It is the sport which makes lakhs of people drive home early from work to catch a match (in the process they leave office work).
It makes thousand of students skip school in order to see India Play (they miss out on education).
Every youngsters play this game and dreams of playing for the country.
Cricket is the sport that takes up most of the news print devoted to all sports (when Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi Won the US Open 2000, they were given only One-Tenth of the sports pages by news papers as the Indian Cricket team had won a One-Day match against Zimbabawe.
It is the sport that determines the mood of the entire nation. If India wins, the whole country celebrates (though does not happen too often).
Cricket unites all Indians (lazy, untalented Indians).
Because of Cricket no youngsters is interested in playing any other game (we do not have any Player performing up to the Olympics Standard in any discipline. For that matter, India would not win a single medal if Cricket was included in the Olmpics).
Cricket, it is the sport that takes up most of our conversations