20/20 cricket could takeover football

Originally posted by cpr87

   I found this
article from the Bleachers Report website Soccer no1 in 226 countries
but 20/20 cricket can conquer all(by Joe Kidwell member) Heres just a one part

Here is a list of countries where soccer is not No. 1:

Baseball is No. 1 in eight different countries which include the
Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Nicaragua,
Northern Marianas, Taiwan.

Cricket is No. 1 in eight countries. British Guyana, Antigua and
Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
and Australia.

Rugby is No 1 in five countries, which include Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Wales.

Basketball is No. 1 in five countries: the Philippines, Lithuania, Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands, and the Bahamas.

Following behind is Ice Hockey, which is No. 1 in four countries including Canada, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia.

The other sports are all tied with being No. 1 in only one country.
Archery: Bhutan; Wrestling: Mongolia; AFL: Nauru; and Gaelic Football:
Ireland Republic.

And of course American football only in the United States.

Out of the 261 independent nations and dependencies, the rest of
the 226 independent nations/ dependencies in the world, is where soccer
is No. 1

HOWEVER

20/20 cricket is likely to change the status of football. If the
new version develops as many commentators expect, there will be a
proliferation of domestic leagues around the world, and cricket may end
up being the most powerful sport on the planet. 20/20 cricket is the
first version of cricket that is suitable to a home and away format run
along the lines of a football competition. A typical game starts at
5.30pm and is over by 8pm. Fans could watch the game after work, or as
part of their weekly routine.

Like baseball in America, 20/20 is also a version of sport that can
be played more than once a week. Potentially, a team in a domestic
20/20 cricket league could play 3 to 4 times a week, and pull annual
crowds three times more than that of the football codes.

At present, Australia has been relatively inactive on the 20/20
front. It is in India and the West Indies where most of the revolutions
are going on. In the West Indies, an American, Alan Stanford, has seen
the potential 20/20 to form a bridge between South and North America.
With more than 20 countries involved, Stanford's 20/20 tournament is
numerically the largest tournament in the Americas. Admittedly, the
largest countries of the region, such as Brazil and the United States,
are not represented. However, teams could be contrived relatively
simply and if so, both would be fertile markets for television. If so,
a small sport could grow in a very rapid pace.