India vs India

I couldn't think of any other title when I write about the war between the cricket leagues(Indian Cricket League-ICL and Professional Cricket League-PCL) being formed in India and they cannot have better leaders to lead the battle (Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar). This will be interesting to watch than any of the matches played by the team.

I am happy about the formation of these:

• The false association of patriotism with the game will fade away and hopefully it will be seen as just a game. It will set the importance of the game's position amongs other games right.It is sad that now the common man, next to the Indian Army, considers the Indian cricket team as the pride of the nation and as the ones who hold the Indian flag high.
  
• This will bring to light more talents and stars which earlier used to fade out before being noticed
  
• Break the monopolistic behaviour of the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI)
  
• Bring more opportunities to retired cricketers and reduce the involvement of people who are miles away from the game.
  
• Make the cricketers millionaires to billionaires
  
• Popularize 20/20 form of the game and thus saving a lot of viewers time that is SPENT in watching either 8 hours or 40 hours versions of the game.
  
• Roll-in MORE money into the game. In fact, the whole chain of events is all nothing but a media-war. The root-cause lies in the tussle of broadcast rights between Zee network and BCCI.

And every coin has a flip side. There could be a few risks:

• Our dear politicians could pounce on the opportunity and completely colour the field with party poilitics
  
• Betting and match-fixing could increase as more money is involved
  
• Cricketers could easily be manipulated to speak and work against the interest of the game
  
• Use of performance enhancing drugs could creep in to meet the competiotion
  

Indian cricket is getting more interesting off the field than on the field which in the past few years is nothing unusual.