Cricketers and their lives! Oh gloria in excelsis

Alright folks... India has won the inaugural Twenty20 world cup championship. Hip Hip Hooray to that! Now that they're back on home turf, and justifiably deserving of heroes' welcome, let's put certain things into perspective. Nearly every player that went to South Africa as an Indian representative(even Agarkar, who did Jackshit for the most part!) is walking with really fat pockets in their trousers. May I ask what for ? Dad says "beta, they're cricketers... not degree holders or qualified like you and your friends are... what they have now is what will stand them in good stead in the future... just 10 years... what more do they have after that?".

Hmm... food for thought; valid point made by my father. However, does it still warrant such criminal expenditure ? Don't forget, we are a cricket-worshipping and demonising nation. There's no grey shades here; its just one extreme to another. In my opinion, these incentives do little to motivate them; infact its just spoiling them rotten. One match, and Rohit Sharma is the toast of the town; I mean come on... instead of encouraging him to go further, higher and better and work even harder to breakthrough in to the National side, the cricketing powers that be shower him with cash, creed and the whole enchilada.

At this point I'm really interested in finding out how BCCI will react after India's performance against Australia in the home one-day series. Its 10pm at night and I've just seen the dismal score that defines India's performance at Kochi's one day. Nice one... all that adrenalin pumping and teeth-gritting by Sreesanth just went to the cleaners. Jesussssssss... what a calamity!!!