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Cricket should be played as a major sport in the United States.

Tell me...out of 204 countries, how many countries are actually good at soccer? Very few are actually good at soccer such as Germany, Italy, etc. There are many small leagues of cricket in the United States which are slowly growing but not at a rate to adopt cricket as a major sport. Many colleges have cricket teams and there is an American College Cricket league which is supported by many sponsors including TV Asia. Americans are also joining college cricket teams. There are college and professional teams for sports like baseball, basketball, and football. Why not professional for cricket? Cricket is a very popular sport around the world. Since last year, my friends at school have been asking me to start a cricket club for the school. Many of them are eager to learn cricket and there are many Americans among them. This shows that Americans have a passion to learn new things, especially cricket. As a matter of fact, many middle schools in the U.S. have a cricket unit in gym class which was quite interesting to know. I'll be going into my junior year of high school this August and I am planning to start a cricket club. Let's see how many people join and how fast cricket grows in the U.S.. I even have a layout and email to send to my principal and the school district board to consider. Just see...cricket will grow and I know it. I understand what you're saying that each country has its own sports, but what harm comes in adding one more sport. The field of sports in the U.S. will become more diverse and diversity is good for society.
Cricket should be played as a major sport in the United States.

my brother i remind you that our topic is that cricket should be played by major part of US not comparison between INDIA and US .not deviating from the topic now i'm comparing cricket and other games on international basis . for your kind information the total number of participant countries are 204 in olympic and in fifa there is total 209 national association in ICC there are only 10 full members of ICC it shows most of the countries are not interested in cricket they are using there potential in other games and games like football and tennis are more internationally dominated ......most of the countries even don't know about cricket .......you have said that cricket is a game of discipline than what about match fixing .it's not more a gentleman game ..........if you are talking about money then biggest prize money is occupied by soccer tournament and all games like tennis , volleyball etc have very good prize money and fame ........you can open social networking site and see number of fans of lionel messi ,christenio ronaldo, maria sarapova, rozer ferdrer, rafel nadal those are much higher then god of cricket sachin tendulkar , brian lara , ricky ponting .even sachin is fan of rozer faderer ...so you must know that if INDIA like its cricket then other will also like it ...EVERYCOUNTRY HAVE ITS OWN IMPORTANCE REGARDING GAMES .....
Cricket should be played as a major sport in the United States.

I totally understand what you are trying to say. Of course India doesn't do good in the Olympics, tennis, Fifa... But India is a growing country and has problems of its own; poverty, overpopulated, corruption. India has been through years of British rule and have given up thousands and millions of lives, sacrificed many things, and have fought until the end. Where are we now...India has the second highest population, the most intelligent students after China, and amazing cricket teams and players. Who are the leaders behind the success of thousands on U.S. companies? Indians! The U.S. is a land of New Opportunities. Americans are slowly losing interest in baseball which has been a fierce competitor for cricket. Cricket promotes discipline, responsibility, dedication, coordination, strength, decision making, interaction, and overcoming all odds/obstacles. India is more successful in many of these areas than the U.S.. The U.S. is a world power and they still don't have any of these qualities. England is part of the European Union and the U.S. and the European Union are partners. If the U.S. adopts cricket as a major sport, then their partnership with countries like India, England, Australia, etc will expand and the U.S. will get more money.
Cricket should be played as a major sport in the United States.

i'm understanding your love for cricket ...but you must know it is not mostly played by country and you also know that hierarchy of game tournament ....the olympic is at the top and by olympic it is decided that which country is are better in sports ...country like us cricket is not popular but all other sports tenis.football .baseball.hockey....are played with great enthusiasm ......so game depends on what you like ...what you entertain ....what people of that country want to see....you have compared with india in cricket you must know that india is only know playing cricket in olympic,fifa,tenis.....it is at bottom looser ....finally i want to say that every country have its own values for games ...you have so many examples .like china second position in olympic not play cricket bez they don't like.....there is no need of cricket in united states
Cricket should be played as a major sport in the United States.

Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world after football, known as soccer in the United States. There are 10 official members of the ICC (International Cricket Council), 6 countries who are recognized in certain forms of cricket, and many other countries who are members of the ICC but don't play as often and don't play at higher levels. The U.S. has 3 official cricket stadiums and many small cricket leagues throughout the the U.S.. They also have a United States of America Cricket Association. Quite a few American presidents have had a wide interest in cricket but it was never favored because of baseball. Who started cricket? The British first started playing cricket in the 18th century and now it has become a worldwide sport. There are many different forms of cricket, some having limited overs (1 over = 6 balls) while others can go on for days at length (test matches). Let's switch over to baseball and American football for a minute. Are they play all over the world? The answer is no. The Indian Premier League, the World Cup, International tours, and only a few of the different leagues and forms of cricket played. If you take the Indian Premier League, this league played in India from April to June is one of the most richest leagues with players from many countries around the world. If cricket is played as a major sport in the U.S., they will benefit with the money, tourism, and popularity. If other countries have many talented athletes to offer, the U.S. probably has a lot to offer in cricket. It's a simple equation... Cricket in the U.S. = Money, Increased Tourism and higher popularity rates. Cricket is Life!
Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage should be legal in the U.S because it is your own rights to love someone. The new generation should start to figure out at a young age, about 14 and up, if they are gay or not. The new generation has the choice to follow in the footsteps of theirs parents and marry the opposite sex, or end up marrying the same sex. Teenagers around this age are held accountable for their own actions, so should also be allowed to choose the sex they like.
Gay Marriage

If a pair of same-sex lesbians or gay men want children, it means there are dedicated to raising their child. About 50 percent of pregnancy are accidental in opposite-sex relationships. This proves that same-sex households are more dedicated to raising a child than a household of opposite-sex. Also, studies show that children of same-sex parenting households do just as well as normal household kids in many important things in life. These include: "emotional functioning, sexual orientation, stigmatization, gender role behavior, behavioral adjustment, gender identity, learning and grade point averages." In fact, kids in some cases prefer same-sex parenting than different sex parenting. www.aamft.org
Gay Marriage

Children need both parents, a father and a mother. The female children are more likely to to have early sexual activity and more likely to get pregnant at an early age if the father isn't there with them. Children that don't have a mother are emotionally deprived of their security and doesn't have the motherly advice. In a study by Mark Regnerus, children raised by parents of the same sex suffered more difficulties in life, sexual abuse and unemployment are included in the difficulties. http://gaymarriage.procon.org...
Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage should be legal in the U.S because it is your own rights to love someone. If you are gay, you won't know it at first, it comes to you in time. It is not your falt if you become gay. You should not be held accountable for who you like, or dislike. Letting gay people marry is basically just giving them their own rights. The U.S is a free country and people should have the right to choose who to marry, even if they are gay. One group of people should not be able to take the rights of another group of people.
Gay Marriage

If gay couples are seen in public, the people around them get disgusted and try to take their children away because a man is supposed to marry a women and make out with them. The people in society aren't used to seeing two men kiss or something like that so when they do see it, they aren't that happy. The gay couples in society make the children and citizens feel uncomfortable with themselves and just being in the same neighborhood with that couple and therefore, gay couples shouldn't be legal.
God loves you.

God loves you. He loves you so much that even if you hate Him and show that hatred by saying He is not there, being willfully ignorant of His love, He still gave His Son to die in your place. As the Son of God, Jesus is God (if a man has a son, that son is human, God's Son is God) He proved God's love for you in dying in your place. You are the one who deserves to die (the same as me and everybody else) but God Himself took your death so that He can be satisfied that the death you owe for your sin is paid for and you can be forgiven. Your sin eternally makes you a sinner. The acts of sin you commit are symptoms of what you are eternally: a sinner.......that is if you do not get saved from your sin. You can be saved and be a new creation in Jesus Christ, He will give you a new heart, born of His Holy Spirit if you will A)admit you are a sinner who deserves to die and burn in Hell B) Believe on the death for your sin, burial with your sin, and bodily resurrection free from your sin accomplished by God as the Son of God, and C) Call on God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ to save you. If you will believe on Him and receive Him as your Saviour, He will give you eternal life. This is the promise of God. It's the gospel, the good news for mankind. All can be saved. God loves you.This debate challenge will be issued to somebody who shows in the comments that they will not negate the debate by simply saying it is not possible to prove God is there. Of course it is not possible to prove God is there if you are determined to believe He is not there. If you won't believe a rock is hard, I can't prove that rock is hard by telling you it is hard. if I hit you on the head and knock you out with it because you would not believe it was hard from the start and after you are knocked out it is too late to believe it, you would go into darkness having proved to yourself that as long as you were conscious, the rock could not be proved to be hard. After you wake up, you know the rock was hard. That's how it is for the atheist who finalized his death say God is not there. One day they wake up in the fire of Hell and then they know the rock was hard.
God loves you.

