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Take a look back at Indian Cricket and the infamous toxic water crisis

Protesters burned goods and shoved with police outside the cricket ground in Chennai to issue a request in regard of cancelling IPL (Indian Premier League) cricket matches as the city in the south was in turmoil. The clean water crisis was the main reason for this remarkably terrible sight of India cricket.

According to the Daily Mail, at that year, hundreds of protesters, including those wearing black T-shirts and carrying black balloons, gathered near the stadium, chanting the slogans ahead of the game between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. The situation forced police to try to push protesters onto buses parking outside Chennai (the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu), where the Chennai Super Kings club had prepared to participate in their first homeside play after the cross-out two-year sentence for illegal betting. Cricket is considered as the number 1 sport in India.
Several protests also took place in Chennai during that terrible period, which included a dispute with the neighboring Karnataka state over how to share water from the Cauvery River. This used to be a hot issue in southern India. “We want all 67 IPL cricket matches in Chennai to be postponed until our requests are met,” AFP quoted a protester as saying: “We also urge the audience to boycott the match. ”
The Chennai government finally decided to relocate IPL matches out of Chennai to avoid the protests, and pledged to ensure security as IPL was still the host of local matches.

The police spokesman of Tamil Nadu revealed the information with AFP: “There are about 4,000 police officers on duty around the stadium. We will guard every space and corner to make sure nothing bad happens.”

Cricket in India are on its way of boycotting China after their border clashes

China’s funding for India’s biggest sporting event was threatened on June 19 after a border clash between the two countries.
The famous Indian cricket (IPL) organizators revealed that their leaders will arrange a meeting next week to look at sponsorship deals. For a long period, Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo has been the main sponsor of IPL when spending $ 330 million for their contract during the period between 2018 and 2022. However, recently in India, different protests has taken place to boycott Chinese companies after a clash between Indian and Chinese on the border on the Himalayas on June 15, according to AFP. The clash killed 20 Indian soldiers, and the Chinese army also suffered from casualties.
“After the border battlefield which resulted in the sacrifice of our brave soldiers, the IPL Board convened a meeting next week to look over various IPL funding deals,” IPL’s official Twitter account wrote.
IPL is the most popular tournament in India, which was not allowed to take part in this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but cricket leaders and players still hope to resume the tournament soon. According to AFP, anti-China spirit is risen quickly in India.
In the name of the China boycott, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) also said they were ready to reconsider an agreement with Chinese sports equipment producing firm Li Ning.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE CRICKET IN INDIA

  • The first female cricket team made its first debut in an international tournament in 1975.
  • In World Cup 2017 competing with England, they losted because of a trivial fault, however, it was still a remarkable achievement.
  • The cricket council can pay higher salary for women. They will not have to face any disadvantages as long as cricket becomes the spotlight and centre of million people.

The worldwide recognition of cricket as an official sports has been something misterious. Cricket is a “fight” among tears, blood and sweats. Throughout some recent years, this sports has undergone a rapid development. 1970 is known as the year in which female cricket players firstly took part in. The event took place in India.

The detailed process of the development of cricket among women

It is a common knowledge that until now, in India, cricket is still a traditional sports in which males dominate. It is hardly for a female cricket team to be seen to win any important titles or gain achievement as they deserve. To inspire women to step out of their comfort zone, in 1973, The female cricket Council of India signed a contract and the cricket federal national championship has been held since then.

This is also the turning point in which women are entitled to play any types of sports as they like, cricket in particular. Taking the way that society is treating towards cricket for women during a recent few years, everything seems to be quite conservative. This has been the period when women are not expected to step out of their role model of a family, especially when playing such a sport like Cricket.