindi speakers are not the only Indians!
@@isoulsearchforself if you wanted to draw a attention towards football fans from South india in particular n whole india in general to draw home your point for football crazy fans, I have no issue with that but to play typical South Indian politicians divisive politics in comment section by creating wedge between North South based on hindi language is not fair way to express opinion on any loving sports.. Because if South Indian politicians play with the linguistic insecurity sensitivities of the peoples then it can be understood but to make a point on your favorite sports by bringing in Divisive political semantics is highly immoral unethical & irrational.. And who saying that only hindi speaking people are cricket crazy fans & only hindi speaking peoples play cricket & South Indian has nothing to do with cricket & it's just North Indian dominant loving sport in India who's saying that..?
Most televised sport worldwide is domestic leagues played between franchised teams consisting of hired talent. NFL, MLB, NBA, EPL etc. These are not national sides. What they have is historic rivalries and passionate fan bases which we are now seeing develop in the IPL, BBL and other franchises. A fan base that will pay for televised matches and can be marketed to which is what drives the TV rights money. For example according to Wikipedia there are over 4 million US citizens of Indian origin which is probably enough of a potential fan base to support some form of T20 cricket without considering US citizens with roots in other traditional cricketing countries.
Test cricket is like webseries when u watch the first episode u have to watch other episodes. When days play end u ponder whole night what's gonna happen the next day.
I follow many sports just like badminton, football,lawn tennis,table tennis, olympic sports,etc But cricket is all-time favourite, we can forget everything if have time to play some cricket matches 80% countries didn't see the amount excitement in cricket After 2028 Olympic everything will be changed
I think India will continue to struggle to win a T20 World Cup as long as they prohibit their players from playing T20 in different countries franchises. A few international games is not enough experience of the different conditions
Hello, I am from West Bengal, India. Football in Bengal is extremely popular along with Cricket if not more. Goa, West Bengal and Kerala where football's popularity is immense.
Test is not fun but it's epic in terms of real cricket watchers as you see a unit will go all out playing for hours in pressure mentally and physically. Love test cricket 🏏
There are several misleading things in this video about test cricket, which has led to you saying incorrect things about test cricket. The truth is that test cricket continues to grow in popularity. The problem is that it is only financially sustainable in England, India and Australia. In our countries we can and do get time off work to attend all 5 days of a match, we can also take holidays and travel overseas to watch our team. However, the majority of people attend only one or two days or simply watch it on TV. The inability of people to comprehend 5 days for a game is also ridiculous. Golf is extremely popular and takes 4 days. Cycling is extremely popular and takes a week or more.
12:00 nobody will judge you for watching T20 over test cricket but you'll get hate if you say T20 is better than test because it is objectively untrue. Might be more entertaining but not better
See when you say it is objectively untrue, you are lying. That was a subjective opinion because I know many ( more than I actually appreciate) who consider T20 to be BETTER(not just entertaining) than Tests. Neither of you is wrong or right. Just subjective opinions. I LOVE test cricket and hardly care for T20s as much but I wouldn’t consider my opinion to be the truth / more important than others.
Hi, people rarely went to all 5 days of a test match. You bought tickets by the day and went when you could. The games always went over a weekend so that's two days and then people would go after work on weekdays for the evening sessions (it is a summer sport so light until late) - play each day continues until the umpires decide the light is not good enough to continue.
@@lukessportsacademy yeah and you would watch the rest of the match from home. Also depending on how the match plays out and when it may end you'll see day 4 or day 5 sold out because a lot of fans expect the match to end on that day.
@@lukessportsacademy what I've mentioned on other videos (but appreciate you're not going to see all comments) is think of it like this - a day at a cricket test match is not dissimilar to watching a baseball double header, it's just part of the same game - and a test match overall is not dissimilar to a baseball series, again it just happens to be one game. People may just go for 1 or 2 days and watch the rest at home or listen to the radio. Usually we watch or listen to it like many Americans watch or listen to baseball at home: you have it on in the background while you're doing something else but you might stop and properly watch a few at bats or an inning every so often - same with cricket, you might watch an over or two for example.
Indians love football or soccer, too. I believe, for average Indian physique crickets suits them more since it's more skill oriented game. Soccer also requires a stronger physique and immense stamina
Indian football fan base is immense despite of different time zone people stay awake midnight to watch EPL, LaLiga, Bundesliga n yes ipl is famous u can find fan of cricket n Manchester united
Cricket, The Original version of Baseball is back in United States of America, 3 Season of Monior League Cricket & 1at season of #MLC Major League cricket League is already happened.
Hey Buddy watched your video for the first time it was promising and knowing the fact you understand this sport so well i m was surprised ... IPL is huge that's the fact ... keep it up and all the best i m your subscriber now
Test matches are only played by the absolute best players in the world. The quality of the cricket is better than what you see at the T20 level. In T20 though you can tell who’s going to win most of the time 30 minutes before the game finishes. Test matches are so drawn out that a team isn’t really out of it and the game can hang in the balance even after 3 or 4 days.
