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BCCI-Sahara truce: Sahara to continue sponsoring Team India and Pune Warriors to play in IPL- 5

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Sahara's loss...IPL will find even better sponsor now :yay:
Maybe, but the immediate concern is what happens to the auction today. This is the kind of stuff that makes following Indian cricket such fun.
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Sahara's loss...IPL will find even better sponsor now :yay:
:haha: Yea right, I doubt you will find a better sponsor then Sahara. Now its going to snapped up by one of those lousy telecom companies or some under the table deal for a random company you never heard of.
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They pulled out cuz they wouldnt let Yuvi be replaced :hysterical: Good on Sahara to make a bold decision, BCCI is running a dictatorship with no transparency or union of the players or franchises.

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But Pune is their team and they are contracted. Can they do this without selling the team?
IF BCCI wants to clean out Sahara, they themselves first have to be clean against Sahara. In which they are not. So doubt BCCI will do anything other then accept their decision. Its a slap in the face for BCCI. :hehe:
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IF BCCI wants to clean out Sahara, they themselves first have to be clean against Sahara. In which they are not. So doubt BCCI will do anything other then accept their decision. Its a slap in the face for BCCI. :hehe:
But what BCCI have done to Sahara? I had always thought that it would happen. Sahara is a losing cause in itself.
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But what BCCI have done to Sahara? I had always thought that it would happen. Sahara is a losing cause in itself.
It was an emotional decision for us to start this sponsorship but our emotions were never appreciated and many genuine situations, were not given due consideration at all. Our first entry into IPL was thwarted in 2008 when we were disqualified, owing to a small technicality on the whims and fancies of BCCI. Yet our Bid was not opened. Last year, Sahara entered the IPL on the basis of information in the media and everywhere else that 94 matches will be played among 10 teams. The bid price was accordingly calculated, but only 74 matches were played. We are still pursuing continuously with the BCCI to refund the extra bid money proportionately. It has been denied on the basis of strict rules In the interest of the tournament, we repeatedly tried our best to pursue the BCCI for open auction of all players so that we achieve level playing field and all teams are equally balanced from the quality players' point of view. Again, as per BCCI's strict rules it was denied and again, we were deprived of natural justice. 12 of the best players were retained by the existing teams then. The two new teams then requested for allowing us at least one extra foreign player but that too was denied, quoting rules. Once during a World Cup tournament, Sahara's name was not allowed because there was a clash of our Airline with a South African airline. In two major tournaments, the team had to play without the 'SAHARA' logo.ŽÃ‚ It was ICC's decision so we could realize that it was for no fault of BCCI and we also did not want the players to suffer. As per the rules, we were not supposed to pay sponsorship money for those matches but we still paid the players share of the amount in entirety. Sadly, we never found BCCI believing in genuine give and take. Furthermore, Shri Yuvraj Singh, who is truly like one of our family members, is, quite unfortunately, passing through a bad phase health wise, undergoing treatment for critical illness, overseas. Out of enthusiasm, he may like to come out on the ground after a few months. But any well-wisher who truly loves him, would never desire that he be allowed to play for the oncoming months. Our duty is to take care of him, so Sahara has decided to pay him his full fee this year with condition as a Guardian that his priority should be health care and he should not play till he has fully recovered. We requested the BCCI on the basis of the fact that we have only one Indian marquee player, that we be allowed to add price of Shri Yuvraj Singh in our auction purse, during the 4th February auction because we had later taken Shri Sourav Ganguly at 0.4 million. Again, we have been denied on the basis of the rule book. Yet again, a case of being denied natural justice. We think this peculiar situation of Shri Yuvraj Singh is silent in the rule book because it probably talks only about players who are temporarily injured. Incidentally, once during the Champion's League tournament, one of the Indian IPL teams had a lot of injured players so they were rightly, out of natural justice, allowed to break the rules and take one extra foreign player. We appreciated this natural justice. We really feel such one-sided emotional relationship cannot be dragged any further. We are withdrawing from all cricket under BCCI/ However, we don't want to give any problem to the BCCI and we also feel that the players should not suffer. BCCI will definitely take 2-4 months to get a new sponsor and we will continue paying the sponsorship money till then. All other IPL team players, coaches and other such associates will definitely get their due this year, in case they do not get a chance to play.
http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/item/184920-sahara-indias-statement-on-its-dissociation-with-bcci
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They have not withdrawal from IPL. Just from sponsorship of Indian team which they have already talked about last year. It is not new. It had to happen as they cannot burden sponsoring two big teams. PS: Correction, yes they have from all sponsorships, but because of a conflict related to Yuvraaj Singh. They wanted price of Yuvraaj to be spent on buying other players which BCCI did not allow.
When there is a legally binding contract and you dont uphold your end of the contract, what do companies like Sahara and such would think about BCCI? They had enough of BCCI's games and are making decisions where it will hurt BCCI the most hoping they come to their senses. Even if its a loss to Sahara. Its 2012, and BCCI still has a chalta hai attitude when we are discussing money in hundreds of millions of dollars. Sahara paid for a product, BCCI doesnt provide it.......so Sahara cuts the contract. End of story. Keeping in mind that they been very flexible to BCCI's terms for a long time.
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:isalute: to Sahara First time in a long time that someone has had enough of the bs BCCI is feeding everyone.
aabey tu itna khush kyun hota hai :poink:

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