An original essay on the team sport Cricket, written by our student Rishik Grover.

Rishik is 11 years old young writer from Gurugram. He loves cricket and music. We are proud to have him as a student of the Little Writers Program, an Online Creative Writing Program using Applied Storytelling & Theatre tools under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Rishik for this exemplary true self-expression.

Cricket

Imagine a world where Cricket was everyone’s favorite sport. It would be the place of my dreams. Your ideas may differ and I understand that. Everybody has their favorite sport, mine is Cricket, yours could be football.

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about Cricket is team building. With cricket, you get to learn to work in a group. It improves collaboration because you have to understand your teammates and how you can shape your game according to that. I feel that if you are not good with groups you should try a team-building sport like Cricket and football. A lot of people would argue that Cricket is a slow-paced game. This is where I come to my second point on why you should play Cricket, patience. The game allows you to work on your patience which can only be a plus side. Also, for people who fail to appreciate this critical trait, there is always the T20 format in which you get to watch and play a fast-paced intense game.

In football, the only sort of action is when you get to see a goal which is also not guaranteed during a match. Cricket is England’s national sport but for India, it’s like a religion, practiced by the masses. Cricket is believed to have originated in England in 1611. It came to India during the English rule and Indians took up the sport. The effort that India and the government put into Cricket has paid off because now the Indian team is the best there is. These are some of the many reasons that make me believe that Cricket is the best sport.

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