Bravo, BCCI. Bravo, GOI.

This article is with respect to the distribution of money done by the BCCI and state governments, to our CHAMPIONS!

After India won the T20 WC, I was elated. Everyone was! Before the match, one of the commentators on ESPN/STAR said that the BCCI had announced an amount of $ 1 million for the Indian team. Fair enough, they're trying to convey to the team that whatever happens in the final, we're backing you.

Then after the match was won, one of the presenters said the amount was hiked to $ 2 million. After reaching India, it was told that they were given a total of $ 3 million....ees good. 3 million, they deserved...a l'il more. maybe.

Now after all this happened, there was the stupid felicitation (God save us from these govt. ppl), where the players were given NO respect at all, and the political leaders came to the party, as if they had won India the T20 cup.

The saddest part, was when the State Governments started declaring prize money for the "Individual" players, who belong to the respective state. All the time, during the T20 cup, one song was synonymous - Chak De India. The movie tells us that no one should mention their States, Only India. Then WHY do the state governments want to waste all the taxpayers' money AS WELL AS the loaned money from World Bank, to give to the Indian players?

Heres the list:

- Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has announced a cash incentive of Rs 10 lakh each for Ajit Agarkar and Rohit Sharma.

- Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has announced that her Government would give cash award of Rs 5 lakh each to Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag.

- R. P. Singh will receive Rs 10 lakh in cash and a citation from the UP government as mark of recognition for his brilliant performance.

- Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has announced an award of Rs 5 lakh each for Venkatesh Prasad, the bowling coach of the team, and Robin Uthappa.

- The President of Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana Rashtriya Samiti has announced a rewards of Rs 1,16,000 each to Dhoni, Irfan Pathan and Gautam Gambhir.

- Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced a cash reward of Rs 21 lakh for Joginder Sharma.

- Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh offered a week’s free stay to all the members of the team in any of the HP Tourism Development Corporation hotels in the state.

- Tamil Nadu Government announced Rs 5 lakh cash reward for Dinesh Karthik.

- Team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni will receive the first ever ‘Jharkhand Ratna’ Award which carries a cash award of Rs 5 lakh and a memento.

- Tax exemption for all players.

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I think the most intelligent person in all this is Narendra Modi.
The news channels going on BLABBERING: "Modi IGNORES the Pathan brothers". They just need fresh shit to eat upon.

BTW, this list doesn't include the "Gifts" given to certain players...You know...Cars and stuff :|

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Bottomline: Nobody cares how much money the players got, but the problem is with the governance of this country. States just throwing away money, which can be used for many other things.

BCCI could have used the money to bring the Women Cricket Team of India to a better standard. Increase viewership, etc.

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This is all I've got to say now!

Regards,

Adijo

Inspiration...

Thees blog has got its main inspeerashun from a certain Comic Strip, known as Pearls Before Swine!

If u haven't heard of it yet, then please make an effort to go through this thread:

http://imserba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61477

Here's a sample:

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9955/pearls20060502093775qm.jpg

=)) Funny, eh?!?!?

Regards,

Adijo.

As I was trulli saying...

Trulli: McLaren Pair should have been axed.

As I told u guys in my last post, the McLaren Pair should have been axed...

Here's the whole report - Truly said by Trulli!

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Toyota's Jarno Trulli believes McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso should have been excluded from the world championship.

The Italian veteran told Reuters that the McLaren duo were lucky to avoid sanction in the spying scandal.

"It's very difficult to judge the spy story. You never know the truth if you're not inside the team," the 33-year-old Toyota driver said in an interview before this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.

"But if you disqualify a team you should probably disqualify the drivers as well because they're all involved and work for the same team.

"It's difficult for me to judge so I don't want to say any more. It's just a shame F1 has suffered. The sport has been hit hard by this spy story all around the world."

Trulli's team-mate Ralf Schumacher was more forgiving.

"I think it's only fair that they are not punished," the German told Reuters. "The drivers are not really involved in the development of the car.

"I don't know about the other drivers but for myself, and the people I've talked to, they should not be punished."

"It's honestly very difficult. It was clear they had some information at some point," Schumacher added. "But I don't think it was ever clear McLaren or the drivers benefited from what they got."

Schumacher explained that stripping the McLaren drivers of their points would have tainted the world championship.

"It would be unfair," he said. "It's always arguable but I think for the championship it's important that everything stays as it is.

"I had it four years ago at Williams. I finished third but there was some mistake in measuring the brake ducts and my third place got cancelled.

"The brake duct was slightly too big but by three millimetres or so. I mean, what's the driver's mistake in that?"

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Source: http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story/7262708

And by the way, Ralf Schumachers' views are lame :|, he's too casual.

Formula 1 "Scene"

It's a real pity; whatever thats happening in/to Formula 1. The season was going on smoothly. It seemed that there was so much competition between the Ferrari's, the McLaren's and even the BMW Saubers. But after the whole McLaren Spy row, it just isn't the same in F1. Any team can acquire any other teams' classified information!

McLaren has always been an unreliable car, but off late they've gotten better in their performance and reliability. I think I know the reason why. You do too!
It has a LOT to do with this Spy row. Ferrari is THE MOST consistent F1 car there is.

Now, the engineers of the two outfits were in contact with each other, with McLaren's Mike Coughlan asking Ferrari's Nigel Stepney about the "red" car's configuration. Coughlan was the Chief Designer and Stepney was the former Team Manager for their respective teams.

Coughlan asked Stepney about all sorts of stuff about the technical aspects of the Ferrari.

They were sacked. Then McLaren were stripped off their points for the whole year. They can't score any points in the coming weeks either! McLaren punished.

BUT the thing that I DON'T like is that none of the drivers were punished. It's a fact that the 2-time world champion Fernando Alonso, test driver Pedro De La Rosa and Coughlan were in contact with Nigel Stepney throught e-mail and SMS.

It's a pity the drivers weren't fined AT ALL. I would have loved to have seen Kimi at the top of the drivers' standings !!!

For the sake of writing....

Fellow humans, aliens and my frands,

Hi! I'm Aditya here. Thees ees my blog.
(Un)Like the most of u, I'm a normal human.

Ees finally good to start a blog of my own. But you guys don't want to read that shit!
"My first blog, EVER!" and all that. Sounds lame, doesn't it? So what if it is ur first blog! Bug off!
You're not the first one to write a blog for Christs sake!

It's not an achievement...You're a drop in the ocean! A rubber band among a kazillion rubber bands...A grain of sand on a beach! You know what I mean!

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Anyway, its a holiday today on account of "Ganesh Visarjan". Making the most of it, by writing these random thoughts, which mean nothing AT ALL.

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The horizontal line above is referred by my College professor as "Dash-Line" LOL.
Theoretically, hes right! But......Dash-Line...WTF?

Just keep visiting this space (I know u won't...until I tell u to) for more dhinchak updates.

Till then

Regards,

Adijo.