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Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

:D Only if you become President of Pakistan Cricket Fans’ Association!

The limit to the patience - The fans seem to have a lot of resistance in the subcontinent. But Hockey had a dedicated audience earlier as I mentioned. History has shown gaking fans for granted can be done only at your own peril.

In this incident Pawar (the politician that he is and realises the value of image) - got a family special seat or some thing. I am not aware of the exact news. But there is a lot to be done. You and I can write a thesis on it I am sure Zainub. We haven’t even talked about board politics, selections and such issues.

Splendid write up, the situation sounds very similar to the one in Pakistan. Here too the facilities for fans inside most leading international stadiums are deplorable to put it mildly.

Part of the ground at the NSK has no seats, where there are seats they are often broken or surrounded by dirty water; in Pindi the stadium has no roof so in the summers as a fan you can look forward to 7 hours of intense heat if you’re planning to go and see a one-day game.

In other cities, particularly like Peshawar, going inside the stadium is often the most tasking job of them all. In the recent India-Pakistan tour hundreds of original ticket holders it was reported were denied entry because the stadium was already full, in a significant proportion with fake ticket holders.

And did I mention the state of the bathrooms? Or indeed what happened to some of my friends after eating the food that the was being sold at the stadium?

The problems Pratyush highlighted about ticket sales also hold true here. It remains a mystery to me why little things such as making sure tickets are being sold at more then just one outlet for a big city that appear a matter of comman sense and logic to the fans them selves are never realised by the powers to be.

I guess in the insane world of sub-continental cricket boards it is too much to ask if you are expecting even something as trivial as a good return for the siginificant amount of money you have payed to get to the cricket, let alone demand something like “respect”…

One of the commentators here mentioned the fans don’t always display the behaviour the ought to (I’d reffer more to violent crowd behaviour in this respect than people booing some one) but you might argue on the flip side that such behaviour is enticed by the authorities poor treatment of the fans in the first place.

There is, after all, a limit to everyone’s patience, and some fans are less patient then the others. Of course I am not defending people who deem it fit to put the players’ lives in danger and take out their frustrations on the Cricket Board’s short comings/the team’s performance/whatever on the players but it would no doubt if more consideration was given to the fan’s plight.

The fans who gut hurt in that inccident reported in the Rediff have my sympathies and I hope they get well soon. I don’t suppose the BCCI has released any statements experessing their regrest at the inncident, let alone an apology on behalf of the police, but I did see a full length report in the morning’s papers about a BCCI official explaining how much money they were going to earn by TV contracts signed for such and such events…some things as the saying goes never change.

I do not grudge cricketers making money. The life of a sportsperson is short compared to people in other professions. The charities - some people do it off the record without publicity like Tendulkar. However, there is a lot more which can be done. The ‘image’ can be used for raising awareness much to causes which impact society and this should be exploited as much as possible. The Murali and Warne’s efforts after the Tsunami show how much impact sports people can make in this regard.

And, why should we hold such respect ,for them? Do we hold immense respect and worship all the people who manufacture everything for us, clean the roads, do we worship each and every woman, man and child in India (because of whom our country is running, functioning and developing), the way we do to our cricketers?

Also, Tendulkar is one of those richest Indian now, crorepati, I would gues. But, he can’t pay taxes for a car that he won, and has to request the Indian Government!!!!!!!!!! Does he think that all those government money come from taxes (even taxes paid by many middle-class people)? What sort of lesson is he teaching the younger ones those who look upto him as their idol???

Saurav Ganguly is another of those filthy rich people - his family own the largest press in WB; then, he earned god knows how many millions through the game; yet, when he has to find a land for his cricket academy, he has to request the government so that he can get it for free!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recently, I was reading an article (sorry I didn’t save the link) where some charities were lamenting that foreign cricketers come to help them; while Indian cricketers charge fees to charities when they visit them for appearances. If that is true, then it is the most disgusting thing.

Also, how much hours they spend doing any sort of charities - I am not talking about appearances and writing a check once in a while, but about really going down on their hands and knees to do charities. Well, they are busy playing cricket right!? Well, what about when it is off-season? They can find all the time to do ads, but no time to do charities…????

For me they deserve what they get because they do not voice opinions against lack of standards meted out to them. As the saying goes while explaining democracy - “A country gets the leaders it deserves.”

Indian fans have no right to behave irrationally like they do. But that does not justify the torturous treatment meted out to them as far as I am concerned.

In football, if there is crowd trouble they vacate the entire stadium, and the match resumes. Or sometimes the club/country is punished so heavily that they wont get any matches in near future. Does BCCI do any such thing?
Or can it afford to do any such thing?

The problems the Indian fans are facing is of their own making. Though BCCI people are a bunch of jokers, we cant blame them in this regard. The facilities what the indisciplined cricket fan is getting is more than what he/she deserves!

Satya: Thanks. Speaking of taxes, most sporting bodies are exempt from taxes but the BCCI is being asked to pay taxes for the last few years because they allegedly do not fill all criterias. The amount being asked is huge. The case is being fought as of now. Will be interesting to see what happens. I do get the feeling that it is indeed the ‘BCCI Cricket Team’ rather than an Indian Cricket Team.

You are absolutely spot on KL. I have felt the same myself. The Indians can and should voice their individual and collective voices and things which irk them. We take a lot of crap which is a poor and docile way - some thing I am not comfortable with at all.

The most puzzling thing about BCCI is that why it is not registered in India but in one tax haven. Why it wants to save tax while a common citizen of India earning 10k per month pays tax ? If BCCI is not registered in India then how come it controls the national team of India or is it BCCI cricket team?

Can you give you any evidence of this?

And, what is BCCI doing? It is thinking of how to hold the matches in some off-shore lands so that it can reap off some 212 million US dollar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!