For the love of the game

A billion people to cheer, a billion to pray, a billion to scream, nowhere can one find such craze but in India. It's not just a game for us, its a religion. People here think cricket, eat cricket, breath cricket; it's an emotional part of most people's life. There is very little percentage of people not affected by cricket here; be it an one year old or an eighty years old. Maybe its a bit too much but lets face it. When the team loses, there are thousands of owes made about not watching cricket there after but none kept. Its a country where the players are treated like gods on their day and the same gods effigies are thrust into the fire or their houses stoned the next morning. Never in the past people here have succeeded in getting rid of the crickets grasp and it seems never in the future will be able to do it either. In simple terms "playing for India can make a player a national hero overnight or a villain faster than that" and by the time I was writing this there were no such heroes left and a thousands of owes made about not watching cricket anymore.