ICC T20 WORLD CUP is being held in USA and WEST INDIES, JUNE and JULY. You buy a ticket and go checkout specially INDIA vs PAKISTAN. You will experience an atmosphere which you might be able to in any other sport event in the world
The NFL isn't dominating per se, the graph shows the cost per game not how many people are watching - there's so few NFL games compared to NBA that each game is more valuable, and with all the stops in play it's more valuable to advertisers, so the cost of a single game is higher. Of course the MLB similarly has a large number of games (too many in my opinion) but there are more stops in play than basketball so again more natural spaces to shove adverts without interrupting play. There will be other factors but I think these are key
about 700 million viewers of Cricket in india of witch 300 million also watch football and from these 300 million almost all of them are originally EPL, world cup or other league watchers in recent times Indian football starting to pull a constant viewership in its league the ISL and in the national team national team viewership is very unstable depending on the form, it can drop to a few thousand people
Those are very specific numbers - per game stats. The NBA regular season has 100s of games as each team plays 82 or whatever # they play. Same with MLB. And the playoffs also involve best of 7-game rounds. So the value of each individual game is low. The NFL plays very few games, 17 per team, so the value of each game is much higher.
As a long standing viewer of Cricket and an Indian. Here is what i can say: 1) Test cricket is like Opera (modern fast pace people don’t understand its art) 2) ODI is like a live show ( its fun but boring at times ) 3) T20 is modern movie theatre, there is twist and drama at every corner. Test is a necessary game i feel as it tests your patience and refines your basic cricketing skills. Thats the reason T20 focused players fail badly in Test matches. Whereas same is true vice versa, Test players have hard time adjusting to fast paced game. But having both gives you various skills that will be a benefit regardless. Test matches gives you defensive and passive aggression skills, skills like direct the ball rather then attempting power hit (try it and the ball will damage your wrist due to its hardness) T20 needs aggressive and power packed skills. Extremely forced shorts, run in every attempt possible. Start from get go and don’t wait to settle. Am a football fan too, my all time favourites is Chelsea. India has a lrage football following and sport is growing but we need a big breakthrough and the Indian football board AIFF needs to get its act together. There is potential and India will come up but, it needs some strong actions on ground to be taken.
@@isoulsearchforself ISL is not enough. The players or team are fixed. Not enough competition. There should be a elimination system where, underperforming players or teams are demoted to local league and top performers from local league are promoted to top league. Something like this. Till then ISL is shit. Almost all strikers are non Indians. So how do we nurture talent? All coaches are foreigners, so when will we build local coaches?
This is purely a guess but i think the nfl is so lucrative because its so much about the entertainment as opposed to the sport itself. Look at how the crowd reacted when the champions league tried to do essentially a concert before the final. Its become a thing to watch the superbowl in the same way that people stay up to watch wrestlemania or some heavyweight boxing match and we dont even know the rules. Then theres the acceptance of constant advertising.
I see where you come from.That said, it'll take time for cricket to spread through america. A possible marketing strat is to try having college baseball players try cricket and see how they feel (despite the differences in the sports, it should be relatively easy to switch between the two, as opposed to switching between basketball and American football, at least in my opinion), but I feel that'd be too much.
18:16I not jocking once India gets to play Football World CUP nd be Consistent...will take over we can make more money then any federation. I know that but the only problem is our team sucks....Check the FIFA World cup viwership country wise India 2nd or 3rd.
The video really skewed the history of change of formats and major moments in the game of cricket to show as if IPL was the only big thing happened. It completely skipped over the major events like the formation of one day cricket, 83 world cup it's transition from 60 to 50 overs, influence of reverse swing in limited overs, Kerry Packer's circus, the massively entertaining 50 over international matches that created a viewing audience throughout 90s and 2000s, India winning t20 world Cup, IPL wasn't even the only T20 league, and Big Bash Australia started soon and was genuinely good, because Australia had better pitches, but now those pitches are tired and slow and batter friendly just like India's. India only picked up IPL because India won t20 world cup and wanted to ride on the popularity that format got, had India not won the t20 world cup, things would've been very very different.
5 days test no one watches every ball bcos of life but ppl like cricket will definitely follow the score but this doesnt make buisness. Few years back WTC was introduced that save the test after Ashes and indian test games
Yes we have a massive fan following in Football (Soccer) also in India. We have a league thats is called Indian Super League. Actually Asia's oldest and biggest durby played in India between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, those teams are approx 150 years old. But honestly speaking our National team sucks in soccer.
There is literally no day in India that u go out and don't find anyone playing cricket. Everyone plays cricket very passionately. But I have never seen anyone playing football in my whole life in India.
