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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 of

1.How to compensate the players better.
2.How to provide better inputs to fooster the sport
3.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! ( Posted: Saturday , February 23, 2008 at 12:43 )       
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. ( Posted: Saturday , February 23, 2008 at 01:26 )       
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. ( Posted: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 23:42 )       
varun ipl will surelly improve the compition and standard of the 20twenty format of cricket. ( Posted: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 17:44 )       
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. ( Posted: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 13:45 )       
jumroo I see most of these journalists are upset with the money...

JEALOUSY.... :-)

The players deserve everything they get for the simple reason that
if they don''t get it , the revenue will go to the team owners or the
BCCI...

Having paid the players and BCCI, it is the responsibility of the teams
to make the money. We as spectators (I think only indians) should enjoy
it (while it lasts)...

And support ICL too...

Jumroo ( Posted: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 10:13 )       
nachi Guys

Why is money not good for the cricketers? Isn''t money the ideal motivator for them to perform well. These guys stop performing badly in the international matches then either their contracts will not be renewed or their value will come down. This is free market economy. VIRGO who said that quality of basket ball in U.S is declinig ? They lost in olympics because all their star players sat out. So please !!!! ( Posted: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 00:54 )       
more Emmveeyem If a Rooney, an young soccer star can get so much money and yet remain in lime light, why not the Indian Cricket novices? Its all our mental block in accepting the realities and sail with the changing times. ( Posted: Thursday , February 21, 2008 at 22:57 )       
Kristy You haven''t still got used to the idea of free markets and their power to sort things out. Quality of the sport will get better, maybe in the first few years there are some excesses but over time these will get sorted out and will produce better quality cricket for spectators by better cricketers. ( Posted: Thursday , February 21, 2008 at 19:24 )       
PT If big money is good for you and me my friend then it is good for players too. Why grudge them the money they make for themselves when we aspire to make more money all the time.

There have been instances of young ranji players committing suicides due to their financial situations. IPL has made room for more players than just the ones who fit the national team to earn a living out of cricket.

Its true Hockey and soccer players don''t enjoy such luxuries, but who is to blame for it? We need to ask ourselves..did we go to Shivaji stadium to watch the last hockey match there? Did we not rush to Firoze Shah Kotla to get to see the last ODI played there? It is not the govt which sanctions disproportionate amount of money to BCCI. It is the cricketers who generate this money for it.

As for the fear of the game of cricket going for a radical change, even we have changed a lot the way we walk, talk and appear compared to the pre-historic man. Heridity and variation applies to everything, man and his sports! ( Posted: Thursday , February 21, 2008 at 17:16 )       
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