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Stop 'gambling game' of cricket auction: Thackeray

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Posted online: Friday , February 22, 2008 at 1425 hrs IST
      

Mumbai, February 22: : Dubbing the auctioning of cricketers by the BCCI-promoted Indian Premier League as "a gambling game of industrialists" Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray on Friday asked the Cricket Board President Sharad Pawar to stop it.

In an open letter to Pawar published on the front page of Friday's edition of Sena mouthpiece Samana, Thackrey said such open display of wealth does not augur well for the Indian cricket where players are being auctioned for money.

He said the whole thing has started only to checkmate Indian Cricket League (ICL), the rebel league promoted by Subhash Chandra-led Essel Group.

The auction of over 60 players, including those from other Test playing countries, was held here on Wednesday.

"Oh Pawar, what is happening in the realm of cricket?", said the Sena chief, who is the newspaper's editor.

"These industrialists are throwing money in your cricket field as a result of which cricket is getting corrupt.

"Cricketers are being purchased as a result this their concentration will not be in the game and the sport will decline in this country," he warned.

"If this is how industrialists wield their money then a day will come when there will be no need of government because it will be the industrialists who will call the shots and run the country," Thackeray said.

"Stop this gambling of industrialists and save cricket.

You (Pawar) have the guts to do it, don't you?" the letter added.

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Stop cricket auction
by Rav Balky on 2008-02-24 02:38:28.149248+05:30
I think IPL will reduce the professsionalism aspect of cricket - people like Tiwary, Praveen Kumar, by virtue of Hindi speaking origin get 400k plus dollars when they have not played a dinkum of cricket It is a shame in capitalism that unproven talent is rewarded in India, just as it is so in India, in every sphere of life
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Stop 'gambling game' of cricket auction: Thackeray
by NIRMAL on 2008-02-23 16:44:35.966613+05:30
I am sure Bal Thakrey feels that Industrialists should not be allowed to "buy" cricketers, because that way they will not have money left to "buy" politicians like Bal Thakrey.
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how sharukh
by RAH on 2008-02-23 14:40:51.133294+05:30
I HAVE ONLY ONE QUESTION , LEAVE THE INDUSTRIALIST ,THEY HAVE SOURCE ..BUT HOW SHAURKH KHAN PUT SUCH A HUGE MONEY ???FROM WHERE HE MANAGED SUCH A MONEY...FROM WHICH INDUSTRY ???? ITS REALLY STRANGE ?? NO QUESTIN OR NOTHING FROM INDIAN GOVT ...AT LEAST THE BCCI SHOULD GIVE US THE SOURCE OF MONEY... OTHERWISE THAT MONEY MAY BE FROM HAWALA OR MAY BE FROM TERRORISTS, OR MAY B FROM UNDERWOLD DONS...WE ALL KNOW HOW THESE KHAN BRTHERS ARE LINKED TO DONS ??Y NO BODY IS QUESTIONING THESE SHARUKH..ITS A STRANGE
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Wrong timing...
by ds on 2008-02-23 05:29:44.240751+05:30
Why speak so late Mr. Thackrey when the trucks have been sold. The entire Thackrey clan has become senile and hope their supports don't.
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