Cricketers on sale!!
Posted by vivekraut24x7 on February 20, 2008
Every dog has its day!!
This proverb is best suited for Indian Cricketers. There is absolutely nothing wrong in saying that if presented an oppurtunity money will always beat passion. If you ask a cricketer about his ambition, his reply would be that he wants to represent the country but he will never tell you what lurks behind in his mind which is ofcourse a big fat paycheck. If you still don’t agree then ask Anil Kumble why is he in the T20 team when he can’t even find a place in the 50 over game. He is not doing any charity work either. The fact is Anil Kumble is not there for playing cricket. His job is to pull crowd inside the stadium and pull money outside. IPL (Indian Premier League) has given aging players a last chance to hoard as much money as they can and secure their future. Even foreign players have set their eyes and don’t want to miss the bus. It doesn’t matter even if their price tag doesn’t show a amount greater than that of local heroes. Ricky Ponting would be in great dilemma and must be scratching his head and trying to draw a logic to understand
1. Why teammate Andrew Symonds is getting thrice as much he is getting?
2. Whether he should buy the argument that even Manoj Tiwari who has not played even a single one-dayer, forget about cementing a place in the national side, is getting much more than him.
3. What will happen to his captaincy skills with which he has led his nation team to win 2 world cup titles? Will Sourav Ganguly come to him for suggestions during any of those IPL matches?
Michael Hussey must be laughing at himself for not finding anyone who considers a man with highest average in 50 over game and second highest in Tests (after Bradman) worthy enough to bid for. If he is not then atleast his brother David Hussey must be because ironically, even he is wearing a price tag of 2.5 crores INR. Piyush Chawla will probably never beat Warne’s charisma on the field but he has already beaten him up in the bidding game by getting signed a paycheck of whopping 2.6 crores. My sympathies are with the legendry Mc Grath, the athletic wicket-keeper Tatenda Taibu and the finisher Ramnaresh Sarwan. They don’t deserve to be in the reserved pool but they should accept the fact that it’s Indian premier league and it’s all about doing business in the name of cricket.
Such things can happen only in India and such things can happen only for crazy people which India was never short of.
February 21, 2008 at 10:04 am
[...] Vivek Raut writes, Every dog has its day!! This proverb is best suited for Indian Cricketers. There is absolutely nothing wrong in saying that if presented an oppurtunity money will always beat passion. If you ask a cricketer about his ambition, his reply would be that he wants to represent the country but he will never tell you what lurks behind in his mind which is ofcourse a big fat paycheck. If you still don’t agree then ask Anil Kumble why is he in the T20 team when he can’t even find a place in the 50 over game. He is not doing any charity work either. The fact is Anil Kumble is not there for playing cricket. His job is to pull crowd inside the stadium and pull money outside. IPL (Indian Premier League) has given aging players a last chance to hoard as much money as they can and secure their future. Even foreign players have set their eyes and don’t want to miss the bus. It doesn’t matter even if their price tag doesn’t show a amount greater than that of local heroes. [...]
February 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
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