From your argument: '[He] cares for you because He loves you' and 'God does not expect you to follow him blindly' and 'He wants you to know Him openly' and 'God loves you and you can hide nothing from Him'. These are just a few examples of you repeatedly telling me what God thinks and does. How can you possibly know that? That is a rhetorical question because of course you cannot. You admit your source is the bible and we both know the books contained within that were decided upon by men, written by men over 1500 years and despite being inspirational words of wisdom in many parts do remain to this day works of men. I do not aim to belittle the bible at all but you simply cannot use it to prove that God loves me. You certainly cannot use it to tell me what He thinks or does but that is precisely what you have done throughout. I will give you one more example: You say I won't receive His promise of eternal life through Christ if I won't believe God loves me being the source of His promise and that the proof, and you do say proof, is in the resurrection of Christ. Please tell me how a book of collected writings of men in any way proves not only that Christ was resurrected, that he was the son of God but that God himself exists beyond doubt and that He loves me. Just because it is written in the bible does not make it fact; there are endless examples of errors in the bible just as there are in other religious works. That does not detract from their message necessarily but you cannot take everything in them as truth. Furthermore using your logic we should therefore believe everything in every other bible version along with the Koran and the Harry Potter novels for that matter. I want to know that God loves me, which is why I accepted this debate. However you circle back all the time to one source which by definition must be in doubt and have failed to provide any argument for God's existence let alone His love away from this same source. You repeatedly 'tell' me what I ought to believe and what He thinks and expects instead of showing me how I can know that for myself. You tell me you cannot provide answers if I will not believe He loves me. So you tell me God loves me and then expect me to agree in advance because unless I do I cannot know Him! Please take a step back from your argument and look at what you are saying from above. I am asking you to show me proof, to show me a way to know God that does not rely solely on a book which can be argued against very easily indeed. I am asking you to show me that religion is a clear and straight path to God but all I see is works written by men for men and that often means, unfortunately, that God and religion are two very different things. I do believe in God; I question religion although I accept there are many facets to it that provide inspiration. I will continue my search for God and an understanding of Him but you have failed to show me anything that helps in that quest.
God loves you.

If you believe God does not love you, then you must believe He does not care about you. His cares for you because He loves you. That is exactly what this debate is about. God does not expect you to follow Him blindly. He wants you to know Him openly, in the Light, not blindly in the dark. Light reveals the truth. The Light of God reveals every secret you have, every feeling, every imagination, every word, every action. God loves you and you can hide nothing from Him. How can I prove God loves you if you won't believe He loves you? God promises eternal life to all who believe He loves them so much that He gave His Son, God the Man who came down from heaven in the form of a man, the Son of god, who took on Himself all of your wrongs so He is satisfied justice was executed against you wrongs when He took your death. You don't have to take your wrongs on yourself in your death. You do not have to die. You can have eternal lfe now. This is the promise of God. He Himself is the souce of His promise. God makes this promise to you because He loves you. You won't receive His promise, the gift of God which is eternal life through Jesus Christ the Lord, if you won't believe He loves you God is the source of His promise. The proof of His promise is in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Receive Him as your Saviour, Call on God in Jesus' name, believing on His resurrection, and you will have eternal life. God loves you and He wants you to believe Him, trust in His promises, and know His love. You should believe in that and only that because there is nothing or nobody else who can make good on such a promise. Only God can do this; deliver on His promise of eternal lfe. You can have His promise now, you can be an heir of His promise now. There is no weakness in God's love. I cannot provide answers proving the Bible is His love letter to mankind if you will not beleve He loves you. I guess I have failed to prove God loves you, but I cannot concede that you have proven He does not love you. I know God loves you. God Himself cannot convince you that He loves you if you will not believe He loves you. The problem lies within the shadows of your heart, not in God's love. You are hiding from or dodging God in the shadows of your heart. You think you are hiding from or dodging God, but He loves you and nothing is hidden from Him.My arguements are based on the Bible, but I'm trying to appeal to your human reasoning. Can't you see that if you will not beleive God loves you, you can't know God's love? God died in your place to pay for the wrongs you have done against Him ( and you have done plenty wrong against God, the same as everybody else. Any wrong you do is wrong against God.) If you will not beleive He loves you so much that He died for you even though you were wrong against Him, you will die for your own wrongs and have no way of makign things right. When Jesus died for you, He became the way for you to be made right with God. There is no other way.
God loves you.

