http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/nzvind2009/content/story/392501.html
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/nzvind2009/content/story/392882.html
Wow!! I can't believe the players are being denied their careers because they play for ICL. They are not doing drugs, they are just playing cricket. What gives BCCI/ ICC or other cricket boards any right to dictate what players can and should do??
This is Ridiculous with a CAPITAL 'R'.
My last post on Indian debacle at the Cricket World Cup. I have the same question that always come to mind looking at the people who comment on the Cricket team. People who talk about the field placement or the batting order, never even played at the school level. They do not know the pressure in the game, even when playing for a small team. Analyzing is not bad, blaming is. And people who complain about the others failures are not even great achievers in what they do. Forget about achievements or success. They should just ask themselves if they are doing justice to the work they do for which they are getting paid for. These are the same people who watch 'Cricket', by skipping the work. There is nothing wrong in 'failure', but it is criminal to bad mouth the failed, when you are not honest to your duties. Panchjanya editor seems to have conveyed the same in a better way.
Sangh asks those who frown at them to introspect on whether they themselves have won every match in their life. An editorial in the latest issue of the weekly Panchjanya has ridiculed the “childish” and obsessive way people in the country make cricket a life-and-death issue, dragging the 11 players of the team from heroes to zeroes in a trice and even committing suicide over losing a game. “Is losing so bad...Is the country hanging on the performance of a team of 11?” the RSS has asked, exhorting those who “expect them to always win to look within and see whether they themselves have always been successful”. Also, to ask themselves whether every time they failed, was it willfully to aid some kind of betting scheme, as the cricket team is accused of doing in the wake of every loss.
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.
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