{"id":762,"date":"2008-01-09T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2008\/01\/09\/money-talks-bullshit-walks\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T07:05:08","slug":"money-talks-bullshit-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2008\/01\/09\/money-talks-bullshit-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Talks, Bullshit Walks&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;..anyone think that if Bhajji was a Pakistani Player or a Sri Lankan Player or a West Indian player or a player in [tag]Sunil Gavaskar[\/tag]&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 side &#8230;. justice would have been done ?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I am glad that &#8216;fairness&#8217; and the &#8216;spirit of the game has been vindicated, but&#8230; this was not just about justice, it was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/South_Asia\/JA09Df03.html\">about money<\/a><\/strong>&#8230; lots of it&#8230;..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year, [tag]ESPN                                Star Sports[\/tag] paid the [tag]ICC[\/tag] $1.1 billion for eight                                years of TV rights and production house Nimbus                                bought [tag]BCCI[\/tag] rights for [tag]international cricket[\/tag]                                played in India for $612 million for four years.                                India is estimated to drive 70% of global                                cricketing revenues. ESPN Star is estimated to                                lose $22 million if India calls off its Australian                                tour.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s star cricketers earn                                bigger endorsements in India than in their own                                country. They could suffer. Ogilvy &amp; Mather                                executive chairman and former domestic cricketer                                Piyush Pandey told the Economic Times, &#8220;If I was                                an Australian cricketer endorsing an Indian brand,                                I would be very, very worried. Right now, there&#8217;s                                a lot of anger and angst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>India,                                Australia, Pakistan, South Africa and England                                represent the biggest cricket markets worldwide in                                a game played widely in 101 ICC member countries.                                Non-resident Indians, including millions in North                                America, form a significant chunk of the [tag]global                                cricket market[\/tag].<\/p>\n<p>Shailendra Singh, joint                                managing director of Percept Holdings and a major                                player in the endorsement markets, was quoted as                                saying. &#8220;Australians are known to be aggressive.                                But this time the aggression has turned into                                arrogance. 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Indian brands will think twice before                                signing up any Australian cricketer for                                endorsements.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And before we go off and demonise all Australians, for the actions of their [tag]cricket[\/tag] team&#8230;. remember the voices speaking up for fairness and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/cricketNews\/idUKSP15130220080109\"><strong>spirit of the sport<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; and justice &#8230; also came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/sport\/cricket\/article3156123.ece\"><strong>there<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is are some interesting conversations <a href=\"http:\/\/greatbong.net\/2008\/01\/07\/kangaroo-courts-and-bent-umpires\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nitawriter.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/07\/unfair-verdict\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/the_doosra\/2008\/01\/tour-in-limbo-a.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\"><strong>here <\/strong><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/with-malice.com\/2008\/01\/08\/storm-in-a-teacup\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;..anyone think that if Bhajji was a Pakistani Player or a Sri Lankan Player or a West Indian player or a player in [tag]Sunil Gavaskar[\/tag]&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 side &#8230;. justice would have been done ? &#8230;I am glad that &#8216;fairness&#8217; and the &#8216;spirit of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,42],"tags":[61,398,515],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-society","tag-india-australia-test-series","tag-cricket","tag-economics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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