INTERVIEW / Cricket Playing or Watching

Cricket Playing or Watching

(i) What is your specialization in playing cricket? viz. batting bowling(pace/spin), fielding,
all-rounder.
At what level do you play club, college, state or Mohalla cricket ?
(ii) Is cricket overshadowing other games and sports in India? Commercialization of cricket
is a bane or a boon? Comment.
(iii) Indian cricket team has not been able to reach consistently the top ranking in
Test/ODI despite BCCI being the richest sports body and it having access to best
professionals. Why? What should be done to strengthen cricket at grass root/domestic level.
(iv) Is T-20 going to kill Tests/ODIs? Or do you think it will popularize cricket and enable
its entry in the Asian Games/Olympics? Whats your take?
(v) We have more stars and superstars in the Indian team and less of cricketers.
Comment
(vi) Know about cricketing terms, e.g. Reverse Swing, Chinaman, Silly point,Reversesweep, Switch-hit, etc.
(vii) Know about cricketing controversies; match fixing, ball tampering, use of drugs,
sledging, etc.
(viii) Should singular cricketing association like BCCI be allowed to dominate the game in
a Country?
(ix) Is too much of cricket being played these days?