5 reasons gambling in cricket should be legal in India

#5 Gambling is not going away

Gambling is here to stay

Gambling has been around ever since the Pandavas threw dice, perhaps longer. Its status as legal/illegal will neither curtail nor extinguish it. What making it legal will do is help us to regulate it. Gambling is an immensely lucrative industry, one which is running rampant in India. The half hearted efforts of making it illegal have mostly fallen flat.

Cricket is perhaps the best suited sport to gamble around, with intervals in action and multiple variables interacting with each other. The sport is an addiction and so is gambling. An industry catering to addiction has unlimited demand. This demand is resulting in gambling having a strong foothold in the community, one which isn't being eradicated anytime soon. Perhaps we ought to embrace it.