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Old 03-04-2007, 07:36 AM in reply to vvvrulz's post starting "I think part of the problem is the over..."
Django Django is offline
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The problem lies with BCCI. Making money is its only focus. Development of cricket and cricketers in the country is totally ignored. Agreed that cricketers like Gavaskar, Vishwanath, Hazare, Dravid and Tendulkar, all top class players, came up from the existing system. But then now cricket has changed and is no longer a game. To succeed the cricketers have to be clinical and robot-like - like the Australians. And to achieve this the governing body has to
take appropriate measures. Loot at what the Australian cricket board did in the mid-eighties when the Australian cricket team was at rock bottom. Can anyone even imagine a professional approach from the BCCI?

I doubt very much whether anything will change even after this fiasco.

The media is also responsible for making "super-humans" out of these cricketers. Dhoni is a classic example. A few runs against weak opponents on slow/low Indian pitches and the media started comparing him to Gilchrist...

Last edited by Django : 03-04-2007 at 09:14 AM.
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