Hayden's Remarks Is it IPL?
I have been comin back to the influence of IPL in each of the actions I see in the cricket field now. And with the recent comments of hayden in radio I again think oh IPL!.
My connection. Indians generally paid low money for Australians. They paid a lot for symmonds. Indicates pure marketing to me. I cannot think ponting is less important in Twenty 20 than Symmonds. But somehow symmonds gets paid much higher. May be it is pure logic. Will the player be available might have led them to it. But then why pay less for McGrath when he will be available.
It seems to be more like who will pull crowds in India. Today symmonds will pull the crowd for all his notoreity. So he is priced higher. If they could have gotten bhajji and symmonds to play together they would have done it for no cricketing reasons whatsoever.
Probably Hayden realised that he needs to be popular among Indians his new bosses. How does he get popular by bring up something that will turn their attention towards him. This is business. Indian cos wont rid of him rather pay him more to ensure he plays. Afterall isnt it great to see them serve the interests of the same people whom they faulted in the first place.
Slowly money is going to drive cricket world crazy towards India the same way success drove cricket world crazy towards Australia. Either you praise them and be friends or make it a point to take it across them to establish popularity. If Saurav/Smith are on one side of the equation with Australia, Laxman is on the other side. Yet all of them are popular for those very reasons.
Same way Lee tries to find his popularity by befriending and playing against the Indians while symmonds and hayden try to play with words and raise their notoreity. There is some strategic alignment going on and all the people in the world are showing their readiness to fall down.
My connection. Indians generally paid low money for Australians. They paid a lot for symmonds. Indicates pure marketing to me. I cannot think ponting is less important in Twenty 20 than Symmonds. But somehow symmonds gets paid much higher. May be it is pure logic. Will the player be available might have led them to it. But then why pay less for McGrath when he will be available.
It seems to be more like who will pull crowds in India. Today symmonds will pull the crowd for all his notoreity. So he is priced higher. If they could have gotten bhajji and symmonds to play together they would have done it for no cricketing reasons whatsoever.
Probably Hayden realised that he needs to be popular among Indians his new bosses. How does he get popular by bring up something that will turn their attention towards him. This is business. Indian cos wont rid of him rather pay him more to ensure he plays. Afterall isnt it great to see them serve the interests of the same people whom they faulted in the first place.
Slowly money is going to drive cricket world crazy towards India the same way success drove cricket world crazy towards Australia. Either you praise them and be friends or make it a point to take it across them to establish popularity. If Saurav/Smith are on one side of the equation with Australia, Laxman is on the other side. Yet all of them are popular for those very reasons.
Same way Lee tries to find his popularity by befriending and playing against the Indians while symmonds and hayden try to play with words and raise their notoreity. There is some strategic alignment going on and all the people in the world are showing their readiness to fall down.
posted by Devanathan at 8:51 PM
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