It was great to see the sports pages of Newspapers, headlines in TV News channels and home page of most sports web-sites carrying the 25 years of WorldCup Victory celebrations cowered. The victorious team is traveling to London to auction the golden bat with autographs from the winning team members and the proceeds will be distributed among them. I am sure it will help few of the cricketers who have not been economically doing that well after their playing days.
BCCI needs to applauded for the work they have done before and after the victory, the board used the frenzy and innovated ways to popularize the game and win sponsorship deals. We are very fortunate to have such wonderful structured system in place, domestic tournaments,school level tournaments,world class stadiums, pension for former domestic and international players are all great things to have happened for game of cricket in India and the main reason for all this is the WorldCup victory. My Salute to the BCCI management over the years to have made this happen, i could point two former presidents who i feel had contributed immensely in this, 1) I.S Bindra was the first person to sell cricket and innovate ides to bring in money to the board, 2) Dalmiya, there has been lot of allegations against him but one can not dismiss the amount of good things he has done to the domestic cricket by selling international cricket, he implemented the pension scheme for the players, he made sure that the state associations get a share on the revenues generated by the board. Even now we hear that former hockey,basketball etc internationals live in poverty but i don't think that's the case with even the domestic players as for as cricket is concerned.
On the other side, 25 years have gone after we have won the WorldCup and still waiting... We have had few great cricketers in Azharuddin, Sachin, Dravid,Ganguly,Kumble,Srinath etc but we could not win the WorldCup for so long. The last worldcup debacle proved that team building is something which can not happen overnight with high profile coach's but need to happen over a period of time with good leaders who could bring the best out of the given players and stay level headed. BCCI has take more proactive steps like, getting the game to the village and rural areas rather than the city's to build great teams, the NCA is great start and we should be seeing results in few years from now.
As expected it was one sided games in the AsiaCup day 1. Australia beats West Indies by over 80+ runs in the 1st ODI with star performance from the IPL find Shaun Marsh scoring 84 in his first international match.
Euro-2008 :- First semi-finals between Germany and Turkey should be a great contest.
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