Do you feel that cricket supports fair play and tolerance?
Is cricket the most tolerant sport in the world? Anyone can play it, you don't have to be a super fit athlete. There has been many a chubby cricketer, a balding one, a bespectacled one, smokers, drinkers, epileptics, diabetics.....there appear to be no boundaries. People from all persuasions can play or watch or just enjoy cricket.
Is it the most tolerant sport in the world?
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I agree with the above user (cnqaus) that perhaps the word "tolerant" is the wrong one to use here. "Inclusive" would be more apt (but even then I think there are problems that arise out of using even that word).
I mean you’re right in the sense that anyone can pick up a bat and play the game whether they be fit, fat, unwell, disabled, man, woman, gay, straight, blind or perfectly sighted. And the ECB (and other boards around the world, though I’m not sure to what extent) at least do cater for lots of different people and abilities. http://www.ecb.co.uk/development/disability-cricket/schedule/
But that makes it inclusive. It doesn’t make it tolerant, especially not when you consider other factors. Women’s cricket isn’t exactly tolerated by some factions is it? Also, take as another example, the fact that that there’s so much of a funding disadvantage, and discrepancy, between some areas of cricket (such as between blind, deaf, disabled and, hell, even women’s cricket and the more mainstream, able bodied, version which gets the majority of the cash). If it were truly tolerant then those things wouldn’t exist, cricket would be tolerant to all at a professional level. But it isn’t. There are still major inadequacies at the top level that have lead to many areas of cricket not even getting much recognition and certainly not the recognition they deserve. Some participants of the game are treated very poorly actually.
Not only that but it doesn’t actually make the players themselves all that tolerant of each other. Look at how much sledging goes on (and some sledging goes way beyond banter and in to bullying). Daniel Vettori, for example, a player who wears glasses is nicknamed "Harry Potter" and called all sorts on the field because of the fact he has poor eyesight (that was started, apparently, by the Australian players during a Aus/NZ Test series). Players are also severely lambasted for being overweight, unfit, ill, in poor form, for their race, their background, their sexual habits, their marital status and who they’re married too. The list goes on and on. And it’s not just the players themselves involved with that sort of discrimination, it’s also done by the by the media and by the fans.
And speaking of the fans, I certainly don’t think (some of the) fans are the most tolerant people in the world. If a player or team is seen to have something of a disadvantage about him/her/them then you can bet your life that it will be used in a derogatory manner to try and either discredit that player/team or used to try and put them off their game. Look at all of the rubbish that gets chanted at the matches, spoken about in conversation, or posted on message boards (especially this one) about teams and individual players. Not to mention about the fans themselves, fans aren’t tolerant of each other sometimes either.
None of that says tolerant to me. In fact, sport has a habit of breading intolerance.
So tolerant, no certainly not. But inclusive, yes (especially considering that despite the fact that while there are still so many problems for certain groups of people if they want to play there’s nothing to stop them actually playing).
cricket is known as gentlemen’s game
& everyone knows what is gentlemen’s patience
so while watching the game or playing it u need to patient for scoring boundaries or taking wickets
In my view cricket promotes nation v/s nation rivalry as people don’t give a damn about domestic cricket or county cricket.
In soccer we have EPL, FA cup and the UEFA cup and so on, people don’t really give that much importance to international games. It’s all about the clubs and money. The same is with basketball(NBA) and baseball.
When the fans are supporting their favorite clubs they don’t really get that much serious about the game. But when the game goes international and a nation’s pride is online, it becomes a totally different ball game.
Ever wondered why our cricket section is so chaotic?
It’s because the pride of nations is on the line. Especially with India v/s Pakistan matches where two countries who have fought 4 wars against each other and have a hell of a bloody history play against each other. Even in the Australia v/s England matches where both the nations fight for the pride of their domestic cricket.
The Ashes, the mother of all rivalries(in Test Matches) Sentiments do risen up with so much is on the online and sometimes some of us even say some things to others which we shouldn’t say.
Cricket is a beautiful game but only when it’s played between gentlemen.
It becomes a personal issue for many when the nations pride gets involved.
Tolerant is probably the wrong word, inclusive would be closer to the mark. It’s what make it great, it’s what makes it fun.
You just may be right, I never thought about this before.
i think Golf can be play at wheel chair LOL
indeed,it does.
it supports ‘fair play’ and ‘tolerance’
but cricket is not the only sport that does
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examples in cricket are Mike Atherton,
BS Chandrasekhar,Wasim Akram,Craig McMillan,Tony Greig,Martin Guptill and many more
so,i think cricket is one of the most tolerant sports in the world.
Yes absolutely. As this would tell you - https://www.lords.org/data/images/originals/soc-michael-vaughan-england-39407.jpg
In my experience while there is always team/national pride and rivalry at stake that most people who go along to international games will generally recognise and applaud good cricketers, no matter what side they are playing for.
its a gentleman’s game.