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 considering Sachin’s demonic status in India’s cricketing world and how the little boy from Jharkhand has shot to fame and money like a nuclear fueled rocket. Remember all of these are estimates from the market and there is no way a cricketer would actually come out and disclose the amount of money he makes by the side, so you can safely add a cool 40% more to this for each of these guys on all the silent deals that pass by.

5 crores in spending 2 hours to a day in a shoot for about once every 3 months is whopping. In contrast, on a lighter note, how much do we bloggers who write about these guys day-in-and-out and the game make? Zilch or pittance that we would be better off begging out of a railway station.

And to think of the fact that Harbhajan singh wanted to buy a Hummer out of his IPL money huh?

Just to put the record straight, I have no problem in cricketers making money… all I wish is these advertisers want to consider putting less than a tenth into us bloggers who are actually concerned about the game and write about it.

On yet another lighter note, I found on a discussion forum, an overzealous fan that claimed the following.

Bradman never had to face quicks like Sharma and Irfan Pathan. He wouldn’t of lasted a ball against those 2, not to mention a spinner like Sehwag.

I do not know whether it was his sarcasm but whatever it was, it killed me for twenty minutes laughing my way off into the hospital for stitches.