India's hockey players fume as cricketers score all the glory and the riches
Shame on you! Isn't Hockey your National Sport??
From The Times - September 27, 2007
"...Free houses, flights, sports cars and cash bonuses rained down on the Indian cricketers yesterday when the first Twenty20 world champions returned home.
...Last night a coach and four players said that they planned to go on hunger strike in protest at the scale of the rewards....
... Earlier this month the hockey team had held aloft the Asian Cup after beating South Korea 7-2 in the final. ... the players received nothing more than a letter of congratulations from Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister. ..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2539736.ece
Or rather...please spare us all away from Librans...my mom is also a libran...and i can tell u that all of u guys are fabulous...except for a few specimens...Colt...sorry dude i tried to make that as invisible a comment as possible...LOL///
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Tell me about it, especially on your birthdays, the day just flies! LOL
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how time DOES fly when one is enjoying oneself :D
Thread was lost almost 4 hours back! LOL
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I'm so glad you aren't one of 'them'! :P
But wait! I'm hijacking my own thread, here!!!
Thats really Rude..Pain in the Ass n "Librans" sounds naty, take my words people, they are painful but not harmful, handle them with care n one more thing, there are zillions of things available in the market for painful purposes, therefore give librans a sigh of releif for not using them for bad purposes...Hail Librans, im one of U ;)
Did you not tell me that you like BAD boys? That's how I come baby... BIG, BAD!!!!
Well, Do you read mind?
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I don't know about the bad part... but did you just mean that her hubby doesn't isn't a hygenic person, as in dirty?
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Shreeya likes 'em bad and dirty... :-P
Happy Birhtday
You dirty boy!
Those stars were for "ear" not Azz
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"Librans are pain in the ***"... not all librans go anal... lol!!!
Thanks. Am sure my wifey wont be saying the same thing about me or Librans! :P LOL
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Cricketers are being paid by their Cricketing board....which is controlled by ICC.
Since the media is promoting stars and doing write ups people are focusing more on Cricket... thus generating Advertisers willing to pay ads on TV coverage for Cricket.
If such a boring (5day Test) game can generate interest any other game can generate much better interest. So it all depends on how to rope in the Media.
Another thing to blame is India does not have its own Sports channel other than DD (govt channel). When the ZeeTV comes up with their own sports channel then things will improve, definately.
Jauntie and Rayyz,
My hub's is day after tomorrow, no need to say he is a Libra too...All Librans are pain in the ***....so very perfect that they make life of normal people like us, miserable....LOL...
Anyways, Happy Birthday!!!!!!
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Its a surprise that the sponsor for these two games is same (SAHARA)!!!!
"I have a pair of eyes but I can't see U everyday...
I have a pair of ears but I can't hear U everytime....
But...
I have only one heart that remembers U everyseconds......"
jauntie 1000 sorries. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1948306.cms
please try now.
You keep good track of Indian news.. dont you? Hockey is the National game, but Cricket is more popoular. Indian Cricket board is the richest Cricket board in the world... obviously Crickets get more money. World medias give more importance to Cricket.
Kewl... will keep that in my calendar! :) Should I put it as "Jauntie's Birthday"? LOL.
Entries would look funny stating something like Colt45's and Jauntie's Birthdays! Heheheh
Colt congrates, I've got NTN to take care off on my B'day you hav Jauntie now :)
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Janam Din Mubarak ho Shaitan Aj he Nazil howa tha Zameen par :D
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I got an error message when I tried to open that site. Is it out of date? :P
Mine is 8th Oct too... just that the years will surely be different... YAY!!! so lotsa fellow librans here huh... dun they all just envy us librans?...:-P
are u guys discussing bdays or indian sports.???lol
happy bday to all librans
do it right - the first time!
Mine is on 8 October - not long! (I managed to squirrel away a bottle of champers with which to drown my sorrows on the day) :D
Mega cash incentive for hockey team-The Times of India
Denying that the announcement of cash reward was any publicity stunt, Indian Hockey Federation President KPS Gill said the Indian team was capable of ...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1948306
Thank you very much! :)
Libran too eh? When is it?
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Cricket is the most preferred game between the south Asian Countries. Despite many other sports are named as national game.
I am From Sri Lanka, In SL Volleyball is the national game, yet we hardly see volleyball matches on TV or Youths playing volleyball. Rich or poor, cricket is preferred since it was cricket that bought fame to the country.
But In India we notice that when cricketers perform well, winning matches with great milestones, they are praised gifted and supposed to be the most richest immediately after the match, where as once they are defeated, they are humiliated, disgraced and their houses are demolished by protesters ..!! This is not nice, after all its still a game.
Anyway Good luck India, and well played...!!
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Happy Birthday, by the way, to a fellow Libran :D
Now thats one way to look at it!
Isn't that good that India has been doing really well in both sports? Wonder where does England stand in either Cricket, Soccer or Hockey! :)
Same to you! :P
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no no no. plyer get INR 1000/ on each goal. every state give player 5 lakh each and haryana state give haryana player 21 lakh !!!!