Monday, June 22, 2009

Commercializing Cricket - T20

All the drama and action came to an end of this year's T20 world cup. Congrats to Pakistan on winning this time. But, now comes a big question to my mind - where is T20 leading cricket to?

We had world cup in 2007 (T20), IPL and then Worldcup in 2009(T20). We also start hearing that there will be one more T20 world cup in 2010. Before that we will have Champions League in 2009. With all these, where are we heading in terms of sports? How many players got injured this season? how many more yet to know about their injuries?

Leaving this behind, T20 is more viewed as an entertainer than a game. Why do our players need to play such an extensively pressured game? Dont we have enough entertaining channels to get life lived than extending the same to games like Cricket? How many of the viewers will be now interested to watch Test and ODI cricket?

Seriously, T20 had become a money machine for all those who view it commercially. This is game and this should not be the case. We saw how our national games vanished from the top list. It was Kabaddi, Hockey and now it should not be Cricket. We even saw a player like Sania loosing more matches than often. She was ranking among top 50 few months back. But what's her position now? This should not happen to our Cricketers. These players will definitely play too many shots in T20 and also falter in TESTs and ODIs.

This should be stopped.

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