I Want To Be A Cricketer Dad!!

This is a story of a child born somewhere in India few years back. When he open his eyes he found himself surrounded with a lot of happy looking faces.

As he grows up and start understanding the world he realised that his dad sometime act weired while watching television. He stop drinking and eating but never stop smoking, hold his head most of the time while screaming and for a change he do clap or dance. His behavior toward him and mom is parallel to his act while watching cricket.Today is the same day when his dad came home early and put on television completely ignored him and his mom. Child went straight to his mom and asked her "Mummy, papa aisa kyun karte hain! (Mom, why dad behave like this?). "Papa se hi puch lo!(Ask your Dad), was the reply with a frustration.

Now is the turn of dad to face the question , "Papa yeh aap iss tarah kyun karte hain khabi khabi" (Dad why you behave like this some times?). Dad turned his head toward him, took him in his arms and again start watching the television. He keep looking at his dad from his arms, waiting for reply. "Beta yeah jaadu hai" (Son this is magic), "Jaadu?"(Magic?) son asked, "Haan" (Yes) was the reply from Dad.

"Yeh cricket ka jaadu hai(This is the magic of Cricket), when this begin our whole nation stop moving, no one move from his seat when our country playing, this make us cry and laugh. No doubt this is the biggest and best magic of all time, we dont care how much working hours our country loose because of this, everyone is more crazy than other".

While giving explanation that match ended, India lost and child's dad become serious. "Cricket Kaun Hai?" child asked again, suddenly some advertisement start displaying over television, father point his finger towards television and said "Wo jo uncle hai na wo jadugar hai cricket ke". Child stop talking and start watching the television where advertisement of a cola company was coming with one of our star cricket player was reapting "xxxx piyu and jito".

When all this was happening mom finished making dinner and called " chodo bhi phir haar gaye, ab khana kha lo" and they went to have their dinner.

Me too feeling hungry now, friends this story is not complete, I will be back with the next part ...........

Show Me The Money

Yea, you read the title correct, after reading many posts of different users and some articles of newspapers, this is the statement Indian players say to all their agents and within team there are groups which can be distributed with the brand names. Mr.Sharad Pawar put more "ghee" in fire by giving the statement to a news channel " some advertisers are influencing the selection" , which raised the storm through our "responsible media".

Two of Indian players (one confirmed name is of Saurav Dada and for second one i am not sure but look like its Yuvraj Singh) have a special clause in their their endorsement contract which encourage them to stay at wicket for more time at any cost (do runouts, take blows, dont make runs but stay). Most of Ex-players and Cricket Board are worried that this kind of clauses can influence the decision of bat or bowl first.

In my opinion India's decision in World Cup to bat first against Bangladesh was because of this only where Greg Chappel was in favour of Bowling.

Yuvraj run himself out in match against Sri Lanka because he was actully trying to run Dravid Out (If you guys dont believe me get that clip and watch it again and again. There was no run in that position where Yuvraj try to steal a single).

If I am right these can be the other contracts:

Dhoni : To drink Milk during the match breaks and to keep his hairs over face while wicket keeping.

Bhajji : To talk over Samsung Phone during breaks and make a gesture of drinking "Royal Stag" after taking wicket (this clause changed in recent time as he is not taking wickets).

Sehvag : to wear a white blazer while batting and fielding (Mayur) not to forget drinking "Boost" during breaks.

Sachin : To make sure bhajji phone got the airtel connection, Dhoni eat "sunfeat" along with milk and moderate all other competitor brands (this mean he need to sit in pavilion as much as possible).

Dravid : Approach all cricket players, force them to open a account with "Bank of Baroda" and buy insurance policy of "MAX".

Yuvraj : To park his "Hero Honda" at point to help him reach balls faster.

Are these not compile with the Indian sentiments (?) Drink Cricket, Talk Cricket, Eat Cricket ......

Who's the Daddy!! - Board or Players

Before starting this post i didnt find any other title and this thought come to my mind reminding me the hollywood movies in which this dialogue is repeated frequently. Yes, who is the Daddy in indian cricket? BCCI or Star Players?

The new players contract revel it all,till Sptember'06 (old contract) the retainer amount was Rs 50 lakh, 35 lakh and 20 lakh for players in Grades A, B and C, respectively other than Players match fees. Current contract say " the players will only be given a signing amount of Rs.5 lakh besides Rs.10 lakh per annum as retainership". Match fees is also cut down to 1.5 lakh and Rs.2.5 lakh for ODI and Test respectively, but they did introducted the bonuses depending on their match and series wins.

Sounds like a demotion? they have tried to cut down the income of players by limiting personal endrosement with corporates at three, where current players have endrosement with more that that limit and some even crosses 10 mark.

All this becuae of cricket teams poor show at cricket world cup 2007 and the above move is forced by the accountaility of cricket players. But how much accontability our cricket board holds for Cricket world cup poor show? they still earning Rs.Rs.4,300,520,583 (43 hundred crores approx.) and this will increase in future.

There Cricket Board shown them that they are the Daddy of this show!! and Players will again start crying in front of Cricket Board for more match fees and endrosement deals. In the past also Players tried to take a upper hand by forming a players associaton but I have not heard about them from quite a long time ....anyway I used to do for pocket money and expect them to take some steps like that ...ha ha ha......

Retirement and me?

I am not sure if all of you know that how much our Sachin "10'Dulkar" (these days this name fits him) earn yearly? His estimated income through advertisements for next 4 years is Rs.140 crores ($31 million),till date he has earned estimated Rs.200 crores ($45 million), Rs.185 crores through endrosements and corporate advertisements. As a player fees he earned only Rs.15 crores.

His current endrosements are Pepsi, Canon, Sunfeast, Boost, Adidas, Reynolds, ESPN-Star, Sanyo, MRF, Visa, National Egg Coordination Committee.

Rs.50 lakhs a year is what he earn today as a part of Indian Cricket Board Contract and a part from this Rs.1.6 lakh and Rs.2.6 laksh for every One Day Internationa and Test Match respectively.

Thats a big money for a cricket players and thought last couple of years is not good for him as a cricket player he still earning.So brother why to care about the form and sentiments of Indian Cricket Fans? afterall money matter most and he is still a good player if not "Guru"of Cricket.

Lets earn and let him earn Mr.Sharad Pawar and Mr.Vengsarkar!!

Anyone there who like to loose this much of money?

Droped or Rested - Sachin and Ganguly

Few of big guns are not in team for Bangaladesh cricket tour like Sachin Tendulkar and Ganguly. Our chief Cricket Selector Mr.Vengsarkar told reporters that "I had talked with them and only after they agree we Rested them".

Ha ha ha .... Is that mean that team was selected after consulting the "Seniors" of Indian Cricket. Come on Mr.Selector, be brave say "Yes we dropped them because of their performance".

On this issue our Kapil Dev shared his toughts to a TV channel "yes they are droped not rested", and he is experience enough to say that. Then why cant our selectors say the straight statement. Are they too under the "Dadagiri" of Senior Cricket players?

Still confused but do Cricket Players over Cricket in India? many events in past and present cement this.

Once again all the best to our Cricket Team for upcoming Bangaladesh Tour ( huh... we need wishes to win, even in Bangladesh)