High Time that cricket be made be the national sport

With this current fiasco on Indian Hockey, the non payment of paltry 25 grand to the hockey staff for their international travel and washing dirty linens in public, i strongly feel that there is a long standing need that we need to replace our national sport to cricket for the benefit of all other sports - if not hockey.

If this what happens to a national sport, then its high time that we replace hockey with cricket. By doing that, we will not feel pity about hockey every year and play a blame game without doing anything. We will not get inspired which will fizzle out in short term on a release of a hockey related movie. We will also not feel bad when we read a small article about Indian hockey team beating the world champions in a neglect corner of a newspaper. This is not what a good team deserves - they require encouragement and not pity. I hope by removing the national sport tag, we will be forced to encourage them.

The above paragraph stated why we do not need hockey as our national game. These are the same reason that we want cricket to face the same ordeal which the great hockey has been facing over the last couple of decades. Small news about cricket are made headlines, players made idols, mediocre performances are glorified (with due respect to dew :)), commerce ruling over performance( ICC softening on Kotla Fiasco) etc. Indian cricket is on decline, world no. 1 is a misnomer and if performance of the team is any indicator then we are in to see a "mortgage crisis" type of a disaster in India cricket ( the reason being same - the valuation exceeds the underlying asset).

Then we need to pity on them. And hence to make the entire nation again to "feel pity and do nothing" about it , we need to make it a national sport.