Friday, April 8, 2011

Commercialization in Indian Cricket


2nd April, 2011, the date has already written with the golden letters in the history of cricket. India won the world cup cricket for the second time, after 28 years. Throughout this time, India reached the final in 2003 world cup cricket under the leadership of Sourav Ganguly. But Australia defeated us. But this time Sri Lanka was defeated by the Dhoni’s men in blue. This time we had a good team also, experienced batsman like Sachin, Sehwag, Dhoni, Ganbhir, & Yuvraj; & bowlers like Zaheer, Munaf, Nehra, Harbhajan. The main center of attraction were the new-commers also, like Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, & Piyush Chawla. They also performed well. But the most of the credit goes to Gary Kirsten, who trained all the boys’ day & night.

All the Indians are happy with the performance of the team in world cup, but from today itself (8th April, 2011) the IPL 4 is starting. My question is that, how many people are interested in IPL 4. The world cup just got over; people are running through this feeling of bringing the world cup home & now just after 6 days of final match, IPL 4 is knocking at the doorsteps. I would like to say that now in IPL its totally commercialization is driving the whole game. Mukesh Ambani & Neeta Ambani are the owners of Mumbai Indians, Preity Zinta is of Punjab Kings XI, Shipla Shetty & Raj Kundra is of Rajasthan Royals, Shahrukh Khan is of Kolkata Knight Riders, Sahara India Parivar is of Kochi, etc. Isn’t it that, the cricketers are running after the money. In this IPL 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the most costly player who is leading the Chennai Super Kings.

Now this tournament will also continue throughout 1 & half month, then again India has other series to play. If the team will be engaged to play all these matches then, when will they get rest? In the nest series, if the performance of India will be low then we will shout against the team & will say that team’s performance is bad. But the BCCI should understand that the cricketers are human beings, they should also get rest, and otherwise their performance level will go down, they will be tired. When all the Indian cricketers are playing for the provincial teams, the audiences get confused that to which they will support. Because they think that, my favoruite cricketer is Sachin, then I’ll support Mumbai Indians, if somebody’s favoruite cricketer is Yuvraj, they he will support Punjab King’s XI. Here don’t come out the nationality; it gives rise to the provinciality.

Till date, I didn’t understand the importance of the cheer girls’ during the matches. All these issues, points out the only problem, “COMMERCIALIZATION IN INDIAN CRICKET”. Now the audiences should realize that how should they perceive the IPL 4.

3 comments:

  1. we one the world cup the most precious tournament of cricket our players need rest but se BCCI the governing body of cricket what has he given our players in return IPL-4. there are lost of tours which indian team had to follow as per ICC planed schedule. Half of our team is struggling with the fitness problem but BCCI is not concerned with it. They want money and the r getting it and the sport ministry in india is nothing no body cares what players want. From every tour BCCI ask players if they want rest they can take their name back because he knows no one will do it due top very healthy competitions among players but BCCI had made mandatory for players to ply in IPL because its not a competition it is game of money. Therefore we can even say that for BCCI money is more important than our WORLD CUP WINNER HEROES.

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  2. yup dats true.infact dats d reason why cricketers die to play in IPL.the owners r providing money.that's all they want. in this way BCCI became the richest cricket board of the world.more than 300 crores of rupees they have in their pocket.

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  3. Lol... very kiddish writing...

    Anyways, logon ne World Cup ke time satta laga chuke hai.. ab unke paas aur paise nhi hai ki IPL me bhi lagaaye... thts why this time, IPL4 is not gettin popularity.

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