A blog by ©hinaman

and so the game of
“my slaves are better”
“no, my slaves are imported”
“no, no, my slaves are more famous than your slaves”
“no, no, no, my slaves will put more butts on the seats in the arena than your slaves”
began at 10.45 am IST at the historical Fort Aguada Resort Goa

the happy slaves

Andrew Flintoff for $ 1.55 million
Kevin Pietersen for $1.55 million
JP Duminy for $950,000
Tyron Henderson for $650,000
Mashrafe Mortaza for $600,000
Ravi Bopara for $450,000
Shaun Tait for $US375,000
Owais Shah for $275,000
Paul Collingwood for $275,000
Jesse Ryder for $160,000
Fidel Edwards for $150,000
Kyle Mills for $150,000
Thilan Thushara for $140,000
Dwayne Smith for $100,000
George Bailey for $50,000

as an after thought
Jerome Taylor for $150,000
and Mohammad Ashraful – I am told who has been found a master

they will all be led to the arena
to join the slaves from yesteryear and the dancing girls – to “entertain”

but then there were also those who were dragged to the marketplace
willing
but remained

the unwanted slaves

Brad Haddin – UNSOLD
Stuart Clark – UNSOLD
Chamara Kapugedera - UNSOLD
Nuwan Kulasekara – UNSOLD
Gulam Bodi – UNSOLD
Morne van Wyk – UNSOLD
Phil Jaques – UNSOLD
Ashwell Prince – UNSOLD
Andre Nel – UNSOLD
Daren Powell – UNSOLD
Jerome Taylor – UNSOLD
Steven Smith – UNSOLD
Shakib Al Hasan – UNSOLD
Mohammad Ashraful – UNSOLD
Ashley Noffke – UNSOLD
Tamim Iqbal – UNSOLD
Jon Moss – UNSOLD
Bryce McGain – UNSOLD
James Franklin – UNSOLD
Ramnaresh Sarwan – UNSOLD
Michael Klinger – UNSOLD
Kaushalya Weeraratne – UNSOLD
Prasanna Jayawardene – UNSOLD
Dominic Thornely – UNSOLD
Samit Patel – UNSOLD
Yusuf Abdulla – UNSOLD
Daniel Harris – UNSOLD
Kemar Roach – UNSOLD
Aaron Bird – UNSOLD
Michael Dighton – UNSOLD
Michael Hill – UNSOLD
Brett Geeves – UNSOLD

sent back
to rejoin their ‘unglamorous’ team mates in the mundanes of the low-paid national nets
pretending it was no big deal to have been rejected,

and to keep their desire and greed burning
till next year

hopefully they have learnt the lesson that IPL is not about playing good cricket -
it is about entertaining in a circus

indian premier league©hinaman

[Painting: Slave market in early medieval Eastern Europe - by Sergei Ivanov]