Watch: Gautam Gambhir’s epic suggestion to Indian Cricket Board goes viral

Cricket has been the most popular sport in India. Currently, the Indian Cricket Board also is the richest Cricket Board in the world. Even, India has the biggest and rich-vein T20 League in the world known as the Indian T20 League. Despite having Hockey as the national sport, Football, no other sports have gained the same support that Cricket has received. 

Still, India are yet to play in any FIFA World Cup despite having Indian Super League. In multi-national events like Commonwealth Games and the Olympics, India perform decently in some sports. But, no progress has been observed in recent years. Now, the former Indian cricketer, Gautam Gambhir came up with an epic suggestion to the Indian Cricket Board in order to enhance the medal tally in Olympic Sports. He also shared the video on Twitter as the video has gone now viral.

Here is the shared video:

https://twitter.com/GautamGambhir/status/1600084862458687489

“50% of revenue generated out of cricket is sufficient for cricketers” – Gautam Gambhir

Gambhir shared the video on his Twitter account with a caption that read: “My mantra for India to become a super SPORTING power!” While speaking at the TURF2022 & India Sports Awards of FICCI, Gautam Gambhir said that the Indian Cricket Board need to give away 50% of its revenue to other sports. He said: “If you are talking about my way, I think probably BCCI should give away 50% of its revenue to all the other sports, all the other Olympic sports. Because 50% of revenue generated out of cricket is sufficient for cricketers. But the rest of the 50 percent can actually pick up all the other sports.”

“Sports is going to play a massive role in the development of India. There is a need to engage young children in sports and physical activities instead of their electronic devices. Every state should pick up one sport as Odisha has done with Indian hockey. See where hockey has gone today,” he added.

“I know sports ministry is doing a lot and corporates are getting involved, but if each state picks up one sport and completely focuses on that, imagine where our Olympic sports are going to be,” Gautam Gambhir concluded.