Dhoni overtakes sachin as the highest paid in the endorsement field

For somebody like Sachin Tendulkar, who has played cricket for close to 20 years and the other, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who just seemed like yesterday to me when he made his debut, has gone on to overtake Sachin Tendulkar as the highest paid Indian cricketer in terms of endorsements, is quite staggering to me. Dhoni now makes a whopping Rs. 3.5-5 crore per year in endorsements only which is marginally better than sachin who makes Rs. 3-4 crores annually. The difference is marginal but not to me...

IPL: Rajasthan Royals wins the inaugural IPL

Seriously they have! Because how meaningless in context are these so-called knockout rounds in the name of Semi-finals and finals are in the IPL! Let's face it... In the case of a tournament having a large number of teams, say the world cup, where it is impossible for all the teams to play significant number of matches against each other considering a tournament that has to be spectator friendly, cannot go on for months. Hence it makes sense for the officials to divide them into groups and the l...

IPL: Why did the Deccan Chargers fail?

The clear pre-tournament favourites for many was the most disappointing team in the tournament. A batting line-up filled with explosive stars like Gilchrist, Gibbs, Symonds and Afridi was supposedly the sure-fire hit for twenty-20 cricket, yet they failed miserably. To be fair, on another year, the same people like Afridi and Gibbs could well have taken apart every opposition to boring sports psychologists. But then, the catch with these guys has been the big tag called "inconsistency". Gibbs...

Israel to play India A… Stirring the hornet’s nest alright

If reports from some of the Israeli based newspapers have to be believed, Israel is all set to play a few one day internationals with India A. Jonty Rhodes would be giving his valuable inputs to the Israel cricketing youth as the mentor-coach and would be participating in the 3 ODIs. The Israel team would comprise of many Jewish cricketers across the world including India! While the catch here is that this is an an event to celebrate the country's 60th anniversary and that is why this could s...

A good read on T6 cricket and its corporate side

I stumbled upon this lovely post by K.Parthasarathi on his blog, which gave me fond memories of my childhood days playing cricket in my colony. The only difference I see in today's kids is how monopoly of the game has caught on even with them. Read Partha's post on the corporate side of T6 cricket. Cheers