NFL is not the highest viewership , numbers reflect sponsor paying per game. NBA per game sponsorship is lowest. It will take 100 yrs for NFL to catch up with IPL viewership
I am one of those rare Indians whose primary sport was football while growing up(Man Utd fan since 2005). However cricket has always been a part of my life. I know the basic rules and stuff, but I don't know who are the best players currently or which player is better and why, because I never followed cricket as religiously as most of my countrymen do. The last time I watched a cricket match in full was back in 2014/15 because my grandfather was a huge Indian team fan(obviously) and would not let me change the channels on TV. But neither of my parents are cricket fans so they let me play (and watch) football before I touched a cricket bat. Coming to the football vs cricket thing in India, its obvious cricket is the more popular one amongst the two. However football fans are still in huge numbers and we make majority of the global audience numbers of EPL and La Liga. Indian football has always been corrupt, neglected by the government and left to its own devices since the 70s. Therefore there are very few fans of Indian national team or Indian clubs compared to the European clubs. An attempt to change this situation happened in 2014 with the launch of Indian Super League(ISL) to try and replicate the success and effects of IPL, but a decade later, results have been mediocre so far. I will recommend HITC Sevens video to learn more about the Indian football and its current dire state. Great reaction btw!
I personally prefer Tests & I see it as the pinnacle of Cricket, though I understand as a someone studying to become a sport's statistician the appeal & simpler yet more complex & usually closer game for T20 games. Like as a statistician I love Tests for their long history & just those random stats & silly moments that just couldn't happen if the game didn't go for 5 days (See stuff like specialist batters given the ball to bowl on day 5 of a test to give the bowlers a bit of rest) ODIS to me feel like a nothing format but it's a good format for limited orders players to show off their skills in a more controlled format T20s lets some of the most creative batters & bowlers shock the world aswell as having some insane stats
I’m an Indian and lived in India for 8 years, but was born in England and live here now. So I have always been exposed to both cricket and football. I support India in cricket because that’s my heritage, and then support England for football. I can never choose which one I prefer because they are so different yet as exciting as each other
i would recommend watching "Harsha Bhogle: rise of cricket, rise of india" if you wanna see cricket's greatest storyteller tell you about IPL's growth and india's growth as a cricketing powerhouse.
This argument of People not Coming to watch the Test matches were that time only happing in U.K. sonit was of their own perspective, not other countries.
As an indian, I personally don't follow football, but I have cousins & relatives who do, who are very passionate about it. Some of them don't even bother with cricket :)
India has done a lot for the game but like England it needs to remember its success is reliant on the rest of the world. The goal needs to be having all the world playing the game that will mean listening to many different opinions from many countries. There is nothing to be gained playing yourself all the time. Test cricket is where the purity of the game can be found. That’s not to say the other forms don’t have their place if not their need.🇦🇺
TESat matches as the name are the Real thing The Real TEST of any player. You can take it as 5 Day is the maximum limit but these days matches over in 2.5 days aswell so 5 days means seems you watch 5 Games for 5 days.
Avram Glazer owns a cricket club in India. i think he wanted to call it Manchester United. UAE T20 league franchise team Forgot name i know it has vipers in it. I'm sure he has a connection with a Dubai cricket club.
you are right about football vis a vis cricket among indians. while football is quite popular , it is mostly the european clubs which are supported . The football clubs in india is not of a high level.
So in India cricket reigns supreme. It has dwarfed every other sport in the country until recently. But against all odds, 2 states in the country held on to their love for football. Kerala and West Bengal. In both these states people still loved football and during the football world cup the entire state gets decked up and gets divided between Brazil and Argentina. Seeing the popularity of IPL, similar business houses and celebrities whos started IPL started the ISL (Indian Super League) for club football. Club football was played in India long before ISL (since the 1880s), but not in the scale that ISL is. So the format has picked up (obviously not as much as IPL, otherwise you would've done a reaction video ;)) and there is a whole lot of traction, both among viewers and sponsors. Go Kerala Blasters!!! (That's my team)
The younger generation in India prefers T20 games that finish in less than 3 hours. Though test crickets are still watched, the number of people watching them is far less than the ones watching T20.
When money flows, America will take up cricket, make no mistake. Especially with the the population from the cricket playing nations. Also remember cricket is more global than baseball and now also an Olympic sport. It's just a matter of time that America adopts this game.
Football has absolutely huge support in India alot of people love it(obviously no comparison to cricket) but the board has been so corrupt for so long it will take decades to make it better. But American sports probably except NBA is nowhere tbh
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As an English man I love seeing the passion and joy on the faces of Indian cricket fans, I don't know why, but I love it that they have made cricket their own.
Same here
This year t20 world cup is in the US.
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@@suryasingh9121 I have a lot of respect for India as a nation.
We don't need respect,we need 45 trillion usd that your ancestors have looted.@@rjart4
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Even though cricket was popular in India before 1983 but not as much. India were the underdogs in the 1983 world cup and then went on to win the whole thing while completing a crazy comeback in the final is the reason why cricket is so popular in India.
Actually MLC(major league cricket) in USA has already successfully completed one season last year. It was a success and they are continuing next season also.
Remember the overseas stars from IPL also got fans who watch MLC and also South Asian population in US bring money from ticketing and broadcast.