This debate is not about whether I believe God is uncaring but about whether He loves me or not and so far you have not provided any proof whatsoever in support of your assumption. You 'tell' me that He does and expect me to follow that blindly instead of showing me how I might. How can you speak of His promise; what is the source of that promise that I should believe in that and only that? I am happy for you my friend that you have such faith and that you believe in it but you have singularly failed to prove that 'God loves you' and me and everyone else. You tell me that He does but have not shown me a single item of proof that allows me to agree. Your only source is the bible and even on that you fail to answer my questions. I have not said the bible is a waste of time, it is far from it, but it is not possible to conclude your argument from it alone, especially without at least answering against its weaknesses. Let me give you one more example. You state that He rose from the dead and showed Himself alive; how do you personally know that? It is from the bible; the bible tells us that right? Is there any other source? Are there any other conclusions that might be drawn from the same facts other than that He must therefore be the Son of God personified? Is it at all possible that there might be other ways to look at Christ? If you disagree with that then you have to admit your faith is blind, which I will still respect, but then if so you have to accept your fail in your argument. However if you accept there are other possible conclusions then you cannot use that line to show God loves me without doubt. God may love me, but maybe He does not and believes it is for me to find Him and love Him without condition simply because I can. His creation would be all the more powerful if He creates sapient beings who despite His lack of proof over His existence still choose to love Him. That would singularly be the most powerful form of love. To tell me what He is and wants without any justification for it other than your beliefs based on a book of highly selective texts all written by man cannot possibly lead me to conclude God loves me without doubt. I hope you find Him and see that you believe you do. However the journey you choose is not one you can push onto other people and expect them to agree whether you like it or not. Instead of showing me God, you show me your personal conclusions drawn from the bible. Can you not see the difference or therefore the weakness in your argument for this debate? There are endless example in the bible of God being anything but loving. You say why should He love someone if they fail Him but either He shows love irrespective or you must accept He loves selectively, in which case He hardly leads by a great example as He gives up when he is fed up of being defied by people. That is not a loving God; that is more like a young child not getting their sweets. God may be love but we must find Him and know why.
God loves you.

Would you prefer to believe God is uncaring, or even worse, God is hatred; and God does not care about you or even worse, He hates you? Friend (I say friend because God is my friend and I am like you, facing the same death penalty as you before time is no longer counted down to the end. My heart goes out to you as I know God's heart goes out to all mankind, desiring that we should all be aaved from our sin, death, and Hell, and have uninterrupted eternal life with Him.This is His promise: His pardon can be secured for us and we can be forgiven based on the fact that He loves us so much that He took our death penalty so we would not have to die. In His bodily resurrection, He conquered death and if we will hear His loving voice, and open the door to Him, He will come in to us (as He has come into me, I know Jesus Chrst dwells in my by His Holy Spirit which He gives to all who believe on Jesus and receive Him by faith). As He was buried for my sin, He rose free from sin's grip. He placed himself under sin's penalty on my behalf, to set me free from death. I have been buried with Him in the likeness of His death as He took my death, and now I am raised with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. I know I have eternal life now, and when my time has counted down to the finalization of the death this body deserves due to my sin, the death which Jesus who is God took in my place, death has no dominion over me. There is a new me inside this old body, a new me who is born of the Spirt of God, a new man inside this old man who is going to be like Jesus when I see Him face to face. You see? This is the love of God, which surpasses any human love, God died for us when we were still His enemies. He took our place to buy us back from death. God owns me now through the price He paid in His own blood through the terrible sufferings He took for me when they crucified Him. If you or I had been there when they crucified Him, we would have been like everybody else, even His closest friends: they all turned their backs on Him and ran away. Then He rose from the dead and showed Himself to them alive, and they who believed on Him knew they were forgiven and He loved them from the beginnning and still loves them.Is this not supporting proof of the fact that God loves you? What more proof can you ask for?Yes, I'm telling you WHO...not "what" God is, and what He does. He is love personified, and He loves you.My personal relationship with God the Father is far below what Jesus knew of His Father. My understanding of Him is limitied by my faults, but expanded by knowing Him as He reveals Himself through His Son and His Word. His lessons for me are written between the lines throughout the whole sin-struck creation. I wrestle with issues of life the same as you. I get angry when things don't go the way want the same as you. I have passions the same as you. God loves me the same as He loves you. He wants you to trust Him. Jesus is the path. You can know God. Only believe.