ddb wrote:Yes and if Pakistan players did play in the IPL, we'd have about 2000 more problems to deal with, especially at government level.
Simple ddb, no cause- no effect!
Amir- Bowls his team to a world cup final win in T20, quite clearly the best young pace bowler in recent years, arguably already at 18 one of the top three seamers in the world currently.
He earns on his retainer contract from the PCB £1,300 per month. Every time he plays he make about £1,000 extra, meaning that a full calendar of international cricket could make him say £50,000 a year, give or take how many games he plays due to fitness and schedule.
Sharma- SImilar age and situation(promising pace bowler, good initial start), Sharma has a 40 lakh contract with the BCCI, worth on todays rate 56k in sterling. He gets paid double the match fee, so his earnings from the national team are already looking around double should he play a full international calendar.
Sharma though has made literally a mountain more cash than Amir. 950,000$ in 2008 IPL, 975,000$ in 2009, 900,000$ in 2010..... By bowing less balls in the IPL season than Amir may bowl in half a 4 match test series, he earns 10 times Amir's yearly wage from Pakistan....
Then you have endorsements.... Dhoni is earning 10's of millions in the IPL($42MILL in 3 years!!). Sharma's sponsership endorsements with Nike ,in terms of revenue , will simply destroy the small amount that Amir gets as being part of Pepsi in Pakistan.
You think is someone offered you less money you were earning for a months work in the IPL to throw a match and risk your career, you would say yes? In contrast, do you think that if I offered you treble your yearly income to do it, you would be more inclined?
SImply put, if Amir was earning the money of Sharma he wouldnt risk a bright future for a fraction of his pay. Is it no great shock that the other player involved in the no ball bowling was a player who's future in the IPL is permenantly dead after a anti-doping charge? He has no future risk to take, and overstepping twice in a few matches makes more money for him than the rest of his career(Asif).
Dont be naive ddb. We are talking about money, and if these players were earning the money vastly inferior players were getting, you would simply not see it. May I remind you before the big money came to India, India was also rife with bookmakers.... more players have recieved life time bans from India than Pakistan....
So to suggest its inherent for anyother reason that wage earnings is wrong in my eyes.... there would be no more problem in the IPL, and less of a risk in the international arena, if Pakistani players were in the IPL.
Its generally well appreciated that crime is worst in areas of "social exclusion"....... I dont think you need help in spotting the link between normal criminology reasoning, and the current status of Pakistani cricket.
