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View Poll Results: Can Cricket Overtake Football in Future?
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Old 25-04-2008, 08:53 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Icon5 Can Cricket Overtake Football?

After the start of IPL, pakistan announcing their version of premier league to start next year & England on plans of EPL... With T20 gaining huge markets & popularity. Do u think cricket has enough power to overtake football in future?
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Old 25-04-2008, 08:54 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Only in one country is cricket less popular than football (that's football as in soccer), and it is never remotely likely to overtake it in popularity for more than a few months in this country.

For it to do so would take something unforeseeable.
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Old 25-04-2008, 08:55 AM   #3 (permalink)
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No. Not in a million years. Never. No chance. Jamais. Etc etc.
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Old 25-04-2008, 08:56 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:08 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Yes it does, unfortunatly
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:18 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I don't think it does, unfortunately.
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:25 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Why the hell should it, at least not at the cost of sensibility...
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Old 25-04-2008, 09:41 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Old 25-04-2008, 10:19 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Depends in what sense to 'overtake'. In terms of sheer number of people it's possible if it happened to take off in China, but in a more general sense I can't see it happening.
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In Europe and South America no chance.
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Old 25-04-2008, 10:38 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I can see ricket a clear #2 in the not so distant future.
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Old 25-04-2008, 11:19 AM   #13 (permalink)
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As for the poll, no chance. Even if the World Health Organisation proved a link between following football and testicular cancer there would still be far more people interested in it.

Football is so simple and accessable.
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it depends.. if we get cricketers like dravid and kallis in near future.. hell no.. the 20 twenty game has the potential to be as good as a football game.. if the right players are played on the game..
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it depends.. if we get cricketers like dravid and kallis in near future.. hell no.. the 20 twenty game has the potential to be as good as a football game.. if the right players are played on the game..

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