Depends what you mean by best. I presume you mean most popular. I don't know how to quantify it but there's about 1.7 billion people on the Indian sub-contintent and the game is practically a religion there.
Yes junc, I'd say Cricket is the 2nd most popular sport in the world. It was a fact that over 1 billion people tuned in to watch India vs Pakistan...No other sport, beside soccer can match that. I find it to be a very tactical game, more so then baseball...But we are not as exposed to it in the US so I just cannot get as amped for it. Maybe one day if the US gets a good team and they build interest. I think the issue is patience, people call baseball boring...A 50 over game (50x6 = 300 pitches per side, 6 hr game) can get tiring. A 20 over game (3 hr game) is definitely something I find to be appealing
Actually the T20 Cricket (20 over game) I was talking about had a great article on CNN. Def worth a read T20 takes off: Baseball fuels cricket's rise http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/20/sport/baseballers-move-to-cricket-julien-fountain/
This is strange to me. It's so popular worldwide, yet it's basically pay per view to watch the World Cup. http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/fe...5-live-on-your-pc-smartphone-or-tablet-660446 USA If you are based in the US, you can buy an online subscription to watch ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 from ESPN. This pass costs $99.99 and is available here. UK Sky Sports is the official Cricket World Cup 2015 broadcaster in the UK. If you are a Sky subscriber, you can watch TV online via Sky Go. If you don't have a Sky subscription, you will have to buy a Now TV pass to watch the Cricket World Cup 2015 live. A day pass (valid for 24 hours) costs £6.99 and a week pass costs £10.99. Australia Fox Sports network has the broadcast rights for live coverage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in India. To watch it live online you need a Foxtel Play subscription; more details available on the Fox website. Pakistan PTV Sports offers live streaming free online (for Pakistan residents only). You can watch all matches here. South Africa SuperSport will live stream all Cricket World Cup 2015 matches online, but you need to be an existing TV subscriber to be able to watch these games. Live stream available here. New Zealand Sky Sport 3 is going to be broadcasting all the Cricket World Cup 2015 matches. You can watch it live online here. You need a Sky Go subscription for this, which you can purchase here. Canada Sportsnet is the official broadcaster in Canada for the Cricket World Cup 2015. It has a Cricket World Cup 2015 package that costs $179.99 to watch all matches live online. You can subscribe here. This page won't open if you are trying to access it from outside Canada.
they just blew a call afghanistan bowling, they caught it in the air but they got it wrong and afghanistan didn't challenge (or "refer", I think they said)
Yisman, are you new to cricket? This matchup Bangladesh vs Afghanistan is probably shit...Still neat to see these two teams put play against each other in a top competition. Afghanistan is like a huge underdog to a Bangladesh team that is still not very good, tells you about the massive gap and insanity for the Afghans if they win. The next best match is Friday night...New Zealand vs England and a very balanced one with India vs South Africa on Sunday.
Caught some of the ESPN coverage free on that site, not bad...But I am not paying $99 bucks. Free live stream is where it's at!
Yes. I was watching to see which would happen first: four 4s or one 6. http://streak.espn.go.com/en/entryStats?entryID=23913
A bit like watching the Jags play the Raiders in game 4 of pre-season... for those with a serious interest in one of the two teams playing only.
I've never really played but I used to see a dozen or so guys from Sri Lanka play every Thursday at a park in Vegas. I only knew they were from Sri Lanka because I talked to them , they offered to teach me but I had commitments at the time. I find it an odd game but I am intrigued by obscure sports, I used to spend a lot of time in England and I tried to watch it in bars but I couldn't really follow it.
I don't think hockey is in the discussion for most popular though it is more popular than soccer and cricket here...for now.
no, jags/raiders regular season it still counts, it wasn't an exhibition Hockey is nowhere near soccer and cricket. Ice hockey is huge in Canada. It's played in Europe too, but there it's way behind soccer for the most part (except in the Nordic countries, and those are not the major European countries). Also, it's non-existent in most non-European countries. If we were ranking sports by worldwide popularity, I don't even think hockey would be third.
They have a habit of spoiling the party...they really have improved in the sport. I recall them beating England in 2011 at the World Cup. That was a big deal I recall..hope they thrive here
