Cricket shit!

Why is our nation so unabashedly dying after this crappy game? Cricket is not a game that a country like ours should follow.
It is a colonial hangover..... from which we dread to get out. Our servile attitude is responsible for its popularity. Just because it was played by our colonial masters the game has gotten roots into our nation.
Let us face it. We are not good at playing cricket. And we doctor pitches at home to win matches. Just because our nation controls the largest cricket market the BCCI acts as if it controls the game..... rather own it.
There is no way we will have so much respect for our "NATIVE" games. Will there be so much hype in the media if there was a match between the same nations, India and Pakistan, of our national sport. Incidentally the hockey is the national sport of both nations..... but it has lost out somewhere.
The point here is that why can't we find self respect and pride in playing the games that our nation has invented and introduced to the world. Let us dominate is sports like Polo, Hockey and Chess. These are real games. And the world has embraced these games pushing our country to the brink in these. It is time to reclaim our lost pride. Not just these games alone but other games as well which have an international level competition.
It is time that we let go of this good for nothing game. We can not continue to try to dominate the game which is played by less than a dozen nations in the world.