Cricket will be featured at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, and the India fans are waaay excited.
The beauty of test cricket over 5 days is that you don't really need to concentrate on it, you can spend 5 days just having it on in the background on the TV and keep up with it. I don't think anyone is sitting there for 5 days straight staring at the TV.
Absolutely, it's how lots of Americans follow baseball if they're not a the game - or quite often even if they are at the game
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Would you believe me if I said that I didn't miss a single ball of the Australian Summer.
Get a job bro!!
Put the cricket on in the office 'bro'@@rockypandey4226
Luke, don’t be pessimistic about how cricket will takeoff in the US. Get involved, find a team, enjoy it and be one of the first to help the game grow. A lot of young people in the US find baseball boring, so like you said they might enjoy cricket more.
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NFL like cricket dominate broadcasting value simply because they have more breaks than other sports. More breaks = more opportunities to advertise so braodcasters are willing to pay more
Hi, Indian here. Been watching for a couple of months now. For me the three formats of cricket represent different viewing experiences. Test is a battle of endurence skill technique. Its a beautiful canvas on which both both teams paint. However there is less action per ball and more importance on tatics. Where as t20 games are action packed with each ball being way more important and exciting. Not saying that itss not as technical but t20 has an air of unpredictability as games can swing from side to side and we see less stroke making and more power shots. This makes t20 way easier for non traditional cricketing countries to come into the game of cricket.
A great Test match is like an epic sweeping narrative in a novel saga series and a T20 is like your favourite graphic novel. Both can be enjoyed but provide different entertainment experiences.
Apart from cricket, Indians are one of the biggest viewers of EPL and LaLiga, mainly MANUTD and REAL MADRID
The reason why the NBA was so low in that chart is because there's well over a thousand NBA games in a season so the value of each individual game is miniscule when compared to the IPL or NFL which don't have too many games and bring in billions in media and streaming rights deal making each individual game highly valuable.
The main thing in the USA that I see is they never want a game to end as a draw whereas here in the uk we don’t mind
Actually the problem is not lack of infrastructure in football in india, we have our own football league called ISL (Indian Super League). But the problem is lack of interest. In india Cricket is the most dominated sport with humungous fan following. Only a little amount of fans show their interest in football but still it looks big to others just because of the massive population of India. So, our little fan base is almost equal to some big fan bases to others.
18:30 cricket is my no.1 sport but I do follow football, F1 and other sports
The idea behind launching cricket in USA is basically that there is already a significant amount of population of USA are from Indian sub continent,west indies, england, Oceania region and they already like the sport so it is easy to attract audience for cricket in usa than in other countries where the game is not prominent.
Personally i follow both cricket and football. But cricket is my favourite sport to watch and play. Because growing up India i mostly played cricket. For me it's the best game
But football is the world sport. Winning in football feels truly becoming world champion. If India wins Fifa world cup, the excitement will be thousand times more than winning cricket world cup. So keep supporting Indian football. India started focusing in football recently.
@@n-zedorai6613Nope. Our federation is shit and we're actually becoming worse in football
@@Impactor07 Maybe recent matches result were worse, but overall improvement is happening more than before. AIFF committee is changed. They are now following "Vision 2047" strategy. ISL teams increasing, became a promotion-relegation league which makes the league more competitive.
@@n-zedorai6613 Yeah but losing 2-1 to Afghanistan is just HORRIBLE!
This is the 2nd time in our entire history that we've been defeated by Afghanistan and this wasn't even the main team, it was an A team!
Also, do you know about what is happening about the sexual abuse of Indian women footballers by officials?
This is just horrible
@@Impactor07 No I didn't know.
The claim that India has taken over the game may be true financially but you ask any cricket follower who are the dominant nation in cricket TODAY and they will all say Australia. In both men's and especially in women's cricket. Why? Because the matches that matter are not franchise matches between hired teams but between teams representing their countries and that will always be the case.
Not sure about “that will always be the case”. If more money is in franchise cricket, it means the majority of cricket followers enjoy franchise cricket more than international ones. Some of us are too fixated on old ideas of nation vs nation but we are a minority and honestly our opinions should not matter more than those who pay and fund Cricket, the general public.
If we are lucky and strike balance then we may become like football/soccer, where club cricket is supreme and once in a four year World Cup becomes number one. If we don’t accept the ground realities then we would become like Basketball where one hardly cares about international/ FIBA games and leagues(NBA, NBL, Euro league etc.) are everything in the sport.
@@jojo_ranjan football and basketball clubs are hundreds of years old and made by communities , ipl franchises are fake teams made in board rooms
@@jojo_ranjan There is a major difference here... Cricket, unlike any other major sport came to prominence as a game played between teams from different nations. Sure there was club cricket but that was always secondary to international cricket. Even as an Indian, which I am going to assume you are, what would you rather see... the Mumbai Indians winning the IPL or India winning an International trophy?
