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RE: English Cricket
Yes I may have short of understanding the context in which Rambo's remarks are made. I am sorry about that. But nonetheless whatever be their remarks either from England players, media, ECB or even the readers on this blog in the past, that still does not take away any cricket player in the world to play for money as I was comparing any equivalent sport in Europe or USA/Canada(where I am settled now since many years ) where players of any sport play for money. whosoever made the comment in the past about loyalty could have made out of lack of perspective and if there is an opportunity which they see now to make money, why should it be equated to prostitution?? That belittles the cricket game and I am against that hence my above comment. It is but natural that some English players would have supported ECB backed Stanford trophy games but that does not take away their right to change their view and you cannot call it double standards. Everyone cricket player has a right to exploit any opportunity which was missed by him in the past.
How do we know that 3 years from now IPL will be the best or only tournament and also in the same form as it exists today ? I am also against cricket players banned by BCCI or ICC for playing in the ICL tournament. I am sorry but that is treating cricket players like slaves or bonded labour. Newzealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh are the main teams hurt due to this monoploistic policy against ICL> Cricket is a game and a professional game now unlike in the past and people need to change with the changing times.
I predict "DEMISE OF TEST CRICKET" in few years and so be it if the viewers want to watch and enjoy only ODIs and 20-20. After I left India in 1991, I have seen that in North Amnerica people would dread at the thought of playing or even watching a game for 5 days and have a "DRAW". That was what the reality is . This is why the game was never popular in many countries but the ODIS and 20-20 is drawing interest from countries like China apart from Canada and USA who will also eventually pick up T20 . Why should shorter runs of cricket game be a concern for Englich cricket ??? or anyone for that matter? Why is playing for money being equated to prostitution ? why don't we say the same for any other sport ?
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