Its the players that bring in the fans, it's the Indian cricket players that have made Indian cricket what it is, and board rakes in all the moolah due to them. BCCI is doing it's best to kill the cricketers and the sport in India. This is to be expected when politicians rule cricket India as their feifdom. BCCI wants Indian cricket team to emulate Australians, however the Board itself is not even trying to run cricket intelligently. They brought in Chappell, who destroyed the basic fabric of Team India's unity and see what happened. By denying endorsements to players board is making cricket a less motivating factor for the players. Fans come to see Tendulkar or a Ganguly, they come to watch Sehwag. So if board gets Uthhapa or Gambhir, the fans will not reach stadium gates. The sponsorships that board is receivng will diminish. Let's face it, the truth is that in a icon deprived country like India, our cricketers are greatest living Icons and stars, and much more, they are our heros. By denying their due money, BCCI is being foolhardy. Their retention of Dravid as captain also reeks of insanity. You can leaf through the archives of this blog and see that Dravid was never high in my esteem. He hates his seniors, and like a jealous cow he is out to hurt them below the belt by denyingTendulkar the money he deserves. Less said about Ravi Shastri the better, well he was agent of Tendulkar and earned crores in commission, now that Tendulkar didn't avail of Shastri's services when the time came for renewal of Tendulkar's contract, Shastri was peeved. He has become cricket manager with one point agenda, to finish Tendulkar to avenge his loss of crores in agents fee... come to hink of it, BCCI was claiming that do not want to negotiate with Agents on endorsements issue, while making another agent a full time cricket manager! If I had the money i would have gone ahead and created a better system, maybe a new control board, Subhash Goel has thoughtof it, god bless his venture.
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