@@Raven-fh2yy Personally I love test cricket. And religiously watch it as much as possibly and just glance through scorecards for ODI and T20s. If Mumbai Indians were playing test cricket and Indian team plays t20, I would watch MI vs CSK(the best rivalry in IPL) play test match. But the world doesn’t move according to my wishes and my desires for cricket isn’t more important than any casual fan who just loves IPL or any other league. My point is more people watch and love franchise cricket than they do international cricket and their wishes should be respected if cricket wants to grow.
How did it become so big in India..? The British Empire, British soldiers and administrators took cricket with them, the Indians took it up and very much made it their own as we see
I’m very surprised this video didn’t seem to mention the establishment of World Series Cricket in 1977 as a crucial step in the evolution towards T20 and the IPL. It was literally a professional revolution in shorter form cricket with the introduction of many current features such as night cricket, coloured clothing and high quality TV coverage. Glaring miss imo.
The modernising of cricket with the expansion televising and monetising of cricket at a national level really began in late 1970's with an Australian media mogal named Kerry Packer, who introduced the idea of World Series Cricket. This introduced a number of innovations, such as paying crickers wages & appearance money (comparable to other professional athetes) the rise of the 1 day cricket format (50 over cricket) coloured uniforms, plsying cricket under lights and the use of a white ball (as it easier to see under lighhts). This initially split Australian cricket, but the n within a relatively short time a deal was brokered so that Australian Cricket & World Series Cricket essentially merged. There is documentary series callled 'Cricket in the 70's' by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which goes in to this in great detail.
Here from India, love your content. I watch football mostly (arsenal fan) but cricket is huge in India. Football is catching up tho, slowly
As a indian i both watch cricket & football But cricket is still my fav sport because i've grown up watching it. All the memories of coming back from school, discussing the previous ipl game with my friends & watching your fav player to play from all over the world in India was so fascinating! . & that 2011 world cup win made me fall in love with this beautifull sport. Its truly said "cricket is a religion in India"
Love from India ❤
From Kolkata. We are blessed with both the sports. ♥️
Football is very popular in some parts of India . In kerala football is the most popular sport. We even have a football league called The ISL ( Indian Super League).
Hi im from nepal and here both cricket and football are very popular and people follow both sports. I love both sports tbh but nothing can compete against football. Nepal is also playing in this year t20 world cup and might have a big impact. Keep an eye on them and love your content man.
Dont know if someone has already said this but there are Indian fans for football especially in the southern part of India. There is ISL (Indian Super League) for football like IPL for cricket. The South is crazy about football I would say as someone for the southern part of India.
Note: Hindi speakers are not the only Indians!
And the north-east! I would guess football is more popular there than cricket.
Habibi come to Kolkata sometimes during the kolkata derby
Not just south,football is popular in Goa,Maharashtra, West Bengal ,North East and all metro cities 😮
Well all I wanted to say was we have fans for football. 😅
@@isoulsearchforself if you wanted to draw a attention towards football fans from South india in particular n whole india in general to draw home your point for football crazy fans, I have no issue with that but to play typical South Indian politicians divisive politics in comment section by creating wedge between North South based on hindi language is not fair way to express opinion on any loving sports.. Because if South Indian politicians play with the linguistic insecurity sensitivities of the peoples then it can be understood but to make a point on your favorite sports by bringing in Divisive political semantics is highly immoral unethical & irrational.. And who saying that only hindi speaking people are cricket crazy fans & only hindi speaking peoples play cricket & South Indian has nothing to do with cricket & it's just North Indian dominant loving sport in India who's saying that..?
The first ever professional cricket match was played between USA and Canada in the 1800s.
MLC is already up and running last season was success and second season is going to happen this year
Thanks alot for listening to my request (also other's as well) ❤
Brother now BCCI(india) is giving so much allowance for Test matches. Because some players not will perform on odi and Test.
You should look into the MLC, it was a smash hit success so far
I am into football more than cricket but cricket is just i cant even explain
Most televised sport worldwide is domestic leagues played between franchised teams consisting of hired talent. NFL, MLB, NBA, EPL etc. These are not national sides. What they have is historic rivalries and passionate fan bases which we are now seeing develop in the IPL, BBL and other franchises. A fan base that will pay for televised matches and can be marketed to which is what drives the TV rights money. For example according to Wikipedia there are over 4 million US citizens of Indian origin which is probably enough of a potential fan base to support some form of T20 cricket without considering US citizens with roots in other traditional cricketing countries.
Test cricket is like webseries when u watch the first episode u have to watch other episodes. When days play end u ponder whole night what's gonna happen the next day.
I follow many sports just like badminton, football,lawn tennis,table tennis, olympic sports,etc
But cricket is all-time favourite, we can forget everything if have time to play some cricket matches
80% countries didn't see the amount excitement in cricket
After 2028 Olympic everything will be changed
I think India will continue to struggle to win a T20 World Cup as long as they prohibit their players from playing T20 in different countries franchises. A few international games is not enough experience of the different conditions
Hello,
I am from West Bengal, India. Football in Bengal is extremely popular along with Cricket if not more.
