Gates: Society will reserve sports for humans rather than robots
“In extreme cases, we're not going to have robots play cricket. You know, that's boring. We'll let, we'll reserve that just for the humans. Even if the robots could be, you know, way, way better, that's not interesting.”
Rosenthal: 20 Million Hardcore Cricket Fans Exist in the US Today
“Hey, there are twenty million hardcore cricket fans in the US today.”
Rosenthal: Cricket commands 93% of sports mindshare in India
“Cricket is the biggest sport in India, nothing else matters, it borders on religion, it has 93% mind share of sports in India.”
BCCI became the largest revenue pool in global cricket by late 2005
“He's created the single biggest pool of money anywhere around the globe in cricket as a sport. I mean, this is Way more money that we're talking about here than England or Australia or the West Indies or Sri Lanka, New Zealand, you know, the other cricket play…”
Rosenthal: Cricket is the world's second-biggest sport with 2.5 billion fans
“Cricket is actually the second biggest sport in the world with two and a half billion fans behind soccer.”
KL Rahul: Multi-sport training develops better athletic ability than early cricket specialization
“There's so many players that you know, I've played with who only played cricket all along. And you can see that like the athletic ability is not as much as someone else who's played multiple sports growing up.”
KL Rahul: Innate hand-eye coordination separates elite athletes from the rest
“Of course, I think so. I think so. Your ability to judge What speed the ball is coming at, and your ability to judge how much it will bounce from a certain area, how much it will move which direction, and your hand-eye coordination, and all of that is like, yo…”
KL Rahul: Family legacy does not matter much in cricket
“At least in cricket, I don't think there's your legacy or where you come from, what your parents did, really matter that much.”
KL Rahul: Niceness has zero bearing on sports team selection versus performance
“No, no, no. That has no, like, at least in sport. ... Nothing. Zero. Zero. ... You can be all of those things, and if you're scoring, scoring hundreds every game, there's nobody to stop you from being picked, and yeah.”
Nithin Kamath: Grassroots Sports Beyond Cricket Are Essential To Scale Indian Fitness
“I think the only way to get that five million number to go up is I don't know if people will, I mean, you need to, people will go for fitness reasons, you know, I mean, I think it has to be sport reason. I think, you know, sport has to be promoted in this coun…”
Screwvala: 90% of global cricket revenues come from India
“90% of the revenues come from cricket in India because nobody else is playing cricket.”
Unacademy Pioneered Repurposing Live IPL Match Footage for Edtech Advertising
“Even, even our film IPL cracking the, you know, cracking the game, for example, nobody was using footage in the manner that we, you know, decided to use. We tied learning to cricket and there was learning in cricket at all times.”
Sityodtong: Cricket will never achieve pan-Asian appeal outside India
“Cricket won't cross geographies in Asia because no one really plays cricket in Asia except for India”