Watch Live Cricket

ABOUT CRICKET

Cricket, as you know, is a game played among the common wealth nations, but is soon catching up to many countries across the world now, and is the fourth most popular game in the world in terms of viewership. Thousands of cricket fans can now easily watch live cricket on their PC thanks to LivesportsTV.

Cricket's origin dates back to the 16 th century but the real international cricket started in the 19 th century in England. At that time only a few countries played it between them. Soon, when the British started colonies across the world, it started spreading wherever British had their colonies. At that time, they started playing in their free time. Many colonies including, India and their natives, started to play cricket among themselves. At that time, cricket was not as popular as it was now, as they tend to play the game for days during their leisure time.

For those who don't know that cricket is, it is a bat and ball game very similar to baseball, where the bowler bowls to the batsman and the batsman scores runs by hitting the ball across the ground and scores runs and the team which scores more runs than the other is termed the winner.

Cricket used to be played only by royal families in some countries. It would be like a picnic-like situation where the families of those who are playing would gather around the playing stadium to watch live cricket with kids and relatives. It would go on for days for a match to finish and get a result.

Cricket as a game become more popular during the 20 th century when the TV came into existence when people started to watch live cricket across the globe, especially countries like Australia , U.K. , India , Pakistan , etc. Since 1974, there was only one format of the game and that is test cricket, which was played during the span of six days and people only watched live cricket only in the field as there was no access to television. But many people tend to hear live cricket on radio with only the commentary and at that time many started showing interest in cricket and was soon gaining popularity.

Then came the 1974, when those who control the game, namely ICC (International Cricket Council) came together and started a new format of the game, called One Day International. Many conservationists objected to this format, where the game was played just for a single day whereas the real cricket was played for five days and even after playing for five days, you will end with no result where matches end without any result. Many argued that One Day Cricket is not the real cricket, but the fact remained that it gained more popularity than the five-day version of the game, as it was clearly evident with many more people, particularly, youngsters, started to watch live cricket both at the stadium as well as through the most powerful medium called television.

The most important aspect on why this format became popular is due to the fact that the time duration was limited to just eight hours and you saw a result almost 99% of the time. Then came the most important turning point of cricket, that is, the world cup. In 1975, the first world cup was played at England . It was won by West Indies . Then they decided to start playing the cricket world cup every four years. The 1983 world cup was surprisingly won by India, which could be the turning point in cricketing history, as that is when cricket became the most popular game in the Indian Subcontinent and the viewership of the game when the most populous nations like India started showing a greater interest in the game.

After that many countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia have won the subsequent world cup events. Cricket has almost become a religion in India, which has started to adopt cricket like a religion and the players like their gods.

There were many series played between the cricket playing nations, both test match cricket and one day internationals. Where one nation will tour the other and play between them a series of around one to five test matches and same number of one day matches.

The name cricket will not be complete without mentioning the name Ashes. It is a series of test matches played between England and Australia. It was the most popular cricket tournament next only to the world cup. There were very many historic matches played between these two cricket playing nations. One among them is the infamous bodyline series in 1933, when the England adopted a new technique, by bowling at the body of the players and not the bat, to tackle the Australian batsmen, particularly Sir Don Bradman, who played cricket with ease and panache that he eventually became a legend in the cricketing history.

After the world cup and Ashes, the next most popular tournament in the 1980s would be the world series matches which was played among the test playing nations and the winner will be decided among them with a series of one day internationals played between them and deciding the winner.

There was also an unofficial and most popular series which started to gain more prominence and that is the cricket series between India and Pakistan . Due to the political rivalry between these two nations, people started believing that winning the matches among them is similar to winning in the political front. There will always be a war-like situation when these two countries play cricket between them. The number of people who started to watch live cricket almost tripled when these nations battled it out on the cricket field.

Then ICC started another tournament during the 1990s which is named as ICC Champions Trophy which was termed as mini world cup. It was decided to play ICC Champions Trophy every two years between the test playing nations and other subordinate nations.

Now, after the popularity in South Africa , another format of the game has emerged and it is called 20-20 or Twenty20 Cricket. It is a new format where it is played with three hours and each team has to bowl only 20 overs between to decide the winner. This is the latest craze among the cricket fans since the excitement and entertainment has almost doubled the 50-overs version. The TV viewership increased and those who turned up to the stadium to watch live cricket almost tripled. This format of the game is what is going to make cricket truly global and expected to reach every corner of the world and not only between the commonwealth nations.

Many preferred to watch the cricket matches live on TV or Internet rather than going to the stadium to watch due to time constraints caused by personal and professional life. Hence the popularity of watching live cricket on your PC has grown phenomenally and the money involved with the game has multiplied thousand times with millions of dollars being spent by television and other media to grab the rights to show the cricket matches live across the globe. At LivesportsTV we show you how you can watch live cricket for a simple one-off fee! Since multitasking is the buzz word now, watching cricket on the Internet is the best way to get to view your favorite sports and catch up with your work in between.