Even before some established legends and those in the making join the battle for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, another battle is being forced. The one between the Board of Corrupt Comedians of India and Constipated Ass****s. Down Under the constipation disease spreads like that wild fire around Sydney sometime ago. This fire has already engulfed some commentators Down Under (pun intended) and perhaps the real issue for them is reflected by the headline for this article.
Fact of the matter is that this is not a battle for new world order but that for some virtual money. It is just BCCI's IPL responding to the ICL threat. Without going further into the genesis of these two cricket leagues, I dare say that both ICL and IPL have got their market analysis wrong and are therefore bound to flop miserably. The corrupt comedians and the media baron both saw big moolah to be harvested in a country where cricket is a religion. Likewise for the players, some current and some retired an opportunity was presented to make some easy money doing what they love to do or did. If the administrators think that the average Indian cricket fan is going to fall for this and be taken for a ride with some circus cricket for a carrot, they are hugely mistaken. Why? Just look at the success of the domestic tournaments. How many people follow them? How many actually pay to watch them? Well, if the revenue is coming from ads then the joke is on the sponsors. In any case, if Airtel thought that a bucktoothed and a pompous SRK will make me switch service providers they are the biggest losers. All I do is switch channel every time I see him.
So all you constipated scribes and ass....s Down Under...hold your fire. Some stupid circus will not change cricket. If they have nothing else to do, let your cricketers make some easy money rather than play the proverbial dog in the manger. Relax, wait and watch. As for the real change in 'world order', I leave you with an opening quote from the movie Apocalypto, coincidentally a movie made by an Australian -
'A great civilization is not conquered from without until it is destroyed from within.'
P.S: See the Great Civilization at work. Only monkeys will be offended by that push some say.
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