Cricket associated career for a non-cricketer (your average doctor, lawyer, engineer)

[fineleg]

Someone was raising this question, and was asking for suggestions, thought to post here to get opinions of ICF-ers.

 

If you are an Indian cricket fan, but a non-cricketer yourself (meaning, you have not played First class cricket, you have just played informal cricket with friends, or perhaps at University). But you have good knowledge about the game through many years of following the game closely. Can you eke a career or living doing something associated with cricket? Or is this practically impossible - given that commentators are cricketers these days (there are very few Narotam Puri's, harsha bhogle's), cricket journalism is one, but crowded area (few exceptions like Amit Varma, Sharda Ugra)...

 

BCCI and Indian cricket runs based on connections and not easily open to "outsiders" who are strangers?

 

Is it only possible as a "hobby"? or can a normal doctor, engineer, lawyer - suddenly turn to a cricket career (not as a cricket player, obviously), and make a living from it? What if any are the possibilities?

 

Do software engineers start cricket related software companies? (but are they successful?) Do lawyers start cricket related law practices?

 

This can be moved to chit-chat later, but since folks look here, can be left here for few days.

Edited October 27, 2016 by fineleg

[sandeep]

IPL opened up a lot of opportunities - marketing, administration, etc.  IIRC Kumble had a software company that sold cricket software.  There's a lot of room for innovation there, but no shortcuts.  

[maniac]

1 minute ago, sandeep said:

IPL opened up a lot of opportunities - marketing, administration, etc.  IIRC Kumble had a software company that sold cricket software.  There's a lot of room for innovation there, but no shortcuts.  

Kumble also had a talent management company that sold cricketing hardware

 

[fineleg]

True, IPL did open lot of business around it. But still a lot of it was "within the circles", one (a small business guy) had to have "connections" in India to be successful, either connections to cricketers, officials, or actors/celebrities, politicians, top business men, and they all cashed in on it - even if its a small business encashing on the crumbs thrown by the big honchos (still decent chunk of money) ..

Edited October 27, 2016 by fineleg

[sandeep]

30 minutes ago, fineleg said:

True, IPL did open lot of business around it. But still a lot of it was "within the circles", one (a small business guy) had to have "connections" in India to be successful, either connections to cricketers, officials, or actors/celebrities, politicians, top business men, and they all cashed in on it - even if its a small business encashing on the crumbs thrown by the big honchos (still decent chunk of money) ..

What business doesn't require networking and contacts to be successful, be it India or anywhere else?  If you want to do something, work hard on it, instead of whining about how others have it easy.   

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