In India cricket is making news every day and people are mad about it. At the same time people are complaining for excess patronage given to cricket over other sports by media, government, corporates and even general public.
I see it from different angle if cricket is today's most popular game in india it is because of its players' all round consistent performance, a structured and regular infrastructure to develop talent even from smaller cities and definatly the TOP GOVERNING BODY i.e. BCCI.
This back end infrastructure is the key for todays sucess for cricket.
for other games like hockey, football, chess etc India lacks a dedicated governing body who is interested in promoting game, here people are more interested and busy in affairs other than related to games. Hockey has its share of prominance and popularity untill 1980 when they won moscow olympic gold. but after that not only the game deteriorated the governing body also become aloof and paid less attention to make game popular in schools and creating and maintaing infrastructure for the game.
Even today hockey has sponsorships from Sahara. Hockey players are on rolls of PSU giants like ONGC, IOC, Indian Airlines etc.
Here governing bodies of other games need to think and act more towards popularising these games.
