Cricket is a religion in India speech on Annual Day
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Cricket is a religion in India
Good morning everyone present here. I am going to expatiate on ‘Cricket is a religion in India’. Every nation has its own favorite sport. Football is adored in many countries such as France, Belgium, England, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, etc.; baseball and basketball are popular in the USA; gymnastics in Russia; hockey in Netherlands. Similarly, cricket is religion in India.
Cricket is the cult of all Indians. India is known for this game throughout the world. All age group Indians adore this game. One can find children, youngsters, and adults playing this game almost everywhere. In streets, on house roofs, empty plots, grounds, you will find children playing with improvised bat, wickets, and tennis ball.
Though there are State Owned grounds also where professional cricket coaching is imparted; but the most wonderful cricket is played by the amateur players who have neither proper ground, nor proper pitch, nor proper gear. They are good at converting any empty ground into a playfield where they play matches by making teams.
Indian cricket team is worshipped like a deity in India. Famous cricketers such as Sachin Tendulkar, M.S.Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, etc. are revered as gods. When Indian cricket team plays a match against any other team, the nation comes to a standstill. People leave their work and get glued to TV. If the match happens to be against Pakistan, the entire nation forgets everything except watching the match on TV. The day Indian cricket team wins against the arch-rivals, there is Diwali celebrations throughout the nation. People let off crackers at night to celebrate the victory.
IPL, Indian Premier League is very popular throughout the world. Various renowned people from all parts of the world play in the league. The BCCI has really developed a grand cricketing infrastructure in the country as a result the standard of Indian cricket has become world class.
Cricket is a religion in India and here more than 1.2 billion people are crazy about cricket.
As we know that Hinduism is the largest religion in India, but if you consider the religion as equality then you must find cricket as religion.
Even Hockey, the national game of India is also overshadowed by cricket and you can find many people in India who consider the national cricket players as their god.