Describe a sport which is popular in your country.
You should say:
- what sport it is
- if it is well developed in your country
- how it is played
and explain why you think it is a popular sport in your country.
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Not sure about my fellow other Australian citizens, but, I can’t really think of any other game except “cricket” as popular as any other sports. Sometimes, I even think that this glamorous game and winning in it is in our blood, no matter which country the Australian team is playing against.
Anyway, a little about the Australian cricket history should be told here for the reference of cricket lovers around the world except of course most of us already know that the cricket is being played in Australia for more than 215 years. But, the height of the popularity of this sport was achieved after starting ashes series with England in 1884. In fact, after that ashes series, Australia cricket team became a cricketing force to reckon with all over the world. Since then, Australia has played some extraordinary crickets, that has helped them defeat all cricketing nations one after another, by winning world test championship, as well as becoming the world champion in limited versions cricket like one day international and T-20 international (ICC trophy championship).
In fact, Australia has one of the best, if not the best, national cricket team in the worlds with very a sophisticated cricket infrastructure which helps them excel as a top-class professional cricketer.
Anyway, cricket is played between two teams, both consisting of 11 players each, in a large stadium, in which, both teams get to do batting and bowling in turn. Essentially, it is a game of scoring runs, and the team, making the greater number of runs, wins the match.
Anyway, Cricket is a popular sport in Australia, because, frankly speaking, we are really great at it. Besides, According to National Cricket Census for Australia, cricket is Australia's current number one participation sport after record numbers picked up a bat and ball in 2015-16. After crunching the numbers, Cricket Australia unveiled the record-breaking results this year that suggests a record 1,311,184 people played cricket across Australia in 2015-16, an 8.5 per cent increase on 2014-15 – placing cricket at number 1 as the current top participation sport in Australia.
