Monday, April 2, 2007

It's better to burnout than fade away (story of Indian Cricket team)

Since everybody in India is burning with cricket fever, I think its good time to generate some food for fun to cool them downJ . I feel, India loosing match was equal fun or rather more fun & consistent with past. I mean they might have lost anyways but after wasting some more time or winning would have been even more surprising; I feel even many Indian team players would have got surprised. In general people say grand failure is better than lousy success because what’s charm without word *grand*.
Many companies felt that they lost golden opportunity to advertise their crapy products. I feel the opportunity is still there, but it’s shifted from sports channels to news channels. I mean people are watching news channels more instead of sports channels.
In fact the BCCI should ask money from news channel for generating such spicy news. And news channels will also do not require looking out for real news so it’s good for them. In fact they might pay more money than match fixers to Indian cricket for loosing cricket matches in stylish manner.
Sometimes these news channels suggest very serious but funny ideas. On one of news channel anchor suggested why not give variable salaries to players. But I am not sure about at what level. Well one extreme would to be to pay X amount for scoring a run and taking back Y amount for one dot ball and not paying anything after scoring 100runs (centuries are for personal record). And same can be extended to catches and bolls. Or BCCI might like to keep one empire to score match fees for very players. I feel this way many players might end up paying BCCI more that what they would earn & so this will be another revenue source for BCCI. You might be surprised that why will players play for nothing. Well answer lies in advertisements: p

Indian cricket players/stars keep going and coming in limelight so often that it’s very costly for advertising companies to create aids than paying money to sports channel.
I think they should make general advertisements that apply to any player and just stick the photos of players in the background & replace just photos as required. That way they might save lots of money & also that way they can show players aid on the day he is star.
This assuming Indian players are starts for a day or so.

I am very sympathetic about captain of Indian team who is after all responsible for random performers. I mean performance of our team players varies so much that any strategy would fail. Or so to say outcome of any consistent planning applied on random variables will also be random. So from that point of view captain is responsible for random variables (hardest job on earth). Looking at captain’s current face & condition many people would be thanking GOD that they are not captain of Indian team. You also need to be quite daring and adventurous to be part of Indian cricket team. I mean consistently loosing so many matches but still keep coming in public. They are also very good action players, I mean hitting sixes and fours. Honestly speaking Indians care more about action in cricket (six and fours) than winning the match. I also feel that Indian players are so good at giving surprises and used to get surprised (from their co-players) that they can easily direct mind blowing suspense movies. At last, Indian team players are not that random; I mean if one plays bad all play bad; so there is at least one consistency. So from that point of view captain can always plan quick departure and grand loss to generate spicy news and save people’s time & also their own time to do make them ready for aids. Other good point of Indian cricket is that it provides two types of job opportunities, first, a player with cricket team (very difficult and adventurous) second as a criticizer with news channels (very easy and safe). If you do not know how to play cricket but you like to analyze (or mostly criticize it) philosophically. You will always be safe as cricket criticizer because of timely & consistent loosing of Indian team. Most important, for being cricket criticizer you need to be a philosopher not a cricket expert. You should not have any good feeling for players.

Disclaimer One:
This piece of text is all my imagination (obviously enhanced by Indian cricket team’s surprises & adventures). It’s pure fiction & if you still feel nervous after reading then it’s because of your under confidence in our National Indian Team. I am really sad about that.

Disclaimer Two:
I feel we should take cricket as a game not on our egos. And we should not take winning or losing on ego and that will solve many problems. We should not expect too much from our player & they are all human and humans do mistakes. I personally do more mistakes than being correct. I really feel so bad about stressed Indian team players. I watched match till 3AM in night but then we lost but I never said anything bad about our team players. I am sorry for hurting anyone’s feelings. Hope you had some fun. Best of luck to our Indian team for coming matches. This was not fiction.