Still I love this leaping creature called cricket-2

Definitely IPL has turned the way we look towards cricket not only in India but world wide.It has provided the opportunity for cricket where it can compare itself with NBA/NFL of USA or EPL of England or super rugby series.More importantly with advent of champions league peoples are emphasizing on domestic championships.May be India has taken the center stage to bring the change in world cricket but still there is much scope of development in Indian domestic cricket circuit.As much as 27 teams are involved in our domestic structure so time and weather does not allow us to create a all around league as we have to play on the three different formats.We also find that very few interest for domestic cricket as almost 60% of all matches are uncompetitive ie. Delhi playing Orissa(just like Australia Vs Bangladesh).How can it create a buzz! So time has come when we should extend the IPL idea to  longer format.That is we should start 5 day matches in between IPL teams.Yes there should be some minor changes in rule like instead of four international we can take two.Yes   it will be impossible broadcast all the matches on TV,but we can target the stadium audience with other media forms as a competitive cricket always catch the eyeball in any form of cricket.Mainly this will work against the idea that IPL is creating batsman who don't know what is the real cricket is! Make this franchise based tournament as main domestic competition for long format.Scrap  inter zonal events like duleep trophy, zonal one days and challengers.Keep the Ranaji Trophy  with less groups with more teams.That will increase no of matches  played around 16 as we will get  four months(Nov-Feb).Ranaji Trophy will work as second fiddle for the main event while both are played simultaneously.No 20-20 event in state level but a 40 or 50 over league which must span for two months with minimum 15 matches for every team.That can be played parallel with IPL 20-20 in month of March to May.Keep  IPL in its existing avtar with four  foreign bound players.By that way every IPL team will try to find a perfect blend between  class and stroke making.This idea is relatively  similar to the South African domestic structure which is a big success but we have the chance to make huge one.
But before doing this we have to face three hurdles.May some franchise owners will reluctant to do this as they will do not see major economical gains.But I believe there number will be small and a BCCI arm twisting will change their mind.Next one  from inside BCCI as state boards will reluctant to name there only important tournament to a second string  one but it can be solved if we show them the financial gain they will have.Yes the third one for which I see no shore is some people will come with idea that scarping tournaments associated with name like Zal Irani,DB Deodhar & KS Duleepshingji  is dishonor to respective grate persons and relative state/community they belongs, which is in my word cheap and ignorant politics.

Indian wild boars

Just going through I read a story from somebody's blog as follows.


There was a village that was attacked everyday by wild boars for their food. The villagers tried various means to fight and chase away the wild boars, but without much success.

One day a wise man told the villagers to gather all the food from every household and put it in the middle of a big empty field. They followed his advice, and immediately they saw hundreds of wild boars approaching the vicinity where the food was placed. The wild boars were apprehensive initially, but after a while they went for the food.
Once the wild boars had a taste of the food they came back for the free food everyday. And everyday the villagers would put more food in the field and the wild boars would come to have their free meals. After a while, the wise man asked the villagers to erect four poles at the four-corners of the field.The wild boars were too busy having their food that they did not take notice of what was happening.
After a few weeks, the wild boars developed the habit of having free food. The wise man then asked the villagers to put fencing around the field, with a large gate through which the wild boars can enter to have their food. Finally once the fencing and the gate were completed the villagers closed the gate and all the wild boars were trapped inside the field. The wild boars were finally defeated!
Relevance of story is that politicians in our country has seen the poor mass as the wild boars of the story.As we come nearer to the state election of WB & TN, the two political parties TMC & DMK which are major allies of UPA in center are bargaining hard for increase in food subsidy which they can call their achievement for the cause of poor when they will go to people.We almost spend around USD 12 billion in previous financial year on food security and the major beneficiary are not poor but government officials, PDS distributor and the middle man from whom government buying in more price than market. Another major problem created by this system is creating a habit of free food which is a trap.Working people will always work and pay the tax.These power crazy politicians will be always in power by just giving the the hard yearned money as freebies and taking all the credit .Poor being uneducated will take this as a gratitude and sleep and remain ever poor.My honest request is stop all these projects as soon as possible or just confined them to pocket regions where we have seen situation like flood or drought .A poor man's real problem is that he can lost his whole life saving in medical bill and have no money to spend on education because they find it useless.So govt should come up with free hospitals irrespective of bigger nature of diseases and guarantee of free higher education for poor .There is very less chance that people over us will change and will try most not to change the people under.

Eventually boars lost their freedom ,we have almost !
We must stand and regain it.



[Peepli Live is a fabulous movie if we try to understand it.]

WE HAVE NOT MISSED IT YET

You may have heard about a city called GIFT.If not then I am giving a short description on it. Gujarat international finance tech city or GIFT is an under-construction city near Ahmadabad which will come up with high quality physical infrastructure i.e wide roads,24 hour electricity,water,gas,telecom,broadband and even a centralized ac which will cool an inbuilt area of 85 Lakh sq ft on 500 acre city which can provide 6 lakh direct jobs in coming 10 years in financial,IT & IT-es sector . This is a Gujarat state government initiative to a compete with already established hubs like NCR,Mumbai and Bangalore.

So here my problem is that our state has not all kind of resources to initiate a same kind of project may not be that huge.Our Orissa government is too busy in clearing roads for projects based on mining sector as these makes a high gains for only concerned company and corrupt officials as well as ministers. Sufferer are the mass of Orissa who are losing valuable resources in very minimal price otherwise which must have used for all round development of state.we must not oppose the projects like Posco steel or Vedanta but should ask the question to the government yes some projects are stocked but why orissa government has stocked.Yes truth is very clear ,our politician and technocrats are too busy on these projects which they think will gain them personally.In last 10 years we see only 4-5 software farms have came up at Bhubaneswar.All the new plans have been held.City is growing but as a concrete slum with unplanned roads.Every year ground water level is decreasing with uncontrolled digging of borewells .No planning for efficient electrical distribution system.A growth of city does not mean how big area it covers but up to which height it stands. BDA is just busy to make ways to increase the earning of land mafias and small time builders.Where as they should take initiation to make huge residential buildings with wide roads ,open green area and other amenities.People of Bhubaneswar are voting blindly for a party but that does not mean they will always.Still we has a chance So Orissa have to compete with others.