Its not ICL or BCCI. Its about cricket at its best. I am not sure if ICL would be able to rope in players who are still part of their National Squads. Retired Greats or players not part of National Squad would be the ones featuring in ICL. It will be just a Masala Cricket, nothing else. I am pretty sure it will not work as an alternative to Cricket governed by ICC. I know people are not happy with the way BCCI functions but ICL as mainstream cricket..It may not happen ever.
You could use the same venues for difeerent sports, including cricket, Football, Hockey, etc. Cricket is important 'cos private cricket league is a novel idea, and to for it to take off, you need existing popular events. Once that makes impression, you could divert into other arenas.
This will help keep money in India for growth of our other sports and also tab and build new talents in cricket as well. BCCI need to join hand in all such initiative as it will generate income and also help build our sports infrastructure.
SCREW CRICKET A GAME PLAYED BY FEW NATIONS....PUT INDIA IN THE WORLD FOOTBALL MAP FOR GOD'S SAKE....EVERY EMERGING ECONOMIC POWER SHOULD BE A FOOTBALL POWERHOUSE....ENCOURAGE TEAM SPORTS THAT ARE STIMULATING FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, HOCKEY, TENNIS, ATHLETICS, GYMNASTICS ETC.......PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABT FOOTBALLLLLL
MOST WELCOME!! Also ZEE TV should try to own a few cricket grounds in some important cities of the country which can be turned lush green, fast & bouncy where all the league matches are to be played. And also, live coverages of these matches should be telecast live in ZEE SPORTS.
It was time before this happened. ICC is making money because of the popularity of Cricket in India and South Asia in general.
Zee should have a goal of making this the premier cricket league in the world just like NBA, Major League Baseball, and NFL in USA. The best players in the world come to US to play in these leagues because they offer the best salaries and other incentives like endorsements. India with its huge market and land filled with Cricket fanatics would be an ideal place to start such a league.
It won't be long before players are offered multi-million dollar contracts. Then guess where the best players in the world are coming to play cricket.
The whole league needs to be packaged well like NBA or NFL to be successful.
Competition has corrected many areas. Why not cricket?
Reasons of failure of team India. a)Cricket is a team game. If you remove the Captain mercilessly just when he started recovering from a bad patch with a predetermined plan.From one day, from test and then from the team altogether, you disturb the rythm of the team. b)You with vengeance start serching for an alternative to a person who still has a few years of cricket left, then your intentions are clear.You do not think about cricket or the team, you just have a petty agenda of blocking somebody's chances of redemtion, corrections and improvements. c) This petty agenda gets you out of focus. All your energy is concentrated on a negative agenda.You cn not see positive feel positive.In such a situation you can never be a role model. Other players canot accept you as a true leader. d)You also are not consistent in your planning. You go on testing players till the eve of the cup. Instead of encouraging the players going through a bad patch, you abuse them and drop them. You try very mediocre players from the domestic circuit. Here also you do not bring in the most prolific run getters of most wicket taking bowlers from the domestic cicuit. e) In a word you create an air of uncertainty among all the players. The old the new and the not so old. f) In such a given situation you can not get the best from your team. All the members become shaky and uncertain. g) You ruin the team in the process and your expection that players would give their best out of fear psychosis is a wrong theory.Negative incentive is not as rewarding as a positive incentive of appreciation from your coach or captain. " You didnt play? Okay never mind. Actually you should have done this or should not have done this. All right better luck next time, we are with you." h) This is called team spirit. This is called man management. I understand Chappel Rahul combination totally failed to consider this aspect of Indian cricket.They thought they would carry on experiments, drive out all legacies of the past captain and somehow put up a disjointed bunch of brilliant players who will perform for them. This is nver possible. The team spirit left by Saurav legacy continued in the first phase of Rahul Chappel era and won some matches. It evaporated too soon. Too much of experiments and ulterior motive ruined the team and the resultant humiliation for a nation of 125 million followed. This is clear logic. In the circumstances I see only one person standing above the rest to lead India for another two years required for grooming a new leader. This interim Captaincy must go to Saurav Ganguly. Obstinates term me as regionally biased, but it is only a coincidence that he is also an Indian hailing from the East.
Age does not matter always. With age people lose many thing but gain far more. You are to weigh the pros and cons. It is not a quetion of emotions but hard logic and rality. Can you discard Heden, McGrath,, Jayasurya, Femming,and a host of other players if not Lara only because they are old? Unless you groom your talents to be able to replace the old there is no point in saying remove the old. My point is all the current players. young old and not so old would have performed much better had there not been the accident Rahul Chappel takeover and gangly ouster. I have a strong feeling out of my experience of studying people for at least 36 years since I attained maturity, Rahul is no captain material. You keephim as captain and you will lose again and again and again. Excuses are easy tofind. Sometimes you say your batsmen have let you down sometimes you say your seniors have let you down sometimes you say your middle order has collapsed sometimes you say that your bowlers did not bowl well sometimes you say you would have won if you could score another 30 runs and so on. But this leads you no where. You are to come as a real friend to your team mates. You are to charge them to get the best of them. You are to use your prudence in all departments of captaincy batting bowling field setting bowler changing batting order changing encouraging enthusing and so on. Here Rahul lags far far behind. Gid knows if he is kept you will see the difference. He will have to make way for new captain very soon because India shall never reach that height under Rahul that it achieved under Saurav.
RE:Good Move
by prodosh sen on Apr 18, 2007 09:08 PM
Good till it turns out to be yet another BCCI -'old BCCI wine in a new Zee bottle'! Don't worry be happy till then.
RE:Good Move
by vivek iyer on Apr 05, 2007 12:42 AM
message was too long...u couldve just said " u were sorry for ganguly being dropped" ur entire article rallies around ur deep anguish for what happened with ganguly and uve tried to conceal it thru this extra long article. India must bid farewell to ganguly and sachin. Kumble maintained his dignity and left on his own. Its time ganguly and sachin followed kumble. They could both coach India A teams and junior teams to help the next generation of cricketers. the aussies, the south africans, the kiwis and the lankans have taken cricket to another level, we need to take drastic measures to catch up, unfortunately it can be done only at the expense of sachin and saurav.
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by prodosh sen on Apr 18, 2007 09:16 PM
It is you class of people who make India(and India-Cricket Team) provincial! You could have made your point,which is very logical,without exposing yourself as a provincial bug!
RE:Good Move
by riyfkm on Apr 11, 2007 08:03 PM
Is there only one player from West Bengal??? This attitude of few bengalis is really bad... You need to promote lots more cricketers from that region....(There are many young players in Bengal better than Old Ganguly) that will be good for the country... stop elevating ganguly all the time...
