Cricketers Under Corporate Hammer

My Grand Father was born in a wrong Generation. He was getting a pension of Rs 75 per month till mid 90s. He has privilege of playing first Ranji trophy match way back in 1936. In those days it playing cricket is honorary players were not paid for Ranji trophy matches. Now a player gets 1 lakh per Ranji trophy match.

Once Bishen signh bedi told that In 1956 when we beat New Zealand the match was over in 4days they were paid Rs 50 as daily allowance. All the players were paid for only 4 days. When one of player asked the Cricket officials for the 5th day allowance the reply was “why did you finish the match in 4 days”. Last week we saw historic auctioning of the cricketers for IPL in Mumbai. Probably this will be the first time that a Human beings were auctioned with full support of Media and public.

Now the BCCI has opened the doors for the corporates to fund and run the teams. This is not new in there are lot of corporates were supporting the game for more than 40 years like Sanmar, India cements, SBI, MRF, TVS to name a few they had interest to promote the game. This time people Ambanis, Mallays have entered the fray. The main difference is to build the brand and make profits.

BCCI has given the rights to corporate to run the cricket, gate collections ,share in the T.V rights I wonder if every things was given the so called franchisee of the team what for the cricket associations are still exists. Corporatastion has started with 20 : 20 games know one whose other formats will also move in to this category

The main aim of IPL is to push ICL to dust everybody knows that ICL wont succeed this was seen during the inaugural tournament by the poor response ICL got. So please see the game the as game do not corpotise by selling the players and spoiling the game and young cricketers with Money. They were reports that Under 19 cricketers were being signed for lakhs by the franchisee that too during Under 19 World cup which is in progress.

The game of Cricket started by English men , mastered by Aussies, sold by Indians.

Baised Media?

How yesterday i was surprised to see a article in self claimed "India's national newspaper" on a caption "Madurai deckedup to celebrate ........'s birthday". I donot understand the motive to write a article on a person's birthday celebrations. This clearly shows that the Newspaper wants to please somebody. Is this the true journalism? Clearly a Newspaper with over 100 years can do a article like this donot blame the new entrants they all wanted to survive.

Public beware

India’s Down in Down Under

Australians clearly dominated the first test in Melbourne were we have lost the test with huge margin. The second test in Sydney were we have dominated the most part of the match expect fourth day. The final day was truly great because both the teams fought very hard, Australians went over board making it worst ever behavior by the world champions. This shows they cannot digest when they are down and made to fight to for the survival.

Arrogance to the core by the Australians led by from the front by none other than Ricky Ponting whose is running a small bad patch after extra ordinary 4 years of test cricket. India did not able play out 72 overs or two sessions even though they had two very poor decisions by the umpires, but expect Anil Kumble no other batsman showed the grit and determination in fighting it out with the opposition.

Rahul and Sourav were playing well they were given out by poor umpiring but what about Jaffer, Laxman, Tendulkar, Yuvaraj and Dhoni they all just thrown there wickets when team needs them to play for draw. Test Cricket is all about playing out sessions especially in the fourth innings. A player could have scored triple hundred in first innings put the team sore beyond 500,but if we could last for one session in second innings he could end up in losing side this best illustrated by Lara during Sri Lankan series were he scored more than 500 runs in three test but his team lost all the three test.

We need really rethink on the composition of the team rather than disturbed by the things (umpiring decisions) which you have no control over it. Apart from Rahul we have only stroke makers in team we need to have one more player who can play out sessions in Test cricket. Last tour we had Akash Chopra and Rahul to do but this time we have only one player.

The selection committee and team management needs to rethink on the composition of the team before they pick players for the tour, here the coach plays a vital role unfortunately we don’t have one at present to plan for the tour.