All for money

Doing things for money is fine. But doing things only for money is not. And BCCI certainly is doing things which confirm that cricket, people, morals, gratitude, all come second. First comes MONEY.

The board has this time done a thing that doesn't even cost it money. It's not about money in a direct way this time. This is about the fact that those who come in the way of money, whoever they are, whatever they are, whatever they do or have done, for the Cricket or Country or BCCI itself (as team India does not represent India, it represents BCCI actually), they will not be tolerated. Rather they will be done all the bad that can be done.

Well, this is the story of Kapil Dev and Ajit Wadekar. The two former Indian captains that were not invited on the celebration of Anil Kumble's 600 wickets' celebration. Other than Kapil and Ajit, all the captains were invited to the program. But these two were not invited because they are related to ICL, the rebel league.

The interesting fact is that India has won the Cricket World Cup only once and the captain of the World Cup winning team happens to be Kapil Dev. But this fact seems to be easily ignorable to BCCI while compared to his joining the ICL.

Any other reasons than money?

No.

On the other hand, 3 players from the West Indian Cricket team are unable to confirm their commitment to their national Cricket team due to a probable IPL clash. These players include veterans like Chanderpaul.

We shall also see a great deal of interesting things happening in the IPL matches. For example, there will be Ricky Ponting playing under Ganguly, a news that shocked even my 9 yr old niece who hardly has an interest in Cricket. I wonder what SRK thought.

Sometimes I wonder what has money make these people do.

Sometimes I think how much more is remaining.

Indian Money league by BCMC

Actually I was planning to write the title of this blog as 'Indian Money League', but then I felt the title was not that suitable as I thought it would be. Because as soon as I typed Indian Money League, I felt it wasn't just the League, it was Entire BCCI that was working as the 'The Board for Control of Money in Cricket'. Interestingly, something that ICC finds itself unable to do that efficiently as BCCI (or BCMC) does it.

IPL, the Indian Premier League, an idea that suddenly hit BCCI hard when it saw a possibility of cricket slip off its hand. And they left no stone unturned to take all possible revenge from the guys who had dared to threat the Board, as well as ICC. I still doubt whether the BCCI people had an idea that the IPL will be such a grand success making cricket the game of million dollars for even individuals.

Anyways, who cares for that now when the stage is set and people like Vijay Mallya and Shahrukh Khan (and even Preity Zinta) are singing the IPL tune with Mr Lalit Modi, and people like Dhoni and Sachin are going to get more than a Million dollar for playing.

Actually, the question here is not about who cares for the ICL and those-who-were-left-somewhere like Brian Lara and Inzamam-ul-haq, the question is, how much Cricket is involved in this business?

The money spent (or wasted) on getting the players is hardly related to their performances on ground. It is simply proportional to the 'market value' of the cricketer. Otherwise what explains Andrew Symonds getting more than thrice the amount of money than Ricky Ponting.

Another question regarding the Money Leauge is whether it will be able to maintain the standard of Cricket played by country teams. In fact I am unable to imagine yet how Saurav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting, and Shoaib Akhtar be playing together.

Though, I would really really love to see Tendulkar and Jayasuriya batting together, for Mukesh Ambani's Mumbai team. YES. That WILL BE worth watching. Pray for some beautiful innings by these two biggies.

Anyways, there is one thing good in this Indian Premier League. Whoever wins, India will not be losing. :)

When is the match by the way?