Harsha jee, Agree with your economic relevance but in my view it is stretched too far.
Yes, with money you can exist but existence is different from living. Is it not? Does money bring passion in life? For many, excluding you or me, cricket is a passion. Many poor, too, are passionate about the game. Agree that proper living facility, GDP, per capita income and infrastructure etc. are all important. But do you think having all that will make cheerful? Is there a straightforward relation between them?
To put your analogy in business case: Can CEO and board of directors of a public company declare handsome bonus for key contributor to success? Of course they do.
Cricket is money making machine and with handsome income of 6520 million INR per year, do you still believe Yuvraj got as much as a company CEO would get? I think not.
There are things we do not measure with question or IF and THEN. Srisanth could have dropped the catch but fortunately he has not and thus the celebrations. What if I would have chosen a different career path than becoming an engineer? God knows. Its all fate and destiny but we do not know that until it gets uncovered.
Sportsmen of popular games are icons of young generation and children learn a good deal from them. I was fortunate to witness Michael Jordan playing during my college days and I have learned a lot just by seeing him approaching the game of basket ball.
Looking at demographics, India is one of the youngest countries i
