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@article{180412,
        author = {Nevaan Bhatnagar},
        title = {WHEN PASSION BECOMES POISON: HOW FANATICISM IS UNDERMINING CRICKET IN INDIA},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {3130-3133},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=180412},
        abstract = {The Secular Country of India follows 2 major religions: Its Movies and Its Cricket. Talking about the latter, we are all aware of the widespread popularity of the Sport of Cricket in our country. Cricket has successfully reached almost every household in the country and is gradually emerging as the Label of identification of our nation, at least among sport followers worldwide. Fans are increasing year by year and Fanaticism is at its peak. But is Cricket following up to its exponential growth? Is it on the right trajectory, as it continues to grow, nurture and develop? The aim of this article is to uncover the negative aspects of such Fanaticism and find out, where we, as fans, or Cricket, as a sport, is going wrong.},
        keywords = {Cricket, Indian Cricket Team, Fans, Fanaticism, IPL, Popularity, Social Media.},
        month = {June},
        }