"Sport pages are 98% cricket"
The
30-year-old man alone embodies the Indians' overwhelming enthusiasm for
cricket, the country's most popular sport. "It's impossible to know the
number of people who have been fired because the federation does not keep the
accounts, but 90% of the Indians have played cricket at least once in their
lives," said journalist Amritanshu Gupta. During major competitions, it is
not uncommon to
see dozens
of Indian fans clumped in front of the window of a store equipped with a
television. Other sports have only crumbs, as noted Jagdish Singh, famous
boxing coach: "In the sports pages, it's 98% cricket, 2% for the
rest". Each piece of vacant land, in town or in villages, is the scene of
improvised parties. Young people go to
Cricket is a
religion in India, of which Chaudhary is by far the most fervent faithful.
Frightened to see his pact "litchis against notes" threatened at the
approach of the retreat of Tendulkar, he threatened several times to immolate
himself by fire if the Federation did not guarantee him places for life! And
around the Delhi stadium, during a match against the Netherlands, spectators
with green-white-red faces wearing the shirt of the selection drank a brick of
milk ... a radio which guaranteed that this gesture would offer the victory to
their team.

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