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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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"
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.
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.
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.
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).
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..?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
experiencing test cricket is totally different than watching the entire thing, whenever there is test match it becomes the background noise to your life. whenever there is a test cricket match i would regularly check scores, watch highlights at the end of the day and sometimes leave it running in background
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
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.
Football in India more like Regional thing ..its mostly In Bengal, North East, Kerala, Goa & a bit of Punjab If u don't know football is not even 2nd most popular game in India not even 3rd or 4th .. 1st - Cricket 2nd- Hockey (Field Hockey) 3rd - Kabaddi 4th - Wrestling and then comes football & Badminton
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
The NFL is high because of the revenue they generated because of the half time show. Cricket in India will always be the biggest in India, but Football ( its not soccer, its football) and basketball have been growing significantly.
the funny thing about the 5 day thing is that normally it's in a series of 5 matches. so when, for example, England play India in a test cricket, that single match up will last 25 days! lol
19:34 It's probably, the investors and sponsers trying to keep the NFL alive. Plus Indian sponsers are investing millions but the value of Indian rupee is very less compared to dollar. So to overcome the big sponsers they would need more demand and more viewership.
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
actually, we won 😅 and about experience in different conditions, India has not won but reached final in many ICC tournament ICC test world cup final 2021 ICC test world cup final 2023 champion trophy final 2017 ICC world cup semifinal 2015 ICC world cup semifinal 2019 ICC world cup final 2023
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.
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)
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
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
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 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 :)
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.
Around 19:40 I’m pretty sure the viewership is on par with NFL if Indians watch it with their own account The IPL viewership is people gathering together to watch it in one screen and also multiple websites pirates the live stream so that more people watch it without paying. That doesn’t come into the country of viewership So that’s why IPL is second place here
It is true India today doesn't have infrastructure for football because it is a expensive game and only some top 10% people of india could afford it but harsh truth is that our government don't show their interest in investing money in football because they are happy with money coming from cricket.By the way india has one of the biggest fan base of football in the world and footballers like C.ronaldo and L.messi are loved in india❤❤
Football needs infrastructure I know anyone could buy a football and play with it but our people are not interested in it and yes iam so called kid of my generation 😅
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
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.
test cricket is best enjoyed on the radio, I'd equate it to listening to podcasts. I will always remember my grandfather pottering around the house and garden with the test cricket on the radio.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
One Indian political analyst Ashish Nandi once said that cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the British! This game has somehow caught the imagination of an average Indian. BTW, T20, the most popular format of the game today, takes only 3 hours or less. It is played all over the cricketing world through franchises. In India, it is called IPL and it is this IPL that has made a huge difference in terms of money. As of 2023, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has a brand value of $10.7 billion, which is a 28% increase from 2022. The IPL's total brand value has increased by 433% since it launched in 2008. (source: internet)
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
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.
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
Most people will watch test match by having it in the background on a second monitor at work. The crows would fill in on weekends or if they expect their team to win on that day. Also, it is not uncommon to give tickets to schools to fill the seats during weekdays. One-day international was created in 1970s to make it attractive to the audience of that time. As the world became faster over the years resulted in T-20, an even shorter format. But it allowed it to be a franchise vs the traditional international format.
18:31 it will be a big answer but I highly recommend u to research about history of Indian football. [surprise] and yes we follow football and cricket both...
Luke, they are not looking at the American audience for cricket to spread in the US. There are more than 4 million Indian origin people in the US. And if you take the other south east Asian diasporas like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, etc. the numbers will be even higher. So these guys will fill out many a stadiums there. And then there are these travelling fans. They will be there in droves. If the Americans take a liking to the sport, then it'll be the cherry on top to spread the game in the US.
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
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.
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Cricket will be featured at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, and the India fans are waaay excited.
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.
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.
It was destroyed by Bengalis dominating football body in India.
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
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 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.
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.
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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
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
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.
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.
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"
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
18:30 cricket is my no.1 sport but I do follow football, F1 and other sports
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.
ICC T20 2024 final Ind vs SA was a full adrenaline rush which is lacking in football. ❤😊
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.
The first ever professional cricket match was played between USA and Canada in the 1800s.
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Apart from cricket, Indians are one of the biggest viewers of EPL and LaLiga, mainly MANUTD and REAL MADRID
In India Cricket is not just a sports it's a Religion.
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.
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).
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..?
Brother now BCCI(india) is giving so much allowance for Test matches. Because some players not will perform on odi and Test.
I am into football more than cricket but cricket is just i cant even explain
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.
Here from India, love your content. I watch football mostly (arsenal fan) but cricket is huge in India. Football is catching up tho, slowly
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.
19:50 it's not the viewership its how much the broadcaster pays to board(like for IPL its BCCI) for 1 match
Also this graph is per game the NFL has 285 games a season. The NBA has 2565 games a season, the BPL has 760.
