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By: sportsmediaz

sportsmediaz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:49:03 +0000

Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before!

By: fzuberi

fzuberi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:11:31 +0000

True words Mr. Yasir…
“The day that cricket died…”
but the fact of the matter is…whatever is taken up by commercialism…eventually dies…atleast in spirit…
anyways…nicely done…
keep it up

By: Ammar Yasir

Ammar Yasir — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:21:06 +0000

In that case Saleem we are not getting anything. Not more then 5 to 6 players of Pakistan are playing there. Money is an essential part of professional life but you wont change the rules/face of that profession just because you are making more money by doing so. If you take the soul out from a body or take the fish out of the water;none will survive.

By: Saleem Khan

Saleem Khan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:44:57 +0000

Dear Ammar,

money is now every where. We can’t proceed with money. It has very strong relationship with sports also. They sprots which gives more money is attracted by more players. Hockey lost charm in Pakistan just because of money. Players are unable to fulfill their monetary requirements so they left it. Every youngster is running after Cricket because it gives million and million in just couple of years.

Secondly, its also beneficial for countries. They gets enormous amount of revenues from its promotions and adds. You industry can’t produce and export as much as one Sport event collects money from media. Sports is game of business and money. Without money, No sports.

By: Ammar Yasir

Ammar Yasir — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:17:13 +0000

@ Johann

With all due respect captain. Bollywood and Cricket dont go hand in hand. you cant combine a night club and a cricket stadium.As I have said before, i am not against improvements and changes but when money becomes the only reason the spirit vanishes.

By: Johann

Johann — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:56:40 +0000

Hi guys,
You are talking the language of the Britishers. They didnot join initially and now they are asking a texan oil billionare to fund one of their own league in Britain.
What all you say is what traditionalists said about oneday cricket when kerry packer started it all.
Cricket is getting more demanding with people expecting skill of the heighest order and no lazy 5 day picnic here. It is for the FITTEST OF THE LOT AND also INNOVATORS.
THE GAIN IS SOME OF YOUNG NAMES WHO COULD NEVER EVER IMAGINE the likes of Ponting, gibbs,kallis,Muralidharan rubbing sjhoulders with them and teaching them is the greatest gain. The brilliant centry by bredndon macullum in opening game put everythign in proper perspective and the old foggies were exposed
Ofcourse those silicon impkanted babes are for the voyeuritistic indian male who also come to watch Sani Mirza without knowing what is forrehand or halfvolley.They pay and Money counts here.Symonds commanded more money than opoting while Ishant sharma commanded more than other famous names and merit decides the money.
We in India love this with all show and pomp and we miss Afridi and Shoaib and Misab.

By: karachiwali

karachiwali — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:47:26 +0000

I might be one of the conservative people who would like their cricket to be long but skillful. With the advent of Twenty20, I expected things to shorten up and talent to take a back seat but IPL has damaged even this form of cricket to a great deal and has transformed into something completely different. If you remember the opening cermony, people were mostly interested in seeing SRK perform rather than cricketers! Although IPL is bound to help make people a lot money, I feel said for badly it will ruin things for real cricket, i.e. Test Cricket