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What Is Happening In International Cricket?
The new Twenty20 cricket league is getting the best players in the world together for a multi-million dollar tournament in India. The games of high intensity cricket are played over a period of six weeks all across India. These games are going to all leading cricket nations - world cricket has not seen this amount of exposure to the game in cricket history.
Players are making huge amounts of money from the new Twenty20 League being played in India. The game has reached new greatness for the good of world cricket. International cricket has come a long way over the last five years. Especially the last two years, with the start of Twenty20 cricket.
International Cricket
Our international cricket game will now go from strength to strength with the huge money backing by some very wealthy businessmen around the world. One game that is being played within the next month is being played between an England side and a West Indies team, the winner will walk away with 20 million dollars. Each player will pocket 1 million dollars for 3 hours of fun!!
Test cricket will never lose its popularity among the purists of this fantastic game. What Twenty20 cricket has done is bring back the family atmosphere that was starting to fall away. It is nearly a party feeling in the Twenty20 first class cricket games of each country.
Indian Cricket Team
If they did go out on the street, fans would crowd them and their safety would be risked. Ten years ago one fanatical fan committed suicide when Sachin Tendulkar was injured badly and it was publicized he would not play again.
Millions of Indian cricket fans treat their cricket stars like they are idols. This doesn’t happen in any other country in world cricket. Most of the Indian cricket team have personal body guards and only venture out at night in their cars so people won’t recognize them.
The safest way for them to be in public is to travel to other countries for their holidays.
Cricket Australia
Over the last ten years the Australian cricket players have laid the benchmark for all international cricket playing nations. They hold the current world record for 15 successive test wins.
All teams around the world hold the Australian cricket team as the team to beat. This places a lot of pressure on them as their fans expect so much from their team.
If they don’t perform to the expectations of the nation there is always a player with great talent to step in and take their place. There is no other country in world cricket that has the depth of the Australian cricket team.
West Indies Cricket Team
West Indies cricket was radically strong during the 1980’s. They were well known for their quick bowlers.
Most national cricket teams have one or two really quick bowlers in their side. The West Indies team had four capable of bowling at over 90mph and would frighten the daylights out of their opposition.
This has not carried on during the 90’s and now in the 21st century. It is a sad situation for cricket around the world to see the mighty Caribbean side struggling to contest with other teams in world cricket.
Cricket Game
Learning how to play cricket can be difficult in all countries around the world. In the West Indies and India especially, if your parents don’t have the finances to support your cricket interests, you miss out.
Many young children around the world are learning how to play cricket in the play grounds at school. This is the best place to pick up cricket when you are young. Learning the game with your school friends is an ideal way to go.
When young cricket followers get really keen and want to play cricket like their idols, the next step for them is to get some coaching from a local coach at a club. If they are lucky they might have a coach at their school.