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Letter to the BCCI

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dhillon28

U19 Debutant
The BCCI have finally saturated the market; they have now got to the point where they realise that the days 'fanatical following of Indian Cricket Idols' irrespective of quality of performance are long over. This Eng/India series has illustrated this perfectly....stadiums have been far from full, right throughout the series. Recent television viewership ratings for IPL have plummeted and therefore sponsorship deals will become less lucrative. So it looks like the BCCI which actually have to pull their finger out and make some cricketing decisions if they are to get their financial reward. Given the IPL, Champions League T20 and recurrent ODIs series being played the tour schedule is one variable that is not going to change. The only logical proposal is to divide the the increasing work load amongst a larger workforce i.e. have test/limited overs specialists. This would work for a number of reasons; firstly as with most players, Indian cricket players tend to excel at one form of the game as compared to the other. Secondly, India has the player pool to do this allows our larger pool of players to enjoy international player status, something that is not generally easy in a 1 billion population. Thirdly, it would greatly increase the probability that our players remain injury/mental fatigue free and help avoid cricketing disasters like this last English Summer. Fourthly it would help to regulate individual player power lend power back to administration, something that is often a problem in Indo/Pak region. Fifthly, it would allow the specialist from either format to play County/Sheffield Sheild/Big Bash/Friends Provident cricket as he would finally be able to find some time off from the international calendar and develop his skills in different international conditions and make some more money, which will only benefit Indian cricket. The only way this will work is if the BCCI increase the salaries given to test players and make this a similarly financially viable option for players as the limited overs game.

Dhillon28
 
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dhillon28

U19 Debutant
Limited overs specialists:

Raina
Yusuf
Yuvraj
Utthappa
Ashwin
Jadeja

Test Specialists:

Pujara
Mukund
Rahane
Rohit Sharma (t20 has ruined this quality prospect)
Harbhajan (has had his flight and length messed up by too much t20)
Zaheer
Ohja
Ishant Sharma (he just needs to find his length and stick to it which was ruined by too much ODI/t20s
Sehwag
Sachin

Both (rare exceptions)
Dhoni
Gambhir
Kohli
 
ganeshran

ganeshran

International Debutant
dhillon28 said:
The BCCI have finally saturated the market; they have now got to the point where they realise that the days 'fanatical following of Indian Cricket Idols' irrespective of quality of performance are long over. This Eng/India series has illustrated this perfectly....stadiums have been far from full, right throughout the series. Recent television viewership ratings for IPL have plummeted and therefore sponsorship deals will become less lucrative. So it looks like the BCCI which actually have to pull their finger out and make some cricketing decisions if they are to get their financial reward. Given the IPL, Champions League T20 and recurrent ODIs series being played the tour schedule is one variable that is not going to change. The only logical proposal is to divide the the increasing work load amongst a larger workforce i.e. have test/limited overs specialists. This would work for a number of reasons; firstly as with most players, Indian cricket players tend to excel at one form of the game as compared to the other. Secondly, India has the player pool to do this allows our larger pool of players to enjoy international player status, something that is not generally easy in a 1 billion population. Thirdly, it would greatly increase the probability that our players remain injury/mental fatigue free and help avoid cricketing disasters like this last English Summer. Fourthly it would help to regulate individual player power lend power back to administration, something that is often a problem in Indo/Pak region. Fifthly, it would allow the specialist from either format to play County/Sheffield Sheild/Big Bash/Friends Provident cricket as he would finally be able to find some time off from the international calendar and develop his skills in different international conditions and make some more money, which will only benefit Indian cricket. The only way this will work is if the BCCI increase the salaries given to test players and make this a similarly financially viable option for players as the limited overs game.

Dhillon28
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Though the cricket overkill over the last few months has indeed been tiring for both spectators and players, the BCCI's main income doesnt come from stadium entry fees. It is the television rights which are sold for a fortune. Though they were lower for IPL, the international matches are doing just fine in terms of TRPs
 
nsniks

nsniks

State Vice-Captain
Expecting Eden Gardens to be a sold out, they havent hosted an India match for a long time. As far as other games go, I dont know about other stadiums, but was checking bcci.tv for prices for today's match and tickets for todays match were really expensive so it wasnt a shock for me that it wasnt a full house.
 
flibbertyjibber

flibbertyjibber

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nsniks said:
Expecting Eden Gardens to be a sold out, they havent hosted an India match for a long time. As far as other games go, I dont know about other stadiums, but was checking bcci.tv for prices for today's match and tickets for todays match were really expensive so it wasnt a shock for me that it wasnt a full house.
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How much is really expensive?

Not a sly dig or anything just interested to know the cost in comparison to say the average monthly wage.
 
ganeshran

ganeshran

International Debutant
The minimum cost of a ticket is 1000 rupees. A movie ticket at a multiplex costs around 200 bucks (for comparison)
 
nsniks

nsniks

State Vice-Captain
flibbertyjibber said:
How much is really expensive?

Not a sly dig or anything just interested to know the cost in comparison to say the average monthly wage.
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Tickets that were available in Wankhede today was close to £150 and £180(Sachin Tendulkar stand), that is really expensive considering people would have attended good number of IPL matches
 
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ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
They have to bring the multi-nation ODI tournaments back. They got such serious following in good old days.

EDIT: And goes without saying, scrap the **** like IPL and CLT20. How much cricket can the poor guys play and watch!
 
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centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
8ankitj said:
They have to bring the multi-nation ODI tournaments back. They got such serious following in good old days.

EDIT: And goes without saying, scrap the **** like IPL and CLT20. How much cricket can the poor guys play and watch!
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yes, it'll generate more interest. But no india v srilanka games.

edit- india should've played a triangular tournament with eng and wi, instead of playing them separately.
 
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ganeshran

ganeshran

International Debutant
It is stupid on part of BCCI to schedule games on the eve of Diwali. They just seem happy to cramp as many games as possible giving scant regard to player and viewer fatigue
 
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intcricket

U19 12th Man
I read a user above wishing Eden to be packed. Apparently, only 5,900 odd tickets have been sold out of the 40,000 that went public.
 
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intcricket

U19 12th Man
Yes. When even the most passionate supporters of cricket in India don't buy the tickets, you know something is wrong.
 
Arjun

Arjun

Cricketer Of The Year
About separating the Test, ODI and T20I teams, it should be done smartly, otherwise we'll see a whole lot of half-bakes, misfits and stragglers just to fill the teams and give the frontline players a little rest. This will result in poor team dynamics and they'll struggle to win consistently. Already we're seeing a relatively poor and underdone Indian team in ODIs this time. They should pick different players across formats, but stick to a group of thirty each year, and not stray beyond that.

  • Test specialists: Tendulkar, Laxman, Dravid, Harbhajan
  • More than 20 overs: Zaheer, Ishant, Praveen, Rahane, Tiwary, Pujara, Pankaj Singh, Umesh
  • ODI specialists: Varun Aaron, Laxmiratan Shukla
  • Limited-overs specialists: Vijay, Uthappa, Raina, Yusuf, Irfan, Vinay, Abdulla, Bipul Sharma
  • T20I specialists: Ojha, Aravind, Yo Mahesh, Anand Rajan, Luv Ablish
  • Cross-format: Sehwag, Gambhir, Dhoni, Ashwin, Rohit Sharma, Dhawan, Kohli, Mishra, Jaffer
 
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