2 days Ago By Mid-day
BCCI announces R125-crore reward to -winning team.” I couldn’t have missed this headline-making news as Sunday evening drew to a close. I was chuffed because the players deserve every rupee of it.
I mean, let’s just not look at the final in Barbados. Remember, the players had just finished a hectic, tiresome IPL-17 and then undertook their World Cup challenge. Sure, some players whose franchises hadn’t qualified for the IPL Playoffs reached America earlier than others.
But it’s not easy to recover from an IPL season. Great show by Rohit & Co ADVERTISEMENT They met their challenges on the tough American pitches and landed in the West Indies unscathed. That’s how they were till the last ball was bowled in Saturday’s final.
What a fabulous performance they dished out. What steel they showed in a perfect example of a team making its own luck! We felt there were far too many spinners picked in the squad. The team lacked a gun reserve batsman.
But in the end, Rohit Sharma and his troops played like true champions, the kind of victors who deserve to rake in the moolah. T20 World Cup 2024 | Hardik Pandya: The man who stayed under the headlines! The BCCI has walked the talk with this humungous cash reward. It’s unprecedented but not undeserving from the players point of view.
A Board can have money power and yet not share the pie with its players. Here, BCCI is putting out the best spread for the people who have made their country so very proud. The Board is well known.
