What bothers me that in India, sport as Lousy as Cricket is the highest paying sport. This tells us that us how bad a situation is for other sport. Have we became so lousy, potato couch , office cockroach that we adopted Cricket as our favorite sport?
Top 5 stories this year end..... 1) Sachin Tendulkar has finally decided to retire from international cricket and IPL giving youngsters a deserving chance to play for country and donate his half earning to poor people 2) Salman Khan is finally marrying next month with a simple girl from non filmi background at his panvel farm house 3) Congress says they will bring back all the back money from Switzerland and donate it to poor people and use it for other redevelopment work. 4) IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla agreed that he will ban IPL from next year and concentrate on ranji trophy tournaments for betterment of Indian cricket and develop good players 5) Lokpal bill will be passed in next parliament session as in the all party meeting final consensus was made and everyone accepted its clause ... Open your Eyes. wake up... APRIL FOOL....
THis is more of a rant, which reeks of the jealousy of not being able to earn the kind of money that cricketers earn.
These are the best professionals in the country. How much do the best actors earn ? How much do the best doctors, the best lawyers and the best managers earn ?
Re: What a massive rant
by BRUNO MONTEIRO on Apr 01, 2012 03:38 PM
hahah... how much does a professional Hockey player earn in India compared to 12th man in cricket.. not even 50%.. Mr. Rajan.. u have a one way mind.. pity that people like you are born in India
Re: Re: What a massive rant
by RAJAN MHAMAI on Apr 02, 2012 10:05 PM
Bruno , it is indeed a pity that people like are born in this country. Did you read the article ?Here are some of the lines from the article : "that's several times more than what my family and four of my neighbours' families would earn in our lifetimes." " won't be unfair to say that many of us work for 50 hours a week on an average. In larger cities such as Mumbai we spend about 20 hours just commuting to and from work. Let me not get started on the unskilled labourers who seem to work endlessly for all their lives"
The writer is comparing sports persons to unskilled labourers ? Is that fair ? And is it fair for you to ingore that ?
A professional hockey player earning less is not the fault of cricketers. Its the governments fault. I am sure you have nothing logical to say to that.
Author wrote: "Wikipedia quotes the 2010 edition of the same report estimating that 'the average salary of an IPL player over a year would be $3.84 million' -- that's several times more than what my family and four of my neighbours' families would earn in our lifetimes"
$3.84 million is said by Mr.Abhishek Mandbuddhi to average salary for an IPL player so an average budget would be $100 million for each team when they are limited by rules to $7 million. So according to Mr. Mandbuddhi, Cricket teams have less than 2 players (see $3.84 million as average) or the decline in costs was so huge that 2010 average was 3.84 million while Gambhir the highest paid for 2011 got 2.4 million or 150% less than last year's average. The real figure is 38.4 lakhs or rupees 3.84 million which is less than average sum earned that year by average Indian H-1 B software professional. I would say that this sum is earned by a software professional and his 4000000 neighbour families every year of their lifetimes going forward atleast.
See the difference $ or rupee sign makes. Whole article now seems a rant against one's betters by a frustrated individual. Viraat Kohli was paid $5000 for that season so by Mr. Abhishek Mandbuddhi's stats, if average player salary was a 10 foot ravana, Viraat's salary that year was the itch in one of 20 armpits. Mr Mande definitley begrudges the cricketers their money. He should turn his attention to our kabaddi teams, they also complained of tr
Re: Crickeet
by pravin sarode on Apr 01, 2012 07:35 AM
black money made white in IPL? second IPL was the most fixed IPL in south africa where indian tax men had zero access really w r gr8
Presently Cricket is all a Casino play rest all talks stop lying and pretending innocent sports lovers. This game is a limited sport played by some poor commonwealth legacy fellas which is now a days a prime resource for these syndicates to indulge into making filthy quick-bucks in the guise of pseudo-sports in connivance with all market-crooks all around. Those who are called as players in this entire hoopla are bunch of uneducated lusty fools from obvious petty backgrounds as well who are deprived badly in their own societies to show their excellence in any other way.
Excellent article. Hit to the point. The Indian players are not professionals. They are paid like professionals but behave like kids. Look at the NBA or American Football Association players. They are paid high and behave like professionals. We often compare us with foreign players, but we forget to compare our Indian mind with them.
Re: Excellent
by pravin sarode on Apr 01, 2012 07:42 AM
Rahul Dravid also fall pray to IPL golden bricks like gold bricks in shree lanka in Ramayana i failed to understand why Rahul Dravid retired from test just as he failed in australia there are ups and downs in life but we fi8
