while Sachin was not playing, now being the crowd puller he is, we saw that really reduced the fans attendance in the stadium, and he will retire pretty soon. Now wouldnt that ultimately lead to disappointment and less interest in indian fans, and hence less following, thus sponsors cutting in their investments and BCCI no longer remains the money making machine it is,

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Indians are not mad about cricket solely because of Tendulkar and conclusion on Indians losing interest in cricket cannot be based on thin attendance in the recent India-England odi games.Attendance was low because Indians have been playing too much cricket.Prior to India-England series, they had hosted World Cup, India ha

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India had hosted World Cup, IPL and Champions League which concluded days before the start of Ind-Eng series and both teams had already played gruelling series in the same.
My prediction regarding the future of Indian team is that they will revert to Pre-Ganguly days i.e Tiger at home and mice abroad.Though BCCI will retain its influence since influence is not based on national team's performance, its based on India's revenue generating capability in cricket which will not go down in the forseeable future.

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Neon

This is no secret that BCCI influences decision making of ICC to an extent greater in proportion that other cricket boards do.
I do not see any negativity in someone raising a question that will BCCI be able to retain its influence after national team's catastrophic performance in England and Australia so far.Because low interest in the nation can follow their team's decline.

U dont want this to be a wum article, but yet go on to make false accusations about the bcci secretly controlling the icc

Please privide some facts to back this up.. Otherwise its a wum article

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that was not the point of my article anyway, and over here I cant write a hindi version for you.

Amla, thats write Tendulkar is not the only man who makes their people mad about cricket, but there is no one else whom they get to the extent of calling god. So to me, his retirement will affect the enthusiasm we currently see there.

Besides IPL has already been accused of being the reason for Indian decline in test cricket. Most of the true cricket fans do not seem very pleased with this tournament anymore. Thus I dont think this product would either remain as the cash cow for BCCI.

And last but not the least, the poor performance by their team would lead to less following naturally.

However I do agree with you on them being from mice to tigers at home, which does remain a consolation for BCCI at the moment. And Indians normally play this much cricket and we generally see capacity crowds in their home matches. And just before engand series, west indies visited there and we saw some good crowd in those matches.

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To me their revenue generating capability definitely depends on the quality of cricket their team comes up with, and the stars they have in their team.

My analysis could well be wrong as well, lets see how it goes.

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