cricket. is it a waste of time or just another good sport

Cricket is not a popular sports in my country. However, I can't say that this sports is a wasting time game. After all, there are still many crickets in some countries like India. They must have some reasons to like this game. If you say this game takes a long time, how about marathon? It also takes a whole day

Playing cricket is never a waste of time, but watching may be a wastage. You can watch important matches in which top players from top nations play, because you can learn cricket watching them by closely following the commentary.

I am more leaning towards your second opinion. It does take a very long time but I think for the people who truly enjoy cricket would be over the moon for it. They like and want to support their team and it can be a good chance to cheer them on with you family and friends. So I think it's an event for people to be brought together. And hopefully brought together in a friendly way. I get extremely disappointed when I hear riots that break out just because people don't agree on the same team. Which is just silly. It should all literally be fun and games. And just like you said, a distraction. If people love cricket, I think they would love to watch it when they have time off work or to distract their minds if something isn't going to well in life. I personally prefer other sports to watch but it is still a cool sport.