Goa, West Bengal and Kerala where football's popularity is immense.
Your video is gonna be in trending for some time..
Cricket and kabaddi... Fan of both...
Indian here... Grew up watching cricket before being introduced to football, now a due hard Barcelona & messi fan; cricket is still no. 2 tho
Test is not fun but it's epic in terms of real cricket watchers as you see a unit will go all out playing for hours in pressure mentally and physically. Love test cricket 🏏
There are several misleading things in this video about test cricket, which has led to you saying incorrect things about test cricket. The truth is that test cricket continues to grow in popularity. The problem is that it is only financially sustainable in England, India and Australia. In our countries we can and do get time off work to attend all 5 days of a match, we can also take holidays and travel overseas to watch our team. However, the majority of people attend only one or two days or simply watch it on TV. The inability of people to comprehend 5 days for a game is also ridiculous. Golf is extremely popular and takes 4 days. Cycling is extremely popular and takes a week or more.
12:00 nobody will judge you for watching T20 over test cricket but you'll get hate if you say T20 is better than test because it is objectively untrue. Might be more entertaining but not better
See when you say it is objectively untrue, you are lying. That was a subjective opinion because I know many ( more than I actually appreciate) who consider T20 to be BETTER(not just entertaining) than Tests. Neither of you is wrong or right. Just subjective opinions. I LOVE test cricket and hardly care for T20s as much but I wouldn’t consider my opinion to be the truth / more important than others.
Hi, people rarely went to all 5 days of a test match. You bought tickets by the day and went when you could. The games always went over a weekend so that's two days and then people would go after work on weekdays for the evening sessions (it is a summer sport so light until late) - play each day continues until the umpires decide the light is not good enough to continue.
Wow, so people would just stop in and watch part of a match and then pick back up with normal life while the match continued? Such an interesting game
@@lukessportsacademy yeah and you would watch the rest of the match from home. Also depending on how the match plays out and when it may end you'll see day 4 or day 5 sold out because a lot of fans expect the match to end on that day.
Think of a test match like a baseball world series. That's something I heard a American say.
@@lukessportsacademy what I've mentioned on other videos (but appreciate you're not going to see all comments) is think of it like this - a day at a cricket test match is not dissimilar to watching a baseball double header, it's just part of the same game - and a test match overall is not dissimilar to a baseball series, again it just happens to be one game. People may just go for 1 or 2 days and watch the rest at home or listen to the radio. Usually we watch or listen to it like many Americans watch or listen to baseball at home: you have it on in the background while you're doing something else but you might stop and properly watch a few at bats or an inning every so often - same with cricket, you might watch an over or two for example.
Indians love football or soccer, too. I believe, for average Indian physique crickets suits them more since it's more skill oriented game. Soccer also requires a stronger physique and immense stamina
there is already a 7.5 million south Asian population in the USA and Canada which can be a good base to start at least a small thing.
In India, I will say after cricket, it's 🏑 hockey. Football is watched in 3 states of India. Badminton is also getting a lot of attention.
USA also have cricket league (mlc) and USA hosting 2024 t20world
Indian football fan base is immense despite of different time zone people stay awake midnight to watch EPL, LaLiga, Bundesliga n yes ipl is famous u can find fan of cricket n Manchester united
Cricket, The Original version of Baseball is back in United States of America, 3 Season of Monior League Cricket & 1at season of #MLC Major League cricket League is already happened.
At 20 minutes the graph is on a per-game basis. Each NBA team plays 82 games a season vs 17 for NFL, that's why it's so much lower.
Hey Buddy watched your video for the first time it was promising and knowing the fact you understand this sport so well i m was surprised ... IPL is huge that's the fact ... keep it up and all the best i m your subscriber now
Test matches are only played by the absolute best players in the world. The quality of the cricket is better than what you see at the T20 level. In T20 though you can tell who’s going to win most of the time 30 minutes before the game finishes. Test matches are so drawn out that a team isn’t really out of it and the game can hang in the balance even after 3 or 4 days.
I guess you weren't paying attention when South Africa toured NZ this year.
Also this graph is per game the NFL has 285 games a season. The NBA has 2565 games a season, the BPL has 760.
Watch cricket world cup in June 2024 in America
It’s easy fir players too because each team only plays 14 games per season or year. That’s so much money
I enjoy different formats of cricket from all over the world. But I do think that the game has to be careful not to over do it.
ICC T20 WORLD CUP is being held in USA and WEST INDIES, JUNE and JULY.
You buy a ticket and go checkout specially INDIA vs PAKISTAN.
