its really a welcome on behalf of the authority as everyone has a right to profession of choice n BCCI is forgetting that main moto of existence of BCCI is not to make money but work for improvement of cricket in india and look after the players. nearly 25 players get to play for india and on an 16 players per state team in various ranji and other competitions. so if ICL is providing opportunity to other talented who are not satisfied with the level they are playing at or who are better players in the shortest version of game or who were being consistentlu ignored by BCCI due to Zonal discrimination or seniorty or tagged as being too old. why is BCCI behaving in this manner. does it have problem that some more players could get support and recognition at national level or does it have problem that some other board(ICL) would make some money or that BCCI will lose its monopoly and attention it has been getting since its origin. And the BCCI authorities are not considering public opinion and public feelings who consider cricket much more than a game used by BCCI to make money. BCCI has been making a lot of money for more than a decade now and it is only after declarations by ICL that Bcci has started paying some share to our state boards and state players. this is totally evil and against the sports spirit. biggest sin being committed by BCCI is that it is controlling GENTELMAN'S GAME but not behaving like one.
when the money will dry up zee will back out but will bcci will money has started coming now bt bcci was still there when money was not there in their bank tell kapil how much he earned when he debuted !!! y did he do ny thing like this at tht time bcci is in for 70 yrs hes he debuted 30 yrs because cricket is a money making business these days kapil ur fooling the people of india well he says 35000 for a ranji player as a pension after retirement is not good tell me how many people earn 35000 a month in this country well kapil ur devils advocate not with with all dirty mind stop fooling the peoples emotion
If Subhash Chandra, the head of Zee Telefilms group, and Himanshu Mody, the project director of the ICL, had not projected Kapil so publicly as the face of ICL, it would have been possible to ignore the World Cup-winning captain. But at the launch press conference of the ICL, Kapil dominated the proceedings, even answering questions posed to Mody, that it%u2019s only fair we accept him as the face and public voice of the ICL. %u201CThis is the cream of Indian cricket,%u201D Kapil said, pointing to the group of nearly 50 domestic cricketers who have signed with the ICL. But a proper examination of the players gives an accurate account of the situation. Bengal%u2019s Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, young and talented, is a potential loss to the BCCI. He%u2019s 24, and has barely played two seasons of Ranji Trophy cricket, and it%u2019s stunning that he thinks he won%u2019t make it to the Indian team. Whether he believes he won%u2019t make it because Bengal players don%u2019t get enough recognition %u2014 and he only needs to look to Ranadeb Bose, who was picked for a Test tour after nine seasons of first-class cricket, to know this is untrue %u2014 or because he doesn%u2019t believe in himself, is a moot point. Either way, his leap to the other side means he took the decision out of the hands of the national selectors. Dheeraj Jadhav, close to being selected for India recently, is another who has found it impossible to keep the faith.
But apart from Jhunjhunwala and Jadhav, there isn%u2019t a single player in the ICL list who has a chance to make
There are few things more dangerous than trying to fool all the people all the time. Politicians know what to say when elections approach, and how to erase that from the public%u2019s memory when they are over. Administrators know how to say enough to stick to those in power, but keep enough room to manoeuvre to the other side when the balance shifts. Businessmen know when to pour money into a venture and, more importantly, when to pull it out. The Indian Cricket League (ICL), as of now, has displayed none of these discretions, and dismayingly, has shouted from the rooftops with nothing much to say.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India does so many things wrong it is a sitting target for anyone who wants to have a go. The Board can be attacked for how much money i makes and how little it does to improve the experience of the average cricket fan. It can be taken to task for how late it has been in recognising critical stakeholders in the running of the game %u2014 umpires, scorers groundsmen. Its media management is so suspect it hasn%u2019t appointed a press officer or hosted a website that any hack could find fault.
But all this has nothing to do with the formation of the ICL. The claim of some former cricketers, led by Kapil Dev, about how they are with the ICL to promote cricket in India, is so palpably false that it is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who knows the first thing about how cricket is played and administered in the country.
