Why cricket is better than basketball – An analysis
On one side there is cricket, the gentleman’s game, played with a certain formality, poise and elegance where the game focuses more on giving respect. On the other side, there is basketball, a game where the correct size of attire is three sizes too large,
where tattoos take the place of sleeves and where it is more about demanding respect than showing it.
While the two games share nothing similar apart from both being played with a ball and a laundry list of technical and complicated rules, not to mention a stop start flow to the game, there is still room for comparison.
Basketball takes place in United States of America in the NBA or the National Basketball Association. Played over the course of a few months with the season split in two parts and teams divided into conferences, the best teams from the two conferences go
through to the ‘post season’. It is basically a drawn out annual world cup if it was in the cricketing world.
Compare that to the collared shirt, pants and caps of the cricketing world, one can see the difference in mannerism the two sports promote. One is almost custom made for saving money on shopping with the difference in size of the garment and the person who
wears it, ensuring that the shorts bought today will last another ten years. While the other promotes a semi-formal, gentlemanly and mature image for those fortunate enough to be involved in the game.
Apart from the image each game portrays, basketball has more rules than a porcupine has spikes. One may argue that the same is the case with cricket, and to some extent it is an accurate enough assessment. Yet, the difference is that basketball has so many
rules in play at once that there are usually as many fouls are there are points scored.
In cricket, the rules are stage wise and only a few are applied at a given time. In basketball, however, every foul brings with it a break in play, with repercussions and time outs taken that never really allow the game to flow. An honest person would tell
you that a freely flowing game of basketball would be hard to resist, regardless of one were interested in it or not.
Yet, that is not the case. Basketball does not flow freely, it does not promote sensible dressing among the impressionable youth that follows it and it aims but almost always fails in its continuous attempts to defy gravity. The fact is that cricket has
over the years mastered how to create a flow to a stop-start type of game and until basketball can replicate this, cricket will always be better than basketball.
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