You will experience an atmosphere which you might be able to in any other sport event in the world
The NFL isn't dominating per se, the graph shows the cost per game not how many people are watching - there's so few NFL games compared to NBA that each game is more valuable, and with all the stops in play it's more valuable to advertisers, so the cost of a single game is higher. Of course the MLB similarly has a large number of games (too many in my opinion) but there are more stops in play than basketball so again more natural spaces to shove adverts without interrupting play. There will be other factors but I think these are key
about 700 million viewers of Cricket in india
of witch 300 million also watch football and from these 300 million almost all of them are originally EPL, world cup or other league watchers
in recent times Indian football starting to pull a constant viewership in its league the ISL and in the national team
national team viewership is very unstable depending on the form, it can drop to a few thousand people
Those are very specific numbers - per game stats. The NBA regular season has 100s of games as each team plays 82 or whatever # they play. Same with MLB. And the playoffs also involve best of 7-game rounds. So the value of each individual game is low. The NFL plays very few games, 17 per team, so the value of each game is much higher.
As a long standing viewer of Cricket and an Indian. Here is what i can say:
1) Test cricket is like Opera (modern fast pace people don’t understand its art)
2) ODI is like a live show ( its fun but boring at times )
3) T20 is modern movie theatre, there is twist and drama at every corner.
Test is a necessary game i feel as it tests your patience and refines your basic cricketing skills. Thats the reason T20 focused players fail badly in Test matches.
Whereas same is true vice versa, Test players have hard time adjusting to fast paced game.
But having both gives you various skills that will be a benefit regardless.
Test matches gives you defensive and passive aggression skills, skills like direct the ball rather then attempting power hit (try it and the ball will damage your wrist due to its hardness)
T20 needs aggressive and power packed skills. Extremely forced shorts, run in every attempt possible. Start from get go and don’t wait to settle.
Am a football fan too, my all time favourites is Chelsea.
India has a lrage football following and sport is growing but we need a big breakthrough and the Indian football board AIFF needs to get its act together.
There is potential and India will come up but, it needs some strong actions on ground to be taken.
I appreciate your comment everything is in detail 🫡
@@Utsavkhatri Glad to share a perspective.
You don't watch ISL?
ISL is only on the rise i guess 😢😢
@@isoulsearchforself ISL is not enough. The players or team are fixed. Not enough competition. There should be a elimination system where, underperforming players or teams are demoted to local league and top performers from local league are promoted to top league. Something like this. Till then ISL is shit.
Almost all strikers are non Indians. So how do we nurture talent? All coaches are foreigners, so when will we build local coaches?
I can't wait to see what happens in New York on the match day between India Vs Pakistan
This is purely a guess but i think the nfl is so lucrative because its so much about the entertainment as opposed to the sport itself. Look at how the crowd reacted when the champions league tried to do essentially a concert before the final.
Its become a thing to watch the superbowl in the same way that people stay up to watch wrestlemania or some heavyweight boxing match and we dont even know the rules.
Then theres the acceptance of constant advertising.
I see where you come from.That said, it'll take time for cricket to spread through america. A possible marketing strat is to try having college baseball players try cricket and see how they feel (despite the differences in the sports, it should be relatively easy to switch between the two, as opposed to switching between basketball and American football, at least in my opinion), but I feel that'd be too much.
18:16I not jocking once India gets to play Football World CUP nd be Consistent...will take over we can make more money then any federation.
I know that but the only problem is our team sucks....Check the FIFA World cup viwership country wise India 2nd or 3rd.
The video really skewed the history of change of formats and major moments in the game of cricket to show as if IPL was the only big thing happened. It completely skipped over the major events like the formation of one day cricket, 83 world cup it's transition from 60 to 50 overs, influence of reverse swing in limited overs, Kerry Packer's circus, the massively entertaining 50 over international matches that created a viewing audience throughout 90s and 2000s, India winning t20 world Cup, IPL wasn't even the only T20 league, and Big Bash Australia started soon and was genuinely good, because Australia had better pitches, but now those pitches are tired and slow and batter friendly just like India's. India only picked up IPL because India won t20 world cup and wanted to ride on the popularity that format got, had India not won the t20 world cup, things would've been very very different.
5 days test no one watches every ball bcos of life but ppl like cricket will definitely follow the score but this doesnt make buisness. Few years back WTC was introduced that save the test after Ashes and indian test games
Yes we have a massive fan following in Football (Soccer) also in India. We have a league thats is called Indian Super League.
Actually Asia's oldest and biggest durby played in India between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, those teams are approx 150 years old.
But honestly speaking our National team sucks in soccer.
Definitely recommend watching an IPL game with a cricket fan - are there game highlights packages that you can react do and have on the screen?
There is literally no day in India that u go out and don't find anyone playing cricket. Everyone plays cricket very passionately. But I have never seen anyone playing football in my whole life in India.
Bro what??
@@JONAS-gq8lo I'm just telling what I saw
NFL is not the highest viewership , numbers reflect sponsor paying per game. NBA per game sponsorship is lowest. It will take 100 yrs for NFL to catch up with IPL viewership
The IPL is an incredible tournament, absolutely love it!
I am one of those rare Indians whose primary sport was football while growing up(Man Utd fan since 2005). However cricket has always been a part of my life. I know the basic rules and stuff, but I don't know who are the best players currently or which player is better and why, because I never followed cricket as religiously as most of my countrymen do. The last time I watched a cricket match in full was back in 2014/15 because my grandfather was a huge Indian team fan(obviously) and would not let me change the channels on TV. But neither of my parents are cricket fans so they let me play (and watch) football before I touched a cricket bat.
