The new Twenty20 cricket league is bringing the best players in the world together for a multi-million dollar competition in India. The games of high intensity cricket are played over a time frame of six weeks all across India. These games are televised to all leading cricket countries - world cricket has not seen this volume 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.
World 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 English side and a West Indian 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. Twenty20 cricket has brought back the family atmosphere that was starting to fall away. It is almost a party feeling in the Twenty20 first class cricket games of each country.
Indian Cricket
If they did go out on the street, fans would swarm them and their safety would be risked. Ten years ago one frenzied fan committed suicide when Sachin Tendulkar was injured badly and it was reported 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 players have personal body guards and only venture out at night in their cars so people won’t identify them.
The safest way for them to be in public is to journey to other countries for their holidays.
Australian Cricket Team
Over the last ten years the Australian cricket players have laid the benchmark for all world cricket playing nations. They hold the current world record for 15 successive test wins.
Teams all over 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 anticipations of the nation there is always a player with great ability to step in and take their place. There is no other country in world cricket that has the deepness of the Australian cricket team.
West Indies Cricket
West Indies cricket was extremely strong during the 1980’s. They were well known for their fast bowlers.
Most world cricket teams have one or two really fast 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 sorry sight 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 money to support your cricket interests, you miss out.
Most young children around the world are learning how to play cricket in the play grounds at school. This is the best place to start playing cricket when you are young. Learning the game with your school friends is an ideal way to go.
When young cricket fans get really keen and want to play cricket like their heroes, the next step for them is to get some tuition from a local coach at a club. If they are lucky they might have a coach at their school.