IPL should never move out of India;didnt lalit modi know about the elections when they scheduled the tournament last year itself?couldn't they delay the tournament by a couple of weeks???
Re: ipl
by Raj on Mar 24, 2009 09:44 PM
As the famous verses of Richard Marx song go....Wherever you go... Whatever you do... I will be right here waiting for you! Whatever it takes.... Or how my heart breaks.... I will be right here waiting for you!
Re: Re: ipl
by Lake shark on Mar 24, 2009 09:48 PM
well another famous song by richard marx. Hazard. Thats what chidu only saw. Well I guess he is a repeat offender. first finance fiasco, now security confidence.
Why blame one or two blame the whole package involved. Will any foreign team visit us ? Will there be any foreign tourists enjoying India's hospitality ? SHAME ON ALL INVOLVED IN THIS FIASCO.
Indian Premiere League should be conducted in India even though they have to wait a little. The poor Indian fans are loosing their chance to see the matches. There will be not much crowd in SA to see the match. So whatever time it takes it should be conducted in India.
Why can't the IPL be shifted to a new venue where there is not much international cricket take place, so that people over there will have some thing to charm. For eg: it can be Sharjah, Abudhabi or maybe even in Kenya or Zimbabwe. Anyhow 95% people are going to watch in TElevision and people at new venue will be much more than South Africa.
IPL should never be held anywhere except India.. Its not only a tournament but also a mark of our country,its people and their love for the game... Its better to cancel the tournament than to change the venue... Being an Indian i strongly oppose the move and if it has to go ahead anyway then it should not be called as the IPL....
Re: IMPOTENT Government
by sanjeev verma on Mar 24, 2009 10:07 PM
BCCI (And also ICC) is a private club and like any other private club, they are free to decide anything related to their club and its activities.
Cricket in india is a private sports not supported by government officially. Indian goverment or its bodies can not conduct and control cricket tournaments in india. All the cricket stadiums and sports authorities are members of BCCI.
ICL (Whose chairperson is Kapil Dev) also another private club that also organize cricket tournaments in india. This is similar to football clubs in England/Italy etc.
We indian are fools enough to think that goverment can interfere in any of the BCCI issue. The only issue with BCCI is that it depends on Local police and administration (e.g Traffic personals) for secure and successfull cricket toournament. If there would be enough private security personals in india, BCCI, being cash rich, can avail the facility but unfortunately its not the case. Since this time government denied any local support to IPL, BCCI decided to conduct it in SA. Government is not bound to support a private club. If we are so desperate about cricket then we should force government to adopt cricket as official sports, in that case you can blame government easily.
If government is not able to provide security to cuntable number of players, how it will provide secure environment for normal people so called "Aam Aadami" ? People of India must teach the lesson to UPA in this election.
This shows how much cricket has become a business than a pure entertainment. BCCI and IPL team owners only care about media distribution rights and ad money coming from the matches.. I don't think they really care about Cricket and people enjoying the game first hand.