Coming to the football vs cricket thing in India, its obvious cricket is the more popular one amongst the two. However football fans are still in huge numbers and we make majority of the global audience numbers of EPL and La Liga. Indian football has always been corrupt, neglected by the government and left to its own devices since the 70s. Therefore there are very few fans of Indian national team or Indian clubs compared to the European clubs. An attempt to change this situation happened in 2014 with the launch of Indian Super League(ISL) to try and replicate the success and effects of IPL, but a decade later, results have been mediocre so far. I will recommend HITC Sevens video to learn more about the Indian football and its current dire state.
Great reaction btw!
The IPL is going on right now. You should check it out
India not letting their players play other leagues is exactly how England used to function. The bulied have become the bullies.
You pick a thing or two from everybody.
That is false.
I personally prefer Tests & I see it as the pinnacle of Cricket, though I understand as a someone studying to become a sport's statistician the appeal & simpler yet more complex & usually closer game for T20 games.
Like as a statistician I love Tests for their long history & just those random stats & silly moments that just couldn't happen if the game didn't go for 5 days (See stuff like specialist batters given the ball to bowl on day 5 of a test to give the bowlers a bit of rest)
ODIS to me feel like a nothing format but it's a good format for limited orders players to show off their skills in a more controlled format
T20s lets some of the most creative batters & bowlers shock the world aswell as having some insane stats
Reaction video on t20 wc anthem reaction❤
19:50 it's not the viewership its how much the broadcaster pays to board(like for IPL its BCCI) for 1 match
I’m an Indian and lived in India for 8 years, but was born in England and live here now. So I have always been exposed to both cricket and football. I support India in cricket because that’s my heritage, and then support England for football. I can never choose which one I prefer because they are so different yet as exciting as each other
i would recommend watching "Harsha Bhogle: rise of cricket, rise of india" if you wanna see cricket's greatest storyteller tell you about IPL's growth and india's growth as a cricketing powerhouse.
Texas Super Kings has huge fan base in MLC
This argument of People not Coming to watch the Test matches were that time only happing in U.K. sonit was of their own perspective, not other countries.
As an indian, I personally don't follow football, but I have cousins & relatives who do, who are very passionate about it.
Some of them don't even bother with cricket :)
India has done a lot for the game but like England it needs to remember its success is reliant on the rest of the world. The goal needs to be having all the world playing the game that will mean listening to many different opinions from many countries. There is nothing to be gained playing yourself all the time. Test cricket is where the purity of the game can be found. That’s not to say the other forms don’t have their place if not their need.🇦🇺
as an Indian I love Cricket and Football but tbh
Indians breathe cricket😅❤️🇮🇳
I'm an Indian and football is my first sport. GGMU
TESat matches as the name are the Real thing The Real TEST of any player. You can take it as 5 Day is the maximum limit but these days matches over in 2.5 days aswell so 5 days means seems you watch 5 Games for 5 days.
Avram Glazer owns a cricket club in India. i think he wanted to call it Manchester United. UAE T20 league franchise team Forgot name i know it has vipers in it. I'm sure he has a connection with a Dubai cricket club.
you are right about football vis a vis cricket among indians. while football is quite popular , it is mostly the european clubs which are supported . The football clubs in india is not of a high level.
Cricket is no longer belongs to UK. We poor Indians brought it from UK as we brought many companies from them. 😀 Poor Englishmen. karma hits back.
So in India cricket reigns supreme. It has dwarfed every other sport in the country until recently. But against all odds, 2 states in the country held on to their love for football. Kerala and West Bengal. In both these states people still loved football and during the football world cup the entire state gets decked up and gets divided between Brazil and Argentina. Seeing the popularity of IPL, similar business houses and celebrities whos started IPL started the ISL (Indian Super League) for club football. Club football was played in India long before ISL (since the 1880s), but not in the scale that ISL is. So the format has picked up (obviously not as much as IPL, otherwise you would've done a reaction video ;)) and there is a whole lot of traction, both among viewers and sponsors. Go Kerala Blasters!!! (That's my team)
The younger generation in India prefers T20 games that finish in less than 3 hours.
Though test crickets are still watched, the number of people watching them is far less than the ones watching T20.
The American league seems to be targeting the South Asian diaspora. Cricket is probably too complicated for most Americans.
When money flows, America will take up cricket, make no mistake. Especially with the the population from the cricket playing nations. Also remember cricket is more global than baseball and now also an Olympic sport. It's just a matter of time that America adopts this game.
Bro react ipl highlight, i think all fan's are Loved
NBA has small stadium capacity and smaller tv viewership
Football has absolutely huge support in India alot of people love it(obviously no comparison to cricket) but the board has been so corrupt for so long it will take decades to make it better. But American sports probably except NBA is nowhere tbh