How much ever I tried to ignore cricket and India's loss, I can't help feeling depressed when I see this picture of the ball crashing into the greatest batsman's wickets. He might not play another world cup match again. All the hard work put by these players and the hopes of one billion cricket lovers are blown away along with those 3 sticks. :(
I pray to god that India lose the match tomorrow with SL. May be that would make cricket crazy India less crazy about cricket and balance the sport equation.
I think Cricket is Killing Indian Sport. You cannot grow other trees under a Banyan Tree. (jai bolo sdmbbs ki)
From Wiki,
The global media rights for international cricket to be held in India between March 2006 and March 2010 were awarded to production house Nimbus for a mind-boggling sum of US$612 Million. [1]. The rights to being the official kit sponsor for the duration of 5 years(1st January 2006 to 31st December,2010) were awarded to Nike for US$43 Million [2]. While Air Sahara earned the privilege of being the official Indian cricket team sponsor for a period of 4 years by shelling out US$70 Million [3]. The media rights for 25 neutral venue one-day matches to be played over the next 5 years were awarded to Zee Telefilms for US$219.15 Million [4]. Business Standard [5] reports that it will get another Rs 2,000 crore ($450 million) from the sale of other rights, including hotel, travel and ground sponsorship.
This is the money generated by the Indian cricket team (16 people)for BCCI (Imagine the worth of economy surrounding Indian Cricket). SO much money is being spent on so few people. It's unfair. I'd rather like more money to be pumped into the domestic cricket to make them interesting, high quality and passionate like all the American sports. BCCI should learn from NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB. Investing billions on 11 players fortune without any kind of accountability is ridiculous
National team is important. But what is the ultimate goal? what is the measure for the success of a sport? Why should winning at international venues and tournaments matter? The 20Th best player of the most watched sport with crores of rupees in a 1 billion country is a poor no name.
That is only one part of the story.
India cricket is not only eclipsing all other sports, but in effect making the indian youth lazy and lacking in fitness. The nature of the game is that, you can play the game for hours with out getting tired and much physical activity. compare that with the fitness required by soccer or basket ball or tennis, you got to be really fit and strong. We had players at the international level with pot bellies. India Media is so strong now, they can make anything happen. Look at the music industry now. They can build Indian sports from ground up. But they resort for easy money by sensationalizing what 11 players do. Take the money away from the unaccountable unprofessional BCCI and spread it across to the other sports and players.
It's chicken and egg problem. Indian Team should be out of the world cup and people spend money on other sports. Why would the sponsors spend money on something else, because people wouldn't sit idle. They watch something else if cricket is not interesting.
Other sports need players like Sania Mirza, who makes a better role model for she broke into the extremely competitive professionals sports arena, with no support from the system and continues to believe in herself with a go get it attitude. What Anand did to chess for India, she will probably do it for Tennis if she breaks into top10.
Hope the situation changes in the future and India have a great future in many more sports.
Very Very Interesting chart.. It'll be interesting to see district wise split up.
Rayalaseema is getting more than their fair share and I bet it is all getting into the pockets of the contracters cum factionists with little benefit to the people. These are 2006 figures.
All figures in CRORES :
| area | income | expenditure | summary |
| rayalaseema | 3588 | 10126 | 6500 loss |
| Telangana (without HYD) | 22318 | 23802 | 1500 loss |
| andhra | 13682 | 15668 | 1900 loss |
| Hyderabad | 32433 | 3257 | 29000 profit |
Samsung update the Q1 UMPC. And seems to be a great improvement interms allround.
I am all for a new formfactor that goes inbetween the mobile/pda and laptops. And it does more than any laptop can do in an extremely protable form factor. It can be just an mp3 player or a full fledged PMP, a Navigation system, Just plain web browsing and messaging system, a book reader, a notebook replacement. It's great not just for the road warriors or business travellers, its extremely useful to even the daily commuters who travel by publich transportation in big cities, or even at school for students and the possibilities are endless.
This is a dream convergence device. Only downside and the most important downside is the price $1300 to $2000. OOPS!!
But I'd think this form factor wouldn't make it big for atleast 4-5 years unless Apple comes up with Newton II.
Viacom sued youtube for hosting its copyrighted material on the web and not doing enough to protect the copyrighted material. They are pressing for $1 billion for the 1.5 billion hits that Viacom content had on the youtube. Fair Enough.
I wouldn't have supported Viacom, but for the precedence of napster and the google's self righteous smugness in claiming the 'Don't be Evil' as their motto. How much ever the consumer is benefited and what ever be the outcome of the current debates on the ethics of piracy, companies like youtube need to be accounted for. If napster and kazaa had to go, youtube also must go. I see no difference in the business model.
You cannot say 'don't be evil' and then host all the copyrighted content, scan all the copyrighted books without taking the permission of the owners. Taking down the content.. when the owner requests, is not good enough. You cannot expect the owners to keep a watch on all the distribution channels to see where they are being ripped off. If making it easy for the users to find content is your selfless goal, you can redirect the users to the owner websites. If you can prevent porn to appear on the youtube, you likely can prevent the copyrighted stuff to show up too.
Or build business like 'joost' after making contracts with the content providers first. Not the other way round, use them to build the market and then use the might to force them in to submission.
Or, just say we're 'Evil' and we can rest the case.
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