MeFi post: So, you thought Cricket was for sissies, aye?

Cricket is freaking huge in India. Cricketers are practically worshipped, and earn insane amounts of dough through advertising and stuff. Oh, and living in India and saying you aren't interested in cricket gets you lots of weird stares! The love of cricket is so widespread that all other differences dissolve in front of it.

The weird thing is that the national sport of India is hockey, but no one pays any attention to it at all.

IMO, the amount... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ogami at 7:17 AM on March 20, 2008