Is big money good for young players?
Ensuring more wealth and popularizing the snazzy Twenty20 format are no doubt important in this era, but the challenge for cricket administrators is to ensure that the game is not diluted hereon.
Make money your God and it is very likely to plague you like the devil. By converting the shortest and newest version of the game into the focal point with little restrictions on nationalities and age, chutzpah has been added at the risk of making it the main driver of cricket.
There is no doubt that T20 promises a thrill every minute and is the only form that promises to spread the game further in a competitive world, but it can not expect to add to the skills of players. It is a universally acknowledged fact that adapting to a shorter version of the game is far easier and that longer formats help form the base.
The kind of money that young Indian players will get in the IPL was unheard of before. Ishant Sharma, R.P. Singh, Manoj Tiwari and the lot will pile up the cash, but will do little to enhance their skills as good all-round players. Ishant, who was playing school cricket just a couple of seasons back, has been calculated to get as much as Rupees one lakh per legitimate delivery in the IPL. Still at the learning stage, will he become a better bowler because of that?
Cricket Boards will have to be wary of exposing promising players to this form, or at least ensure a better coaching and recovery system in a cramped international schedule. A team like India should ideally identify some players for this game while handling their Test prospects with kid gloves.
Australian players like Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson shunned the IPL because they wanted to concentrate on the more traditional forms and become better players. In contrast, the Indian media and administrators keep harping on the money that the IPL is promising players, not realising that most young players who went under the hammer were Indians.
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Posted : By Vasudevan
Cricketeers making money is good.However,the likes of kapil,sunny,sachin,dravid,sourav,kumble and many others have made a significnat contribution to the nation.In a way,through cricket ,these stalwarts ,have communicated and established the fact that India is not a push over country and we will not remain in the shadows of other nations.No more will we be dimunitive and meek.They have brought pride to the nation.This is a critical aspect.The BCCI has enough funds to ensure that players are very well paid and taken care of.The BCCI is also making huge money.In addition the BCCI must enhance its role to earning respect for India.What is happening at IPL leaves a bad taste.Players being auctioned somehow reflects a vulgar display of wealth and can shift the focus to money rather than the pride of playing for the country.In addition,internal rivalry arising out of different price tags may arise and this may impact the team effort.BCCI needs to rethink in terms of1.How to compensate the players better.2.How to provide better inputs to fooster the sport3.How to ensure that the pride of playing for the country and cricket as a vehicle to make the nation hold its head high, IS NOT DILUTED and UP FOR SALE!
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Posted : By saif aly
Dileep Premachandran an associate editor at Cricinfo wrote: "On Wednesday, cricket entered that salary stratosphere, with the sort of rewards that former Indian cricketers who earned little over $6 for a Test match back in the 60s wouldn''t have dared dream of." Imagine how cricketers of the 60s era like Abid Ali, Chandrashekar, Engineer, and Venkat feel when they see today''s cricketers earning 6 digit salary in India. Only just recently did I read and article about former India test crickets (I cannot recall his name now) who passed away - he died in poverty. Infact he left nothing for his family. Is this the way BCCI (and for that matter India) treats its cricketing legends? The least the BCCI can do for these legends is to locate every former test cricketers - ones who represented India - and and see if they any kind of financial assistance and if they do, then to at least try to help them financially. This will be at least vindicate them and provide a good gesture towards yester years cricketers.
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Posted : By LVISS
The few people who play other games will like to learn to play cricket in the hope that they can earn a lot thro cricket.A few years hence the situation may not be the same .It is only the beginning of a new chapter in cricket. We will have to wait and see how things develop.
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Posted : By varun
ipl will surelly improve the compition and standard of the 20twenty format of cricket.
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Posted : By tapas
is sovrav , sachin can be purchased at sabji mandi.what a brain game of lalit modi to enchash them and go to his own bank. we are all puppets to them creating wealth for themselves.
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