IPL Player Auction : Dhoni, Ishant, Symonds roll in cash

Originally Posted by Agnel

Just wait and watch you all.
20-20 is the game

Money is gonna pour in
we are gonna have fun in the evening...

bang bang cricket

Originally Posted by Private Ryan

This whole thing is gonna fail badly, just like ICL.. Ppl want to watch international matches..not some city vs city match...no one has tht mu7ch time to bunk office and college to go and watch city matches..

It's true that ppl want to see the big Tests, that is where cricket will always be the purest form of the game, but the city v city comp could be seen in the same light as County cricket in UK and Sheffield Shield in Australia, (or whatever they call it these days, I'm not too interested in sponsor titles). There was a time when Sheffield Shield would draw crowds over 50,000 per match, nowadays, there's more ground staff & tv personnel at a match than spectators, (or so it seems). I reckon this comp will give a greater opportunity to our younger players who don't always get near to making national squads.


BCCI is filling up its coffers fater than ever b4 by making fool of those rich idiots... i can only imagine what will be left with the owners after paying the cricketing star's enormous bills, and paying bcci a good percentage of the collection... advertising and promotion is their only means to gain something for themselves. But it remains to be seen if the advertisers wud be willing to shell out millions for some stupid city match..

BCCI has seriously done a 'Heads i win, tails u lose' with those obscenely rich freaks. Time will come and they'll understand.

Possibly, this is the case, but everything these days is about corporations providing services, where they think ppl will pay for that service... Fortunately for everyone, the sub-continent has become THE bastion for the game and it is from here, that cricket will either increase in strength or fall by the wayside.