Indian Cricket -Ad sponsors influencing team selection

There exists a player-advertiser nexus in Indian cricket. BCCI (Board of control for Cricket in India) President, Sharad Pawar, conceded indirectly in a TV interview on 27th April. He said:"Young players have submitted this to him for his information and an unofficial complaint has also been lodged with the board stating that terms of contract of a certain player/s was linked to the actual time he spent on the crease.Not only this, many advertisers are giving such contracts to a group of players i.e. if they spent more time on the crease the more money they will get.

It may be a news to the Mr. Pawar,who is a politician par excellence, but Indian Public and some well wishers of cricket have been echoing this since long. The Board's members may feign ignorance of such things but people know that they are not only in knowledge of such things but also a willing or unwilling partners in the money game that has jeopardized the careers of many budding cricketers.


The board has asked all the players to submit copies of the contract for perusal.If you go through the contents of my earlier posts on the subject and ex-skipper Patudi's reaction in an interview with CNN-IBN , you will find a clear evidence in support of the nexus.

And the support being given to this nexus by the country's so called top news barons such as Times of India is shocking. They are bound to defend money rather than cricket. Even good things initiated in the matter are ridiculed in the name of moral policing. It seems that the sole custodians of democracy and morals are the advertisers and their agents and not the public who pays dearly in terms of money and time for seeing the players perform at least like a player and not a model. In fact, anything incomprehensible may be defending by moneyed acquiring the saintly posture of deregulation in the name indiscipline.

Many young players careers have been nipped in the bud by the sports agents and contributors duly financed by the vested interests .