Cricket is a thrill both to play the game and to watch it and its importance is no less than any sporting event. The game also encourages team spirit, fosters discipline, helps build up character and brings out the quality of leadership.
It fosters team-spirit. The subject should be taught at primary as well as secondary schools — history of the sport, names and information of world renowned West Indian cricketers, rules of the game, statistics, and other suitable areas. This move might also generate more interest in the sport since the youngsters in the region tend to be attracted to other sport such as basketball, and soccer which dominate television Sports programme.
It fosters team-spirit. The subject should be taught at primary as well as secondary schools — history of the sport, names and information of world renowned West Indian cricketers, rules of the game, statistics, and other suitable areas. This move might also generate more interest in the sport since the youngsters in the region tend to be attracted to other sport such as basketball, and soccer which dominate television Sports programme.
No other sport compares with it in the number of skills displayed: batting skill; bowling skill; throwing skill; catching skill; running skill. It requires fitness, strength, delicacy of touch, superb reflexes, footwork like a cat, the eye of a hawk, the precision and accuracy of a master jeweler. It involves individual skill and nerve and also unselfish team play. It calls for short-term tactics and long-term strategy. In the course of a good cricket match there is a mixture of courage, daring, patience, aggression, flair, imagination, expertise and dour defiance that is certainly unequaled in all other, more superficial, games.
Cricket curriculum in schools must try to bring every concept of cricket learning and training into the cricket curriculum for kids so as to prepare a child for future challenges and games.
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