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March 9, 2006
Posted by Amit Varma on 03/09/2006 in Thoughts on the game
Should women's cricket be subsidised by earnings from international men's cricket? Should domestic cricket? My answers to those questions, in order: no and yes.
Domestic cricket acts as a feeder system for the international game; the healthier it is, the more international cricket benefits. Thus, there is good reason to subsidise it.
But women's cricket offers no such benefits to men's cricket. It should pay its own way.
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December 13, 2005
Posted by Amit Varma on 12/13/2005 in Thoughts on the game
Imagine two boys, Manu and Pikoo. They both go to work for Bharat Newspaper Distributors, an agency that distributes newspapers. They are part of a large team of delivery boys.
Bharat, who runs the agency, tells Manu one day, “Manu, my group of boys is very inefficient, they keep delivering papers late, my customers will switch, at this rate. I need them to put their shoes on, I mean, to pull their socks up. From today, I am making you responsible for timely delivery of newspapers.”
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