Football Vs Cricket: Which 11 A-Side Game Is More Interesting?
Football Vs Cricket: Which 11 A-Side Game Is More Interesting?
FOOTBALL VS CRICKET | For all the football fans out there, you must be wondering why is this guy wasting time on explaining the simplest of questions! However, let me lay down some clear facts and analogies so that you can understand why football is much better than cricket. Both games involve 11 players a side. Still, comparing football to cricket is like comparing vodka to water. I must be crazy comparing the liveliest of sports to the dullest of sports. So before we let our mind wander off to more fitting comparisons, let’s see why football is a better game than cricket.
1) The Game:
To start off, football is a game where you’re either all in or nothing. As a player you got to give your everything to the game. However, it’s different with cricket. It just so happens that one or two players can carry their bat through the innings and win the game for the team single-handedly. With football, this isn’t possible.
Football needs the entire support and coordination from the team. Even if one player messes up just one shot, the game can turn in favour of the opponent in the last minute of the match. Football is all about teamwork while cricket, not so much I’d say. If you are a Sachin fan and Sachin is at the crease you’d switch off your TV if he were to get out the next ball.
That won’t be the case with a Messi fan, if Messi misses a goal, the fan continues to cheer and watch the game till the last minute hoping that he’d get to see Messi score the winning goal! So be it the player or the fan, you’re all in from the beginning till the end!
2) The Coach / Manager:
In football, there’s only one boss and you all know that it’s the Team Manager. The team manager calls the shots and the team follows. He has the entire control over the team. However, with cricket the coach or the team manager doesn’t have the entire power in his hands.
Sometimes it’s the team captain calling the shots and sometimes it’s the President of the board. (Read M.S.Dhoni and Srini Mama ;)) If you recollect recent events, Kohli made Kumble resign as the coach of Team India. Can you imagine something like that happening to Sir Alex Ferguson?
Imagine having read the headlines stating Ronaldo objects to Sir Alex being the coach at Manchester United. That’d be totally impossible. The football manager controls the players and not vice-versa like cricket.
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