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
You should look into the MLC, it was a smash hit success so far
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
It’s easy fir players too because each team only plays 14 games per season or year. That’s so much money
MLC is already up and running last season was success and second season is going to happen this year
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.
USA also have cricket league (mlc) and USA hosting 2024 t20world
experiencing test cricket is totally different than watching the entire thing, whenever there is test match it becomes the background noise to your life. whenever there is a test cricket match i would regularly check scores, watch highlights at the end of the day and sometimes leave it running in background
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.
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
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.
Football in India more like Regional thing ..its mostly In Bengal, North East, Kerala, Goa & a bit of Punjab
If u don't know football is not even 2nd most popular game in India not even 3rd or 4th ..
1st - Cricket
2nd- Hockey (Field Hockey)
3rd - Kabaddi
4th - Wrestling
and then comes football & Badminton
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.
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.
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.
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
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
In simple terms as an Indian fan, “India is my country, Cricket is my religion and Sachin is my God.”
Indian here... Grew up watching cricket before being introduced to football, now a due hard Barcelona & messi fan; cricket is still no. 2 tho
The NFL is high because of the revenue they generated because of the half time show. Cricket in India will always be the biggest in India, but Football ( its not soccer, its football) and basketball have been growing significantly.
the funny thing about the 5 day thing is that normally it's in a series of 5 matches. so when, for example, England play India in a test cricket, that single match up will last 25 days! lol
19:34 It's probably, the investors and sponsers trying to keep the NFL alive. Plus Indian sponsers are investing millions but the value of Indian rupee is very less compared to dollar. So to overcome the big sponsers they would need more demand and more viewership.
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
actually, we won 😅
and about experience in different conditions, India has not won but reached final in many ICC tournament
ICC test world cup final 2021
ICC test world cup final 2023
champion trophy final 2017
ICC world cup semifinal 2015
ICC world cup semifinal 2019
ICC world cup final 2023
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.
Watch cricket world cup in June 2024 in America
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)
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 American league seems to be targeting the South Asian diaspora. Cricket is probably too complicated for most Americans.
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
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 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 :)
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.
Around 19:40
I’m pretty sure the viewership is on par with NFL if Indians watch it with their own account
The IPL viewership is people gathering together to watch it in one screen and also multiple websites pirates the live stream so that more people watch it without paying. That doesn’t come into the country of viewership
So that’s why IPL is second place here
Thanks alot for listening to my request (also other's as well) ❤
British gave cricket to the world India gave chess to the world 😁
It is true India today doesn't have infrastructure for football because it is a expensive game and only some top 10% people of india could afford it but harsh truth is that our government don't show their interest in investing money in football because they are happy with money coming from cricket.By the way india has one of the biggest fan base of football in the world and footballers like C.ronaldo and L.messi are loved in india❤❤
how football is expensive game, you must be some kid.
Football needs infrastructure I know anyone could buy a football and play with it but our people are not interested in it and yes iam so called kid of my generation 😅
Cricket is best game of this world
Zip it boy
Now it is also launched in Olympics so i don't think so
Let's see
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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
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.
test cricket is best enjoyed on the radio, I'd equate it to listening to podcasts. I will always remember my grandfather pottering around the house and garden with the test cricket on the radio.
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
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.
Love from India ❤
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
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.
Base ball is 1 / Cricket. Total Inverse
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
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
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.
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.
From Kolkata. We are blessed with both the sports. ♥️
One Indian political analyst Ashish Nandi once said that cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the British!
This game has somehow caught the imagination of an average Indian.
BTW, T20, the most popular format of the game today, takes only 3 hours or less. It is played all over the cricketing world through franchises. In India, it is called IPL and it is this IPL that has made a huge difference in terms of money.
As of 2023, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has a brand value of $10.7 billion, which is a 28% increase from 2022. The IPL's total brand value has increased by 433% since it launched in 2008. (source: internet)
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
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 IPL is an incredible tournament, absolutely love it!
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
Most people will watch test match by having it in the background on a second monitor at work. The crows would fill in on weekends or if they expect their team to win on that day. Also, it is not uncommon to give tickets to schools to fill the seats during weekdays. One-day international was created in 1970s to make it attractive to the audience of that time. As the world became faster over the years resulted in T-20, an even shorter format. But it allowed it to be a franchise vs the traditional international format.
Your video is gonna be in trending for some time..
18:31 it will be a big answer
but I highly recommend u to research about history of Indian football. [surprise]
and yes we follow football and cricket both...
1st of all Cricket is an International Sport not like Domestic games NFL , or Baseball. Thus it's different.
Luke, they are not looking at the American audience for cricket to spread in the US. There are more than 4 million Indian origin people in the US. And if you take the other south east Asian diasporas like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, etc. the numbers will be even higher. So these guys will fill out many a stadiums there. And then there are these travelling fans. They will be there in droves. If the Americans take a liking to the sport, then it'll be the cherry on top to spread the game in the US.