Better mind your buisness Mr.Vijay Malla.You are true icon of the Liquor industry and you have made India proud by your buisness accumen and bold decision to be amongst the top three in the world.But you have made yourself a laughing stock by getting into IPL with your tonnes of money.If you have read a beautiful article written by a sports writer in Indian Express,you will know what went wrong with your team.These oldie goldie's are adequete to be just a test squad,and look like minnows in 20-20 cricket.From top to bottom,your selection has been ridiculous including your brand ambassdor Katrina(Hurricane!) Kaif,and your teams theme song "Hum Jeetenge Shaan Se".Both jeet and shaan are missing and your team is such a bore,it is not even worth watching!Instead you could have paid half the amount to our young Ranji Team and they would have excelled in this formnat with Virat Kohli as the captain! Sorry Mr.Mallya,you have been kind and gracious enough to give a hefty retirement benefit to our Mr.Rahul Dravid and Mr.Anil Kumble and Katrina,but you have lost your credentials as a shrewed buisnessman.Learn a lesson or two from Priti Zinta or Lalit Modi!As as Kannadiga,I am ashamed of the miserable performance of our Rayal challengers who have even failed to chllenge their opponents!Better luck next year if you wih to gamble!!!
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:57 )
Arvind
Cricket!!! – A Joke!!! ... T20 – Making fun of Cricket!!! ... IPL and ICL – A cruel joke, wasting hard earned Indian Money and gifting it to foreigners ... Thats funny!!!
Believe me ... We are talking about inflation in our own backyard now!!!
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:54 )
Nagarjun
These comments are really in a bad taste. All the IPL franchisee owners should understand that this is SPORT and not a business. In sport you win some and you will loose some. No doubt the team has disappointed with the performance, but the blame game should not be started. As the owner of the team Mr Mallya is also equally responsible as the captain, coach, CEO or the players. Encouraging words would have been a better bet at this time than criticism.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:54 )
JASDEV
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. I AM SURE ALL IPL PLAYERS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHICH TEAM THEY PLAY FOR WILL REALISE THAT IN A CORPORATE WORLD IT IS PERFORMANCE THAT COUNTS AND MONEY IS A REWARD FOR PERFORMANCE. HIRING AND THEN PLAYING SUNIL JOSHI IN THE TEAM IS A CLEAR CASE OF ACCOMADATING FAVOURITES.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:49 )
bala
Only a mad could have selected team like that for 20-20.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:46 )
sundar
Absolutely ridiculous for mallya to critisize his own team midway- this is very demoralising. NOW, Whatever little chance that Royal Challengers had of redeeming themselves is gone with this outburst of mallaya. As a matter of fact mallaya himself is no great business thinker- he is glamour man and sells liquor .Period. As far the team we all knew it to be test team- Rahul, Wasim, Kumble,Sunil Joshi . It looked like Rahul was giving post retirement dole to some of these players. Rahul should be smart like Sachin- who is cleverly sitting out feighning "fitness concen". I am agreat fan of Rahul ,sachin and saurav- But T20 is different ball game . It is Swing and Bang game - only classical, good techniques techniques will not do!
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:42 )
Kumar T
Tsk...Tsk...Tsk....Mr/Dr Mallya. Very, very, unprofessional of you. I'm just happy that I don't work for you. It is very obvious that you are not in the IPL for the game of cricket but just to make money and to flaunt your wealth and style. This is a game and it should stay that way. If you are looking to just win then I guess what you need is players like Dhoni and their types...all with with muscles and very, very, poor technique. Please...if you are here just to win, then please leave the Bangalore franchise and go elsewhere. We have been brought up to treat a sport a sport and have trained and know what it means to play the game. Whether it is Test, One day, or T20, to see a batsman drive the cricket ball in the 'V' is any day better that seeing someone bring his bat down from the direction of point, and play the ball from wide outside off stump and hit it to mid-wicket (ala Dhoni and gang). Just learn from the other Premier League (the English football premier league) and see how professional their owners, coaches, and players are. Yes, there is big money there but the game is still treated as a sport and not what you are trying to make out of it. BTW, what happened to your Force India team? Are you going to sack Sutil and Fischi!!! Dravid, like some one suggested, please resign from the team. You are too good to be in this team. I'm sure that there are other countries who will readily grab up to coach their batsmen.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:42 )
Sitansu
This is really unfair to think that the players are not concetrating the game well due to which the team lost the name and fame in the IPL match.It is the appropriate time to encourage the spirit of the team when they are in need insted of stating controversial words which hold them back for ever.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:42 )
Sreekanth.N
First of all, the team is SAD. Rahul Dravid alone cannot fight it out. It is like asking only the King to fight in the war field with no weapons. I feel the Bangalore team is here more to promote Royal Challenge than to play cricket. Please change that de-facto logo.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 12:39 )
Frederick E.B.
You were disappointed with the Team's performance, but you disappointed all the cricket loving Bangaloreans. A man of vision like you shdn't have trusted others for selecting the Team. Rahul Dravid has lost his touch a long time ago along with the types of Tendulkar, Laxman, etc. etc. Anyway better luck next time !
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