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Global Trends in Sports Industry.

I feel that Social Media plays an important role in a field especially like sports where businesses treat their fans as ”god” and it is the only way by which consumers can interact with the business or the sport. The recent trend in the sports industry has been the rise of social media engagements with newer technology and changing consumer habits has led to more opportunity and uncertaint satisfy consumer’s needs and wants. The biggest question today is that whether the media rights will still prevail in spite of fall in traditional TV business. In developed markets, pay-television has been the engine of media revenue growth for two decades or more. Facebook and Amazon made huge strides into sports content in 2017 by making serious content based videos. But it’s clear that we are a way off that scenario. Facebook and Amazon are still experimenting and searching for a business model that have not yet committed for serious cash to sports. And so far there is no model in sight th

India Retains Border Gavaskar Trophy After 71 Years of Wait in Australia.

Virat Kohli's men are rising  from toe to head as the series goes on the way. It all started way back in 2014 at the Adelaide Test when Ms Dhoni had decided to put a full stop to his test career. Since then Virat Kohli has taken up this challenge and lead the team to overseas series wins over West Indies, Sri Lanka and now the recent team to be beaten at home is Australia which came after decade long 71 years. The last victory came at 1948 series when India had won their first series against Australia. This Indian Team has one of the best pace bowling battery with the trio of Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma then ever before. The Indian team had always struggled to get their lines and length correct and to maintain that discipline throughout the innings which allowed the batsmen to score and especially the tail has always wagged against India in recent times.  It was Philander and Rabada for SA and Sam Curran for England. With series losses against South Afr

Development of Sports Skills

According to my opinion sports skills are acquired in a very progressive sequence.  Not every child will acquire each and every skill as they have to go tremendous training. Supervised, Unstructured and exploratory activities in a safe environment are the way to go. Once children are a few years old, hints of sports skills start to develop and take shape.The preparation process for sports readiness begins. To be acquired successfully, sports skills involve a complex interaction between movement, sight and thought. Motor skills (movement) requires the right visual processing to allow the correct movement response. These skills also require appropriate brain processing and thought patterns so that the response will be meaningful and effective.  Motor skills are very important in the field of sports and one has to be strong in order to be successful in the field of sports.  In cricket, these skills are been given a great amount of importance if a player wants to excel in the