"Niche game " Hmmm.... guess those millions who watched the World Cup were tuning in to catch a glimpse of Abhishek Bachhaaan and co in the stands...and not Messi or Neuer on the field...
Who is the captain of Indian Kabaddi team? Anybody? Can anybody name the top scorer of last Hockey World Cup? Who is GK of Indian Hockey team? Who is the best attacker of Indian Kabaddi team?
that's a tough quiz. We are not sure about the answers.
Even then, HIL and PKL have faith on their players. ISL do not.
PKL,HIL & even IPL are not disrupting the respective domestic structures in any way and though both could be infinitely better (especially HIL) the primary purpose for both of them is to get better expose domestic players to high class sports environment.
All these clubs are able to take Indian club standards to world class levels. In an Asian champions league for hockey and kabbadi we can expect the clubs to raise Indian flags, absolutely zero chance of #IMG allowing that with #ISL.
#ISL is a private tournament whose clubs follow no standard club rules, invest virtually nothing in youth development or long term training infra development of the country and whose complete revenue goes to a foreign entity with zero stake in long term Indian soccer improvement. Here an owner has opened 8 franchises and makes them play against each other and makes money on sponsorship's etc (conflict of interest??) such a model will never qualify for representing any country..but in India we never know, stranger things have happened.
GK of Indian hockey team is a Malayali, Sreejesh quite well known in Kerala via malayali media. Best raider in pro Kabaddi is Kashling of Dabangg Delhi though I favor Ajay Thakur of Bengaluru Bulls. I don't know the other answers. I found Pro Kabaddi very attractive and believe it has the potential to be very big.
@DX We have already seen selling of Franchise. Kerala Blasters from PVP to Muthoot Group. Tendulkar retains the share. IMG-R controls the league. Selling will mean from one businessman to other but will not change anything. :P
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Hmmm.... guess those millions who watched the World Cup were tuning in to catch a glimpse of Abhishek Bachhaaan and co in the stands...and not Messi or Neuer on the field...
Even then, HIL and PKL have faith on their players. ISL do not.
Best raider in pro Kabaddi is Kashling of Dabangg Delhi though I favor Ajay Thakur of Bengaluru Bulls. I don't know the other answers.
I found Pro Kabaddi very attractive and believe it has the potential to be very big.
TRP of Kabadi was down as well
:P