IPL-The Latest Victory
submitted 3 months 29 days 6 hours ago by: Iola : 3 commentsI love the Indians. One clever nation indeed. They make all the right moves on the world chessboard and all their plans are long-term plans.
The other day I was reading that when India developed its nuclear technology secretly and caused much anger on sorta 'abuse of nuclear technology advanced to them for peaceful purposes', USA's stance was that ' They are a responsible state with advanced nuclear technology'. Followed by cooperation of both the countries. Even when they resist them, they think twice about it and then resist them politely.
We talk about the need to spend more on defense as a deterrent to the weapons and armament that they keep producing. Oh, I love them for that too.
It has become an arms race which India can so cleverly use to make us spend our money otherwise and keep the superiority element alive. We always develop something after they have developed it. The superiority is in the thinking, the technological advancement and we feel that we are strong after we have produced a cruise or ballistic missile like theirs. Unbelievable!
World owners of Steel Industry, Financial Giants, ICC Haven, branching out everywhere, these are one great people.
What is the latest idea that they came up with to mark themselves out?
INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE. Name 8 times. Gather a good number of players that would sell. Put up a show and the main theme: Teach and train your young Indians through this exposure- each team can only have 4 international players playing at one time while the rest will be Indians.
Bravo!
Who is going to think of beating this one now in Pakistan?
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Totally in agreement with you there IOLA. Indians know their business well and they sure know how and when to cash on some opportunity. By bringing film icons into IPL, they have proved themselves to be the uncrowned masters of selling their brands. The fan following and big bucks are all promising a bright future for IPL.
On the other side, it has all the potential to lure national cricket heroes of other countries to prefer IPL over their own national team and is a potential threat to the international cricket. Especially with reference to Pakistan, whoever is dropped out from the National Cricket Team for a certain match or period, he now has a standing offer to play for IPL. So there you go. With big sums of money, all the cream would be prefering to play for IPL and National Team would be the second choice. If not now, then later. But money will attract all of them for sure.
NFL, NBA, NHL, etc. are proof that sport does not depend on nationalism for popularity and nor does an excess of money degrade it
I did not say that sport will be neglected or that money will degrade it. All I said is that National Cricket (especially of Pakistan, which is both controversial and bureaucratic) has the potential to be affected by bigger bucks following the IPL.