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Can Cricket Overtake Football?

Can Cricket Overtake Football in Future?


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laksh_01

State Vice-Captain
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?
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
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.
 

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
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.
 

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Football winter Cricket summer love it
Yep

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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haroon510

International 12th Man
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..
 

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
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..
If popularity depends on not having all time great players, I'd rather be unpopular.
 

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yes the clear second team-sport is a much more viable option.

It's such a muddled picture. The money of the big U.S. sports against the people watching of the other often colonially based sports, which have the numbers.

Hate American sports, don't like egg-chasing, so I'd be delighted if cricket in any form could become the undisputed number two.
 

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