have gone through all the comments....its true that cricketers are given all the facilities and bucks butthey deserve it.they done it with there own perfomance,if indian hockey is facing this probs today..then its there perfomance if they perform well and get indian's hockey glory back then nobody can ignore them.lets your perfomance speak first then if no solution .then players should revolt along with media and masses......
Re: why crikt should be blame............
by K Arulkumaar on Jan 11, 2010 12:18 PM
No sense by criticizing government or others. We have to blame ourselves. We people are not interested in Hockey or other sports except cricket. Player’s salary depends upon the income of the concerned boards. If we people show interest in Hockey & other sports obviously the income increases, then the players can be paid more than they expect. SO IT’S ALL UPTO TO WE PEOPLE TO ENCOURAGE OTHER SPORTS ALSO
for BCCI this amount is just like a drop in an ocean..usually cricketers talk in millions and billions.. wer as for these hocky players they are still in thousands..so request the BCCI to support these hockey players..you can get this amount if you give tender saying "Ads space available on Cricketrs undergarments" i think u;ll get millions maybe billions frm this.
i have gone through all the comments....its true that cricketers are given all the facilities and bucks butthay deserve it.they done it with tere own perfomance,if indian hockey is facing this probs today..then its there perfomance if they perform well and get indian's glory back then nobody can ignore them.lets your perfomance speak first then if no solution .then players should revolt along with media and masses......
Re: why to blame cricket........
by sdhg on Jan 11, 2010 12:24 PM
can you work empty stomach.... you are selfish who jst think for himself and not others....
Re: why to blame cricket........
by K Arulkumaar on Jan 11, 2010 12:17 PM
No sense by criticizing government or others. We have to blame ourselves. We people are not interested in Hockey or other sports except cricket. Player’s salary depends upon the income of the concerned boards. If we people show interest in Hockey & other sports obviously the income increases, then the players can be paid more than they expect. SO IT’S ALL UPTO TO WE PEOPLE TO ENCOURAGE OTHER SPORTS ALSO
Re: Re: why to blame cricket........
by Nagarajan Janakiraman on Jan 11, 2010 02:04 PM
while agreeing that the players should be paid their dues, it is also time that the players do some hardwork to earn. We are now forced to fight to qualify in major tournament like olympics world cup, etc so why blame others. So far hockey India is adept at finding reasons for losses/failures.
Re: why to blame cricket........
by Dev o on Jan 11, 2010 12:18 PM
What is Indian Cricket's glory other than 1982 world cup victory.Now they are even either loosing to Bangladesh or sweating to win over them.So for the last 25 yrs cricket has not borught any glory for the NAtion except to cricket players
Re: Re: why to blame cricket........
by manoj bhardwaj on Jan 11, 2010 12:20 PM
ITS 1983 WORLD CUP,T20 WORLD CUP ANDLOTS MORE..........BUT FOR HOCKEY ONLY 8 GOLD MEDAL IN OLYMPICS THAT TOO LONG BACK......
to me govt of india should strictly pass a bill ensuring that sportsman alone run sports bodies so that all these games will end. none of the sports bodies in india were headed by a genuine veteran sports persons. for examples sharad pawar(played 200 tests and 500 one dayers for india), ipl(modi), veteran of cricket, then gills, singhs etc for hockey and so on. there should be a crieteria for example to become icc precident at least represente for any of the nation for 2 world cups and certain number of all format cricket games.
Cricket does not owe anything to hockey just as cricket in England does not owe anything to English football or Baseball owes nothing to American football.
The validity of hockey grievances should be judged on their own merits.
These sports involving a batter and bowler be they cricket or baseball are insanely popular be they in India or America. However this is a passion of the people and there is nothing logical about a passion.
Anyway bringing cricket into a hockey discussion is simply futile. India may owe hockey a lot but cricket owes hockey nothing.
Re: Helping hockey does not mean blaming cricket....
by kaberi gupta on Jan 11, 2010 12:22 PM
I agree, but then somebody like Jagmohan Dalmia should be made Prez of HI for next five years not only to make a good team but also to make this game popular among the masses and bring good sponsers for various tournaments. Dalmia is a good choice as he never dribbled a hockey ball even as an administrator and hence he will bring good veteran players to coach school level, college level and national teams. Will people like Gills, Singhs, Mattos leave the scene for the betterment of Hockey in India and elect Dalmia?
Re: Re: Helping hockey does not mean blaming cricket....
by NashikMarathi on Jan 11, 2010 12:36 PM
It is an option.
I personally think that baseball and cricket are very suitable for TV. The action is limited to the pitch and the fast action like catches, runs etc can be covered in slow mo between balls/pitches.
Ice hockey is more successful than field hockey but still less than basketball in the US. Mind you the stadia for ice hockey and basketball are same. However on TV for "me" it is hard to follow that ice hockey puck compared with the much larger basketball. Ice hockey tried that "cometized" puck some years ago......
Similarly the field hockey ball is hard to follow compared to a soccer ball on a roughly similar field on television.
It is all about television and some sports are more suited to TV than others.
Re: Helping hockey does not mean blaming cricket....
by Sathish N on Jan 11, 2010 12:07 PM
Exactly! If anyone is to be blamed, it is the aam admi for promoting some sport and ignoring the other. Justice should start from our home. We get what we deserve.
Will HI or for that matter any sports body hold a basic meeting without Mineral water, Tea, Biscuits, etc why is it that the Players have to stoop to the level of revolt to ask for BASIC Food, Comfortable Accomodation & Travel and Payment of peanut allowances in time. Other than BCCI it is almost same with all sports bodies in the country,,,, Or else only people like Abhinav Bhindra (I have full respect & regard for him) who can afford to foot the cost of their own training are able to make it,,,, A real shame to our sports loving country,,,
Mr Narender Batra,who was also former Vice President of IHF who always stood for his own ambitions and eyeing for secretaryship of Hockey India in the forthcoming election.So naturally he is less interseted in Hockey Players food and remunerations.He is busy with playing election politics. LET BATRA'S AND KALMADI'S WIN ELECTIONS NOT WORLDCUPS . LONG LIVE POLITICS OF KALMADI,A.K.MATTOO AND BATRA IN HOCKEY INDIA
Hii, i used to play hockey during my school days but later just following all the proceadings. What you expect from a team which wins gold in Asian games and returns home? Can any one remember 1998 Bangkok Asian games? On winning gold medal Senior Indian player Dhanaraj Pillay and captain of Gold Winning team Ashish Ballal were shown d doars. From this day the real debacle of so called our National gams hockeys debacle started. and d man responsible for this is d culprit KPS GILL. we hockey fans are never going to forget this
Re: Debacle of Hockey started from
by jayesh john on Jan 11, 2010 12:09 PM
These so called administrators of HI havent even held the stick in their dolly hands,why should they be worried of players let alone nation.
