I had written this message a few days ago and I am pleased that other people are of similar opinion. In my opinion, it is a wrong decision by BCCI to control cricketer's personal endorsements. I think that was done to appease the public rather than to improve player's performance. At the end of the day no player would under-perform on purpose as the money they get DEPENDS on their performance!! That is exactly the reason why some players have more endorsements than others because they DESERVED it!! Monetary gain and popularity IS a major reason to perform well no matter what patriotic stuff the public or the players themselves say. Financial gain and publicity is a major drive to perform in any field not just cricket. If you take away or limit or try to control the drive then it might have an adverse effect on the attitude of the players and annoy them as well. I can cite an example here - One of the famous private hospitals put restrictions on the private practice of the doctors they employed (even though it was in their off work time). The result: The doctors became less committed / dedicated to their work and most of the well-established doctors left their jobs. It may not directly apply to the Indian cricketers as their career DEPENDS on BCCI hence this dictatorial attitude from the latter. I suspect the BCCI will eventually go back on this decision or come to a feasible agreement.
RE:I agree with Mr.Gaekwad
by Rman on Apr 13, 2007 03:25 AM Permalink
Your Quote: "Financial gain and publicity is a major drive to perform in any field not just cricket"
I agree with the above, and will add that the reverse also applies - when you don't perform, you face the music. The key word in the quote above is "perform", and I'm sorry, but the Indian Team has no legs to stand on regarding performance. We all saw what they delivered, and it was beyond appalling. No one has a problem with rewarding great performances on the field, in fact, they probably will welcome it. However, people will have serious issues when morons cash in on their status of being "Indian Players" via endorsements, and fail to deliver the goods. This has been the trend in the Indian Team for over almost 2 decades. Hence the result - India has not won a single major one day tournament outside the subcontinent in 20 years. And why will they? When easy money is available, no fool will give his life on the field, including these clowns who think it's their birthright to play for India. They've all gotten too rich and too arrogant. Each one thinks they are stars with their fancy designer Oakley glasses, and the rest of the jaaz. While swimming in all their crores and crores of moolah, they all conveniently forgot one key thing - the game is always bigger than the player...
RE:I agree with Mr.Gaekwad
by glamdring on Apr 13, 2007 08:43 AM Permalink
Agree, these guys are chronic underachievers and their sense of entitlement is baffling. Forget about them being stars, just as people, where is their humility ?
But i think the primary culprit is BCCI. Anything and everything about cricket is monopolized by BCCI, and someone with a basic knowledge of economics would know that monopolies have no reason to improve their products, in this case our cricketers.
I am just hoping that Subash Chandra's idea takes off. When we have teams that are managed in a budget and are striving for profits, we can see some exciting sport and real talent, not these spoilt lot.
For you left-leaning-swadeshi-India-shining brigade, mind you, BCCI themselves have successfully argued in Indian Supreme court that the indian cricket team is playing for BCCI-the organization, and not for India, the country, so its already a mismanaged private company. therefore you public and hence our govt has no business in meddling in their affairs unless you are a cabinet minister who also holds the position of the chairman, in which case you will start to think how to become the head of another bigger mismanaged club, the ICC, even while constituents are committing mass suicides . Well, i have digressed a lot, the bottomline is BCCI is the biggest reason for India's sad state of Cricket, and we the nation of cricket lovers are helpless spectators. Our elected representatives, mainly from Bongland were shreiking for Ganguly's inclusion, while none of them, save Lalu, have given a thought to india's debacle.
Whoever makes cricket reform in their manifesto probably has a good shot in the by-polls.
RE:I agree with Mr.Gaekwad
by satarupa sen on Apr 13, 2007 11:12 AM Permalink
And the Bong has averaged 60 plus since his return, won a Man of the Series, was close to winning another and had the highest average among teh Indians in the World Cup. Granted, he could not dominate the bowlers in WC, but at least scored some runs. What did the others do?
RE:I agree with Mr.Gaekwad
by glamdring on Apr 14, 2007 01:27 PM Permalink
Yeah, truly big deal, average the stats out for the past 4 years, and then thump your chest with bong pride. Are you guys f**ing real ? Ganguly was a great captain, but he was losing out on his batting for a good 3 years and thats why he was chucked out. He was back to please people like you, true, he performed better than the rest, but the bottomline is rules were bent to get him back in the team. He'll always be the guy who killed the career of some other better younger players. But what do you care, you want your own dada back
RE:I agree with Mr.Gaekwad
by Sudipto Ghosh on Apr 13, 2007 06:52 PM Permalink
Mr.Rman thank you for your feed back and I completely agree with you on that the players are under-performing. But then the BCCI should decide on their cricketing issues not financial ones. If they are not performing then BCCI can drop them from the playing eleven. The issue about endorsements should be left to the companies' products the players are endorsing. If they persistently underperform the players will eventually lose the endorsements.
