ProteinPancakes

Cricket World Cup not hyped enough this year?

I genuinely don’t feel like we are hosting a cricket World Cup in our country this year. In 2011, the hype and craze around us hosting was way higher. Stadiums were better filled them for other games apart from Indian games, while I saw at least 5-10% empty seats even for the India v Aus game even though everything was apparently sold out in minutes on BMS?

Is it a PR/marketing problem or is the hype from the sport just not great anymore?

13mo ago

JinSakaii

Walmart13mo

Odis seem way too long in a climate of low/reducing attention spans among people

Sapthinker

Stealth13mo

This is is the exact reason, too many devices availaible

Thomas_Shelby

Swiggy13mo

It’s mostly because of the corrupt BCCI. The greed for money and power have made them blind. Each and every damn thing is a business opportunity for them. Wherever nepotism is involved, you cannot expect much.

BCCI thinks no matter what they do, blind fans will always be there to support cricket, and they can churn out as much money as they want. Maybe few years down the lane, we might see a few scams by the BCCI getting unearthed by other ruling government.

Klutz

Stealth13mo

Hope is a good thing. Probably the best of things.

Unless BCCI comes under the gambit of govt, there's no chance of that happening. There was an attempt to get them under RTI, but didn't go through. Now that the govt (basically Amit Shah) has practically infiltrated BCCI to mint money, there's no need for them to be accountable.
As you may already understand, the Indian team is for all practical intents and purposes a private team and not one with national/govt oversight.

To the larger point, I feel if fans start feeling cheated/alienated by not being given that respect (e.g., ticket availability of CWC matches), they may just start not following the sport anymore

Klutz

Stealth13mo

This could be a tipping point for the game. Only the ipl format may survive with no takers for bilateral games

PlainUsher85

Deutsche Bank13mo

The richer the india becomes the sooner the cricket dies.

Cricket is dying.

AdamSmithh

EY13mo

True the attention for other games is catching up with better faculties and awareness

Indusplateau

Stealth13mo

Asian games is way better. I am wondering why wasn't I introduce to other sports than cricket

ProteinPancakes

Dream 1113mo

Because cricket was stuffed down our throats but other sports weren’t commercial enough when we were kids because we weren’t good at them then + they didn’t have the ₹ pull that Sachin did

Owl

Student13mo

The 50 over and test format are dying due lack of attention span and time due to the busy lifestyle on the other hand T20 would grow as it lasts around 3 hrs. One of the major reasons football is world famous & favourite is because of the 90 mins play full of emotions and actions

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