A hobby which can lead to dream job is sports and in sports our passion is CRICKET….The way India and world is living cricket passionately… the same passion is follows dream job. It is everybody’s favourite game and all can play it full day with their capacity. It is everybody’s dream that he/she wants to be a cricketer and play for their country. Everybody think that the best part of cricket is batting but ultimately one has to be specialized in batting with feilding. But now a days fitness is more important criteria to be in a long run. There are many cricketers who has motivated and inspired young generation to follow the dream and The best inspiration for playing cricket is the famous cricketers Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MSD) better known as Captain COOL . He is among now a adays India’s most popular wicket keeper batsman most successful Indian captain who has won all three format trophy organised by ICC ( Innagural T20 World cup’2007, 50 over World cup’2011 and Champions Trophy’2013). He is the only Captain who hails this record. If we talk about wicket keeping record, he has surpasses Australia’s Adam Gilchrist as a best wicketkeeper batsman.It is a dream of every single Indian to play cricket with them one day and .It is the favourite hobby of most of the children in the world and everyone says that will never leave playing cricket in the future also.
- How can it be pursued as a career:
As everybody says that he/she wants to be a cricketer for which they must play cricket and do very much hard work. As well as being a cricketer is not only a job to earn money, it is a big responsibility to play cricket if representing a city, state or the whole country. The playing 11 of our country India has always a big responsibility to play cricket and win for the country. The best batsmen, the best bowler and the best fielders are selected from the cricketers of different states of the country. The cricketers selected to play cricket for the country are the best and feel very proud of themselves and everyone want to be one them a day and it is the biggest dream for cricket lovers.
- Professional Courses to become a Cricketer:
In order to become a cricketer we need to have lot of experience to play cricket for which we need to join a cricket club and gain experience. The club will select the best players for club matches and the best can be selected for city matches also. Then if the coaches like your performances in these games then they could select you for more matches and can also select for the matches between different states of the particular country. And if also well performed in the matches between states you might be selected for the international matches between different countries of the world. And if you start playing cricket from higher level cricket clubs and if they like your performance then you will be able to play higher level matches soon.
- Institutes for being a cricketer:
The academy in which all are trained more perfectly for playing cricket by more experienced coaches or by the professional cricketers are called institutes. There are many cricketing institutes throughout the world as well as in our own country India there are many cricketing institutes. Some of them are mentioned here:
>Karnataka Institute of Cricket
>West Delhi Cricket Academy
>Harbhajan Singh Institute of Cricket
>Abhimanyu Cricket Academy
>Cricket Academy of Specialisation
>Virender Sehwag Cricket Academy (Opening Soon)
>Female Cricket Academy (Opening Soon)
>MS Dhoni Cricket Academy
>GS Harry Cricket Academy
>Cricket Academy of Pathans
- Rewards after winning the match/tournament:
There are trophies,medals and cash prizes for winning team. There are no degrees for playing cricket. The main trophy is the tournament trophy for which all the teams compete with each other. There are many trophies of different tournament from different level. Some of the trophy names are mentioned here:
>ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy
>T20 World Cup Trophy
>ICC Champions Trophy
>Champions League Twenty20 Trophy
>Ashes Series Trophy
>Indian Premier League Trophy
>Border- Gavaskar Trophy
>NatWest Series Trophy
>Commonwealth Bank Series Trophy
>Asia Cup
>Irani Cup
>Ranji Trophy
>Duleep Trophy
>Vijay Hazare Trophy
>Deodhar Trophy
>Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
- Job Prospects:
If you are a good sportsman so Goverments also offers jobs through sports quota and many players got selected in that cataogory and among them Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh is best example as they have been offered jobs because of their play.
You can only play cricket till a particular age and after it you need to get retired and after that new young players are added to the team. After retirement you can join the cricket the cricket department in which you can do work like:
>Sports Coach (If you are very well experienced)
>Fitness Instructor
>Sports Development Officer
>Commentary
Some jobs are there for doctors,like:
>Sports Physiotherapist
>Sports Scientist
