A Historic Triumph makes me reconsider my National Game

I just can’t stop my hands writing this blog. What a magnificent win we have today! Any Indian would be proud to watch India retaining number 1 position in Test Cricket. I always keep saying cricket is not just the game for India. The joy is bigger than Bhajji’s jump after win, the pressure was immense than what was looking on Dhoni’s face and the pride was flowing around the ground more than just a cricket match.

I am not that capable to write the pressure that Mahendrasingh Dhoni and his boys have undergone but I can surely put few words on blog to say how much any Indian is happy today. I could not find time to see those final moments of hard work which converted into aggression and joy later. It reminds me two great test matches India played and won in past – one when Rahul hit 232 not out and India won against Austraila in Australia and Kumble taking 10 wickets in an inning against Pakistan and won in Kolkata.

I will also mention about a message that I got on my mobile today complaining why hockey, being a national game is not promoted, like cricket or say very predominantly IPL these days? Few people also think it’s only marketing which works behind these games. For a second I felt poor for hockey and his players but the next second a question came to my mind - do we really feel hockey as a national game? Should we reconsider our national game and replace it by cricket?

Answer for the second question was yes. It’s not just about I love cricket and I have grown up playing it. Everybody will agree that cricket has given so many happy and proud moments to this country both within and outside country whether it’s under the cap of Kapil Dev or Saurav Ganguli or Mahendrasingh Dhoni. Let’s not just restrict national game to be such games which are found and developed within territories. I know cricket, in earlier days, was considered as foreigner’s game (Recall movie Lagan) but should we ignore today’s condition? Should we forget the foreign attention and investment that IPL has generated? Should not we count the opportunities that IPL gave to those kids-looking-20 year’s guys at international stage and that also playing with international giants? And most importantly give me just 4-5 names of hockey players which are treated as god of that game world-wide. I doubt the same you won’t hesitate to give at least 8-10 from Indian cricket team. Should not we give respect to our cricket team who have shown consistenty in showing aggression, killing instinct, hunger to win, fearless performance, pressure handling brains, cool and calm approach despite immense media pressure?

Actually these great players, the insight happiness and unpredictability of the game, easy to access and wider acceptability, emotions lying at each ball say each second makes me think cricket should be our national game.

Each people who read this blog by mail or visit to my blog place please put comments below in just one word which game should be our national game? Hockey or Cricket?