Saturday, April 28, 2007
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9:30 PM
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The excruciatingly long and disastrous world cup has come to an end, finally. It has been disastrous on many fronts.
First, the sad demise of Bob Woolmer and the whole murder angle came as a huge shock to everyone in world cricket.
Then there was the world cup itself. It had the makings of a unique tournament with as many as 5 countries coming together to host the world cup and the local people adding their Carribean flavor to the entire thing. ICC like always played the spoilsport. The crowds were low, the atmosphere was missing. It took the excitement out of it.
And finally, when the tournament came to a close yesterday, the Australians were crowned the world champions for the third time in a row, and deservedly so. They were the best side in the tournament by a country mile. But that goes to show that no team in world cricket today can match Australia on their day, and thats not a good thing for cricket.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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7:12 AM
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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6:44 AM
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Sunday, April 8, 2007
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2:45 AM
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BCCI may be the richest cricketing body in the world, but that does not say anything about the professionalism with which its run or rather the lack of it. So who runs BCCI? One quick look at the top names in the board and you will realize that its run by senile people, some of whom happen to be politicians (what a surprise!) and others, bureaucrats. People with hardly any understanding of the game.
And after the recent world cup debacle it was but natural to expect the media and the public to overreact. Which they did in true 'Indian style'. BCCI, partly responsible for the world cup disaster quickly washed their hands off it, putting the blame squarely on the players. Now to be seen as being concerned about the state of Indian cricket, they said, quoting Mr.Pawar, president of the BCCI "we will take some tough decisions". All they wanted to do was to be seen to be taking the right decisions and appease the public. This what politicians do best.
Linking the performance of the players to the endorsements is absurd and ridiculous. Didn't Michael Jordan make millions ? Tiger Woods...Roger Federer...Aren't these guys raking in millions through endorsements? It doesn't seem to have affected their game. So why should it affect the cricketers. Media and the public screamed that cricketers are doing to many ads and its affecting their game. BCCI agreed and obliged, and decided to scrap all contracts and put a limit on the endorsements. For a majority of the people it seems that the cause of the world cup performance was the ads. How silly is that? Relation between cause and effect is totally misplaced here. Cause lies somewhere else. It lies within the system, within BCCI. By denying the players the right to earn money, and by trying to appease the media and the public, the BCCI has fooled the entire country by this hogwash.
Board has to realize that the 3000 crores that they get in revenue is because of the players. On one hand your trying to squeeze all that money out using the cricketers on the pretext of helping cricket in India and on the other hand you want to restrict the same cricketers from making extra money. If they want players to be paid on the basis of performance, then what about the performance of the board officials? Are they not responsible and equally answerable to the fans? By conveniently making the players as scapegoats in this entire fiasco BCCI has once again done what it has been doing for ages, fool the entire nation.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
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9:49 AM
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Excerpt from Greg Chappell's interview to TOI.
When you came in Virender Sehwag was struggling. He is struggling even now?
The way he loads his bat he reminds me of a golfer and as his game is reliant on fantastic hand-eye coordination, it will be quite futile to teach him technique at this stage of his career. It's best for him to clear the cobwebs, if any, in his mind and look to bat through 30-40 overs. Against Sri Lanka, he was looking good till he became over adventurous.
Flashing across the TV screen on all news channels as 'breaking news' : Greg to TOI- It's futile to teach sehwag how to bat.
Now that's quoting out of context. The media takes creative liberty in quoting people. And then they get reactions from former cricketers to the supposed comment. It all then snow balls into a major controversy and the media feeds on it.
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