haha funny how one person blames ipl coz it doesn allow players to rest, while another one blames it coz it keeps benching players without match practise
migara, just asking, what additional benefit would malinga have, for example, provided to the poor taxpayers in sri lanka during the two months that the ipl is happening?
or say a dilshan or sanga ftr?
and also, I ackowledge sl board spend money to develop players, but please, its not charity work. ultimate financial motive is to stay in the green or black as much as possible. if a few weeks of ipl cricket (please tell me how many guys have dropped dead after an ipl season), can provide a handsome profit without any risk or endeavour except from signing a paper, why should rthey say no to it?
yes, this will mean a few players getting bigger salaries in proportion to other. but isnt a few earning millions than none earning at all? also in the long run, people who are shying away from playing cricket considering it to be less rewarding may actually take up cricket, maybe with a view to making it big in t20, but may turn out to be well rounded players after all. all big achievements have humble beginnings.
and iirc, the likes of malinga, jaya are still very much sl citizens, which means all these millions they earn, are getting injected into the sl economy, which is capital and asset creation. there is this multiplier effect associated with it, so actually these guys are rewarding more than you think they are to the country.
all these from just two months of loaning out staff. see the incremental gain from a bigger perspective, the incremental losses are overblown, and largely unfounded. to make statements that cricket will die out and that the nation is losing out are extremely narrow, myopic viewpoints. country is not losing out. a tiny majority of test crazy cricket fans who believe tests must be conducted twelve months a year, and that players should all prefer them regardless of it being rewarding or not, are imho ultra selfish and just there out to whet their fetish.