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The Story Of Cricket
Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.
Yes, cricket owes its present popularity to television. Television expanded the audience for the game by bringing cricket into small towns and villages. It also broadened cricket’s social base. Children, who had never previously had the chance to watch international cricket because they lived outside the big cities, could watch and learn by imitating their heroes. Matches in Sydney could be watched live in Surat. Cricket, as a result, became available to everyone and thus, gained a lot of popularity.
Some More Questions From The Story of Cricket Chapter
In “the triumph of the one-day game”, ‘triumph’ means the one-day games
(i) Superiority to Test cricket.
(ii) Inferiority to Test cricket.
(iii) Achievement and success over Test cricket.
(iv) Popularity among viewers.
“…the men for whom the world is a stage”.
(i) It refers to the famous cricket fields in the world.
(ii) It means that there are many cricket playing countries in the world.
(iii) It implies that cricketers are like actors and every cricket ground is like a stage on which the drama of cricket is enacted the world over.
Name some stick-and-ball games that you have witnessed or heard of.
The Parsis were the first Indian community to take to cricket. Why?
The rivalry between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana had a happy ending for the former. What does ‘a happy ending’ refer to?
Do you think cricket owes its present popularity to television? Justify your answer.
Why has cricket a large viewership in India, not in China or Russia?
What do you understand by the game’s (cricket) ‘equipment’?
How is Test cricket a unique game in many ways?
How is cricket different from other team games?
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