Cricket is a game of Passion

The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century
to the present day, with international matches played since 1844 and
the Test cricket matches since 1877. During this time, the game
developed from its origins in England into a game, which is now played
all over the world passionately and is more popular in the
Sub-Continent Nations such as, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh.

In these four Nations, cricket has emerged as the most popular form of
sports. The game has its origin in the Sub- Continent Nations from18th
centuries and since then it has rooted itself on various grounds of
World. In this span of time the above three nation has faced several
rise and falls. As per Bangladesh is concerned, the origin of cricket
is seen from the 19th century. The nation also came with full-fledged
enthusiasm with well-known players. It is after that the four
Sub-Continent Nation faced tremendous victory and defeat.

With the commencing of Cricket World Cup in 1975, the popularity of
cricket reached on its peak. The game retained more zeal and passion.
However, for Sub-Continent Nation World Cup it becomes like an
obsession and even today the game is still holding the same passion
and fever.

When we move towards their previous history, we find that the top
three Sub-Continent Nation i.e. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka had a
very brilliant past, holding World Cup once. India lifted the Cup in
the year 1983, under the captaincy of Kapil Dev,Pakistan lifted the
Cup in 1992, captained by Imran Khan. In 1996, Sri Lanka won the World
Cup match, under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga. As per Bangladesh
is concerned, the popularity of cricket is found the same but it's
their bad luck, which never pulled them to win the Cup. Though, the
team is trying hard to get that!

2007 is the year for the ninth edition of the World Cup Cricket
Tournament, and the four Nations are holding its breath. The flow, the
passion is still the same but only the players and the captaincy and
getup has changed. The players are coming with their new outfits, with
new look carried with rocking fervor and stunning passion. In this
tournament India is being captained by Rahul Dravid, Sri Lanka is
being captained by Mahela Jayawardene, Pakistan is being captained by
Inzamam-ul-Haq and Bangladesh is being captained by Habibul Bashar.

The hopes for these four Nations are dilemmatic, as their previous
performance, was not that much appealing. When we cast our view
towards India and Sri lanka, we found that Sri Lanka was defeated by
India in the recently concluded home series. As per Pakistan is
concerned, they are moving from a very bad phase, their players are
injured and the team is surrounded by many controversies. And, there
is no word to explain about Bangladesh. The prospect of World Cup is
under dilemma tic situation but the passion and popularity is still the
same among these four Sub-Continent Nations.

After words 2007 is not so good for Indian Team India as lots of
things are changing after the dramatically out of the worldcup. But as
year was emerging towards the end. New sensation, Passion and whole new
Era of cricket begin for the world As well as for India. The new Era
called T20 Cricket and what a start for it as it start the world cup
of it and India's winning.

So stay tune for the next artical in which i will try to recreate that
era with the same passion again in which T20 World Cup and IPL will
covered.

Written By
RUPESH KHOSAL