Which is the favourite sport of your country?
By amirev777
@amirev777 (4117)
India
January 3, 2019 2:04am CST
Here in India the favourite sport is cricket, cricket and cricket. No other sport comes even closer in terms of popularity. Some say cricket is almost like a religion in India, and that India is doing very well in all forms of this game at international level has only given it more boost. I know most of you will not be very much conversant with cricket. Which is the favourite sport of your country?
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
3 Jan 19
Perhaps I should have been born in India! I have always loved the sport but never had the opportunity to play it in England.
I made the mistake of being out first ball during my first cricket lesson at school and was immediately relegated to playing "rounders", a status from which I never escaped. All subsequent attempts to join a cricket club were met with "what experience do you have?", to which the answer had to be "none". I have therefore played only four cricket matches during my life and my greatest ambition was to score a run - which I never managed to do!
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@indexer Yes, Indians will be perpetually indebted to the English for gifting us this sport.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
3 Jan 19
@amirev777 As you may have noticed, we try to ensure that you don't beat us when we play against each other!
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
3 Jan 19
The philippines is a basketball crazy coumtry.
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@louievill Do you play basketball? I feel the game is only meant for very tall people.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
3 Jan 19
@amirev777 i played a lot of basketball when I was younger, I'm not exactly short, I'm 5 ft.9 inches or 175.26 cm. My 2 sons are taller than me, Filipinos are getting tall.
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@SreekalaYes, sadly Hockey, our national sport has no many takers.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
3 Jan 19
@amirev777 There must be some valid reasons behind it.
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@jstory07 Here in India too, football. also known as soccer is the second most favourite sport.
@responsiveme (22923)
• India
3 Jan 19
Cricket as people are playing,watching,talking cricket .
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@responsiveme Yes, you are right, cricket is almost like a religion.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
3 Jan 19
@amirev777 in open fields of villages,in gully of cities and when there is a band on the main roads too
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@Kasjnak (4489)
• Romania
3 Jan 19
In Romania soccer is the king. But also gymnastics and handball, they get a nice share 
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When there was some cricket competition on tv, I used to change channel, but one time I said "Ok, let's give it a try". After one hour, I learned the rules and I actually liked it .
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When there was some cricket competition on tv, I used to change channel, but one time I said "Ok, let's give it a try". After one hour, I learned the rules and I actually liked it .1 person likes this
@amirev777 (4117)
• India
4 Jan 19
@Kasjnak Yes that is true - all good things come to an end!
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
4 Jan 19
@Kasjnak Good to know you liked cricket. I know Romanians also love gymnastics. Who can forget Nadia Comeneci?
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@Kasjnak (4489)
• Romania
4 Jan 19
@amirev777 yeah, she is a legend . We use to rule gymnastics, but not anymore, all good things come to an end .
. We use to rule gymnastics, but not anymore, all good things come to an end .1 person likes this
@m_audrey6788 (58468)
• Germany
3 Jan 19
Many people loves boxing in the Philippines
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
3 Jan 19
@m_audrey6788 Oh! Boxing - that's a real violent sport, if at all it can be considered as sport
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jan 19
It would be American football.
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@amirev777 (4117)
• India
4 Jan 19
@JohnRoberts Ok copied. Is it a lot different from Soccer?
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