What do u think??? Are players playing for their passion, their love for game, because of their skills or they are just playing to bag big figure of money in their pocket??? Is real game still alive?? Tell me your views???
When they are young and new they play for passion/winning and then for money and then they never play again until the board threatens to kick them out..
Money,money and only money.There are few who plays for passion.The greed for money will increase as IPL,ICL came to the market.Cricket is not a game anymore its business.Even US businessmen started to invest in it seeing its popularity-Allen Stanford in the caribbean. see this Texan billionaire Allen Stanford investing in Antigua's Stanford ... This is the real face of cricket now days.
Money obviously plays an important part in today's world. You could have all the passion in the world for the game, but if your board won't compensate you, you are obviously not going to continue playing.
I think passion is still a major part, What happens when you're down and out, you keep going and push till you're better. - thats passion.
Passion will always be a major part of cricket it all depends on the player. Some players are passionate and some players are not.