Hello All,
This is my second review in this site and felt that this is somewhat important and writing about sports and not about products.
The word Cricket in Asia is Heaven not just talking about India. It was a class game before money killed the sprits of the game. It all happened in 1996 World Cup where billions of money was made. Our top 2 or 3 cricketers in the current team make hell alot of money. No complaints. Its the talent that transforms it into money. Cricket was not made very commercial before 1996. No injuries nothing. Its all the Board which wants to earn a lot. But what about Viswanathan Anand, Anju Geroge, Paes (exempted) and many more others who are not known to us but indeed very talented than our Indian Cricket Team.
Well sorry should I call our Indian Cricket Team as Samsung or Pepsi or Coke or Adidas Cricket team? Whereas our other sports person don’t even get basic facilities in life to live whereas Sachin and Ganguly have fancy cars for their weekends.
Our cricketers are Executives in top notch companies whereas other sports people don’t even have a job what we have. There are many sports people who have quit games just for their sake of livelihood. One of the best example in recent times was Rower Shobhini Rajan, who committed suicide as she was unable to pay for medical expense which are pie nuts for our cricketers. No one supported her. Even our cricketers are rich that they can sponsor anyone out of their choice. I will be happy if our players are like Australian Steve Waugh who supports many homes. Yes many will know only about Steve Waugh but for that even Gilchrist or Brett Lee does support many people around the world still they earn less than our cricketers.
My humble request is, we should also pay attention to other sports and not just cricket and this is the reason I am writing in this forum.
I hope I was not offensive or hurted anyone’s feelings. If so I am sorry. My motive of writing this article is hope it will be of food for thought for some sponsors when they come across.
If this article is supported by you people I believe then it will be an eye opener for many people who believe that cricket is only the game. I hope everyone will support this. Since we the public of India should give equal importance to other sports as we are the one who are responsible for making cricketers rich.
I would like to have some more articles posted and feedbacks too. Good Luck. Jai Hind.