RE:ICL we dont need
by shailendra gupta on Apr 02, 2008 04:59 PM Permalink
you are asking a mathmatics teacher to teach histiory by saying kapil should start hockey league... this is highly illogical....
RE:ICL we dont need
by timepass on Apr 02, 2008 05:05 PM Permalink
Point is, if there was no money in cricket (as is the case in hockey), Kapil's new-found passion for promoting "real talents" would not have seen daylight. If not Kapil, Subhas Chandra can start a hockey league and promote it on TV. The last thing we need to hear from these greedy insensitive people is they care for talent. They are actually destroying young careers while filling their own pocket.
RE:ICL we dont need
by Kaushik Dev on Apr 02, 2008 06:11 PM Permalink
Mr. Timepass, are you Mr. Pawar, trying to cry here? There is no better corrupt person than Pawar.
RE:RE:ICL we dont need
by tka on Apr 02, 2008 06:15 PM Permalink
timepass,
you are wrong about the whole thing. BCCI has not popularized cricket, it is popular on its own steam and because of increase in penetration of television in India. BCCI is one which is cashing in on the popularity. BCCI has shown no accountability, even its accounts are not fully published properly. They have spent no money on training, grounds, improving standard of cricket and ground level until very recently. The ranji players, and state players were hardly paid anything. So much that past indian national players like chandrashekhar went begging, when they needed some money to carry an operation. Times of India started a charity fund for chandrashekhar's operation. eknath solkar died a pauper - the list is endless. Therefore BCCI did not do anything. Sports in other countries is commercially viable and is a suitable career option for people across the ranks and hence people take up sports. Therefore, there is nothing wrong in making a sport commercially viable, which is what Kapil is doing. What the hell is wrong with that? Dont the players have a right to earn and live a good life? They have a short life and they need to make money in that short period. He is promoting cricket because he is a cricketer and is commercialing exploit it because it is possible. He has been very candid about it and I do not see what is wrong in it. Also, he is not barring them from playing for India, BCCI is and that too illegally. You are wrong about the whole thing.
RE:RE:RE:ICL we dont need
by timepass on Apr 02, 2008 07:20 PM Permalink
Let us know when ICL distributes the money to all players and let the public know how the money generated is being distributed. How much Kapil is getting versus a Ranji player he has hired. Nobody is saying BCCI is not accountable, but we will stop exploitation and loot in the name of cricket unless all fund usage is publicly disclosed.
RE:ICL we dont need
by Ashwath on Apr 02, 2008 04:46 PM Permalink
Please request the authorities to ban cricket telecasting so all these drama will be ended. otherwise cricket will spoil sport and spirit in India.
RE:ICL we dont need
by Vijay urf Teesmar Singh on Apr 02, 2008 04:39 PM Permalink
Kapil never wanted to break Indian team. ICL has not sropped any of their players to play for India. It is BCCI which has banned all players playing in ICL. It is a war of money, otherwise why BCCI should object on ICL?
RE:ICL we dont need
by timepass on Apr 02, 2008 04:51 PM Permalink
I agree. BCCI has popularized cricket and now Kapil wants to make a killing out of its popularity. He gives a damn to young careers ending due to joining rebel league and continues to lure them for money.When these cricketers mature and think back they sacrificed a chance to represent their nation becoz of Kapil's greed for money, they will hate him. There are already so many domestic leagues in India - as if India was waiting for ICL to happen to produce talented cricketers. And as if playing ICL will produce the next Tendulkar or Dravid. Hell with Kapil. He doesn't have the balls to admit he is doing it for the money and misleading a nation by bullshitting about promoting talent.
