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Many young uncapped players became millionaires in the new mini auction of IPL. Experts believe that the sudden fame and money can affect his focus and career. It is important for them to stay grounded and learn to handle money properly.
Delhi: After the mini auction a few days before the IPL, the story of one of the new uncapped lakhpati-crorepati cricketers is being read every day. The cricketer is happy and the family is also happy and the biggest congratulation is that the son has become the new millionaire. Amidst all this happiness, are these cricketers also reading someone else’s story? If their well wishers tell them the story of Vinod Kambli and Prithvi Shaw, it will prove to be more useful than a congratulatory message.
New uncapped players and big expectations
As of now, the talk is only about the check received by those who have become the new uncapped lakhpati-crorepati cricketers. No one has even seen his cricket. Remember that day when Vinod Kambli was considered to be more talented than Sachin Tendulkar and Prithvi Shaw was considered more talented than Shubman Gill, but both of them could not keep their feet on the ground in their new fame, money and success and ruined their cricket career.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has not yet joined them, but it seems as if the fame he is getting is changing his mood, his anger is visible, it is a sign of his arrogance. Even though the Pakistan team was in front in the Under-19 Asia Cup, Vaibhav was not allowed to unnecessarily get involved in disputes with the players of the other team. If young cricketers do not understand the dignity of international cricket, then who will? Because of his anger, despite being a special player of the team, he was neither made captain nor vice-captain in the team selected for the Under-19 World Cup.
pressure of fame and money
The likes of Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma and Aaqib Nabi Dar created no less stir than Cameron Green’s hefty price tag of Rs 25.20 crore in the mini auction. Chennai Super Kings gave a contract of Rs 14.20 crore to Prashant and Karthik and this offer left behind many serious questions. The first and biggest conundrum: Are they worth that big check? Will these new players from the interior areas of the country be able to handle the pressure of expectations that come with this kind of money? Will his feet remain on the ground now?
Top 5 new uncapped millionaire-millionaire cricketers in Abu Dhabi: Prashant Veer and Karthik Sharma (Rs 14.20 crore); Aaqib Nabi Dar (Rs 8.4 crore); Mangesh Yadav (Rs 5.20 crore) and Tejashwi Singh (Rs 3 crore). The 10 franchises spent a total of Rs 215.45 crore to fill 77 spots, with only two foreigners surpassing the price tag of Veer and Karthik Sharma (green and slinger Mathisha Pathirana).
proper use of money
Okay, changing its policy, CSK spent more than half of its purse of Rs 43.4 crore on Veer and Karthik, but was it right for these young players? Why spend such huge sums on players who are, after all, still learning? How did Veer look like he would replace Ravindra Jadeja in the team? Many stories from poverty to riches have started from the State Franchise League and have reached the IPL, but all of them remember that people like these have shone before but how many of them are still flickering? Not all are able to fulfill their initial promises. Mohammad Siraj became the top fast bowler of Team India with a contract of Rs 1 crore, but there are more such names who lost their way after getting trapped in the trap of money and stardom.
Managing money is a big challenge for young uncapped players.
The problem of most of the youth coming from ordinary background is how to handle money? Many teams organize sessions with investors for them so that they can invest wisely. There is a thinking going on in many franchises that BCCI should make a guideline that these players should get half of the contract amount now and the rest in the form of a fixed deposit in which the amount will be received at the age of 35 years. In this way, the remaining money will act as a safety net for them.
The biggest lesson is that these new uncapped lakhpati-crorepati cricketers should stay connected to the ground. There is a general consensus among cricket experts that suddenly getting so much money and fame can affect the focus and career of a young player. Sunil Gavaskar also expressed concern that the big IPL contract might bring so much happiness that it affects the hunger to perform better.
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