Lately, I’ve been thinking about how cricket might be evolving the way football has — especially with franchise leagues becoming bigger and fans getting more attached to teams than countries.
But that’s not even my main point. **So please don’t jump in to debate that 😄**
Here’s the funny part.
Whenever I try to start this conversation with my football-loving friends, the moment they hear "cricket" and "football" in the same sentence, everything changes. Suddenly, it doesn’t matter what I was actually trying to discuss.
They immediately switch to full defence mode:
* "Football is the biggest sport in the world."
* "Cricket is played by like 5 countries."
* "Football fans are more passionate."
* …and the usual greatest hits.
The funny thing is… I actually agree with most of that. I wasn’t even trying to prove cricket is bigger than football. But at that point, it doesn’t matter anymore. The lecture must go on.
And this has happened multiple times now.
So I’m curious — is this a universal experience, or do I just have very passionate friends? 😄
Cricket might have more fans that football worldwide. I really don't know. I am pretty sure it's more popular than baseball.
Countries tend to either be baseball countries or cricket countries. Look at all the cricket countries abscent from WBC
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Infinite_Crow_3706Mar 30, 2026
+1
Francheses are considered 'anti-competitive' by most football fans. And that understates the disgust that many people have for artificial leagues.
Closed shop leagues like IPL/NFL/MLB etc might have their place for niche sports but football fans are extremely hostile to closing off competition as we saw with the 'European Super League' fiasco a few years ago.
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