Old bottle new wine

While Indian Paisa league is entering a crucial stage with most of the teams struggling to stay in the competition, Controversies dont seem to be leaving the stadium so fast. With KKR fined for the third time in the row for not sticking to the schedule timing, It seems the team owner found a new way to save cost. Send five of the players home. The explanation given “ We want to concentrate on the core team as of now since the competition is entering in to a crucial stage.”
Nicely put Mr. Khan since Mr.Ganguly is in no mood to change his ways and money is just a simple mean to pay for all the follies that occur on the field. I wonder what Mr. Khan would do in case his team was slapped with a fine of bowling two overs more or the runs scored in the last two overs of his team deducted from the total score making the target much more achievable for the Daredevils.
It has not happened for the first time that team management have sent the non playing squads home with or without the cash incentives. Although most of the teams including KKR have promised to pay the non player in full ,It seems their promises are going to end with the IPL.
IPL started with the hope of discovering new talent on the field giving the younger players an opportunity to play with the international players. In the beginning everything seemed hunky dory. Player appreciating advice from the senior players but when the franchises started to realize that they were not going to secure their investments ,Cost cutting started to come in to play. The best way was to send the liabilities home.
It is strange that a dream of playing with the big league for most of the players ended in mid season. The tragedy is they cannot show their disappointment for the fear of getting banned from first class cricket for ever. While Shoib Akhtar faces the wrath back home trying to prove he still has got the game in his veins, it is sad to see that such a fine player can be gone for ever after this IPL.
If a player of his status can be reprimanded for the words he spoke, it is understood what will happen to these small time players who are trying to make it big on the indian Premier league.

While the franchises struggle to put together the best possible team ,it is these players who face the brunt. While they are shunted out of the accommodations and sit on the bench while the core team practices. Since most of the core teams comprise of retired players or players about to retire ,it is sad to see these old horses getting payed ten or fifteen times more then these youngsters who's job it seems is to fetch drinking water for team and get locker room ready for the knight to return. It wont be strange to find a young player cleaning the toilets soon since the team management would definitely try to save costs of hiring a janitor in the name of cost cutting. The reason given “ Players can learn a lot from their seniors loo habit.

In one of the other camps of RCB ,one of the most respected players of India aka Rahul Dravid is being treated like a nobody . Rahul who was considered to be “ Mr. Wall and Mr. Dependable” is being charged of being partial to his friends like Sunil Joshi who was bought for 30000 USD. I say that all his decisions were wrong while selecting the team then why blame him for just one of the players. Its not like he is not being blamed for the rest of the team. It is nice to see that Mr. Rahul will finally realize that cricket is no longer the gentleman's game it used to be and it was high time he also learned from his team owner who is trying so desperately to make him quit. I say man dont leave the team and rather get fired . At least you will get thrice the amount what you are getting for one season.

These are crucial times and while most of the team players have faced hardships doing justice to their fat pay cheques .Question is whether all of it is worth it. Most of the players really dont need to take shit from nobodies of cricket. Has money become so important for them that they are willing to let go of their self esteems. What I have realized is that everybody had a selfish motive involved in this game. While players suffer , Pitch curators struggle and Franchises count their loses ,the only winner seems to be the audience who is sitting at home watching the matches from every possible angle in the comforts of air conditioning and beer. Who wants to pay 6500 Rs for it when you can get it for free. As for the Plasma screens ,you can buy one for the cost of taking four persons to watch the match in Shitty conditions with no drinking water,walking a mile just to reach the stadium and being hassled by Cops who are more interested in taking away your binoculars and Cameras as if these were a security threat to the Franchises monetary gains.