Can Cricket Overtake Football?

[laksh_01]

After the start of IPL, pakistan announcing their version of premier league to start next year & England on plans of EPL... With T20 gaining huge markets & popularity. Do u think cricket has enough power to overtake football in future?

 

[Richard]

Only in one country is cricket less popular than football (that's football as in soccer), and it is never remotely likely to overtake it in popularity for more than a few months in this country.

For it to do so would take something unforeseeable.

 

[Barney Rubble]

No. Not in a million years. Never. No chance. Jamais. Etc etc.

 

[Richard]

BTW, nice Rodgie-esque poll.

 

[Langeveldt]

Yes it does, unfortunatly

 

[silentstriker]

I don't think it does, unfortunately.

 

[andruid]

Why the hell should it, at least not at the cost of sensibility...

 

[headhunter]

Can't see it happening in my lifetime.

 

[GIMH]

Football winter Cricket summer love it

 

[Scaly piscine]

Depends in what sense to 'overtake'. In terms of sheer number of people it's possible if it happened to take off in China, but in a more general sense I can't see it happening.

 

[GGG]

In Europe and South America no chance.

 

[Xuhaib]

I can see ricket a clear #2 in the not so distant future.

 

[Goughy]

Football winter Cricket summer love it

Yep

As for the poll, no chance. Even if the World Health Organisation proved a link between following football and testicular cancer there would still be far more people interested in it.

Football is so simple and accessable.

 

[haroon510]

it depends.. if we get cricketers like dravid and kallis in near future.. hell no.. the 20 twenty game has the potential to be as good as a football game.. if the right players are played on the game..

 

[Xuhaib]

it depends.. if we get cricketers like dravid and kallis in near future.. hell no.. the 20 twenty game has the potential to be as good as a football game.. if the right players are played on the game..

 

[silentstriker]

it depends.. if we get cricketers like dravid and kallis in near future.. hell no.. the 20 twenty game has the potential to be as good as a football game.. if the right players are played on the game..

If popularity depends on not having all time great players, I'd rather be unpopular.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

No. Football is #1 because of its simplicity.

 

[roseboy64]

Improbable.

 

[The_Bunny]

I can see ricket a clear #2 in the not so distant future.

If it isnt allready.

 

[grecian]

Yes the clear second team-sport is a much more viable option.

It's such a muddled picture. The money of the big U.S. sports against the people watching of the other often colonially based sports, which have the numbers.

Hate American sports, don't like egg-chasing, so I'd be delighted if cricket in any form could become the undisputed number two.