THANK YOU KIRAN FOR YOUR INVITATION. THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLAYING FOR THE COUNTRY AND PLAYING FOR IPL.THE COUNTRY`S BODY FIXED REMUNERATION FOR PLAYERS BASED ON VARIOUS SYSTEMS SUITABLE TO THEM WHEREAS IN THE CASE OF IPL PLAYERS ARE AUCTIONED.THE WINNERS ARE NOT IN ANYWAY CONNECTED WITH THE GAME OR PLAYERS AND THEY ARE BUSINESS PEOPLE COMING FORWARD TO INVEST TONS OF MONEY.BUSINESS IS NEVER DONE FOR CHARITY.PRIMA FACIE IT IS PROJECTED THAT PEOPLE ARE DEVELOPING THE GAME INTENTION IS ONLY TO MAKE MONEY. SENSING THE MOOD OF INDIAN SPECTATORS WHO LOVE THE GAME,PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING FORWARD TO INVEST WANT TO REAP MANIFOLD AND THERE STARTS EVERY UNWANTED THING SPOILING THE SPIRIT AND IMAGE OF OF THE GAME.SO SHREWD BUSINESS PEOPLE EXPLOIT THE SITUATION TO MINT MONEY BY VARIOUS MEANS.
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s.baalu , Consultant, XYZ LTD
| 04 24 2010 13:38:09 +0000
Dear sir, again i can say that you are slightly right. but we can easily understand that players play their game only for money and they get money after they made run with a very good strike rate. in this they forget the technique of cricket. sometimes they suffer injury but still they play cricket .why this so?only for money.
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maheshtiwary , Retail Store Manager, essar telecom
| 04 24 2010 07:44:55 +0000
Obviously, yes. The game of cricket is elevated to a very high level. Earlier, bookies were involving themselves in the game of cricket clandestinely. Due to them, many of our great cricketers were brought into controversy. Even the national spirited person, like, Kapil Dev had to sulk in public due to the controversy and the South African Cricket Legend had to shed his life due to the great controversy. Now, the situation is topsy-turvy. Combination of political power, industrialists, media and entertainment groups, celebrities and the likes have joined hands to make it even more effective. Hitherto, what was happening in dark has now been happening in public glare. The game of cricket has been controlled by India in many ways. Poor cricketers, they are exposed to all sorts of people - we don't know how many of them were threatened, knowingly or unknowingly, to play for them. Are they going to get the promised fee, as the new controversy is turning very ugly, and there are many heads that are likely to be rolled. In the circumstances, only the Almighty can save the game of cricket. Sachin Tendulkar and Murali Vijay had shown to the world that without compromising on the elegant and style of batting, sheer timing is sufficient rather than force.
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S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner
| 04 23 2010 16:15:18 +0000
Largely yes. The players play for the money. The organisers rip off the money from advertisements, tv times etc. satta experts gamble. You and I need either to shut up and watch tv or shut it off totally.
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V. Srinivas, Freelancer, Information Technology
| 04 23 2010 14:05:41 +0000
Yes they play only for money, day by day I losing interest in cricket. It seem to be like a gambling and everyone is money minded. By seeing this I feel all sports are played for money and we all are wasting our time by watching it, which is of no use for us. Thanks....
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Kiran Kumar Reddy, Business Analyst, SAP
| 04 23 2010 11:21:04 +0000
i think that cricket is just a gambling. Because we bid the players and they play only for money. nothing else
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maheshtiwary , Retail Store Manager, essar telecom
| 04 22 2010 13:34:26 +0000
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T-20 is the quickest version of cricket, a sport so far as the content and format is concerned. Gambling and betting is possible on any activity and this at best can be called aberration, if happening, The game T-20 is surely not gambling.
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Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India
| 04 27 2010 07:07:06 +0000
No, it's purely played with plans and any thing that is planned is not gambling. plans fail some times
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B.Mehernath , Marketing & Technical Head, Bondit Construction Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.
| 04 26 2010 11:56:00 +0000
Good argument Tanmay. Let us not blame the game itself for the follies of a select few who are into it only for the love of lucre. All sports have been conceived and developed keeping one thing in mind -- the recreational benefit it offers to the player, and the sheer pleasure/enjoyment it offers to the viewing public. It's corrupt modern practices and methods of running the game that has brought it disrepute. The need of the hour is to clean up the system, rather than shutting down the sport itself. We need effective controls, regulations, and implementation of laws to ensure the game does not die a slow death, nor does it provide an opportunity to make fast bucks for those who treat it more as a business and less as a sport.
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Prosenjit Purkait, Apparel/Garment Merchandising Manager, Fabstract Clothing India Pvt. Ltd.
| 04 24 2010 07:32:20 +0000
Dear Mahesh, cricket has been said to be a gentlemen game and adding the tag of gambling to it creates the bad impression. it is the source of entertainment with limited overs of time. Money do matters whether it is legally or illegally.
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kalpesh chouhan, Assistant manager, South Indian Bank
| 04 23 2010 14:37:11 +0000
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