Cricketjoshilla himself said it was a pick out of wilderness, he made a thread you can search that up.
You can write a long essay, but you clearly have no knowledge regarding the North American system with whom you are comparing your ipl with.
Just because some coach showed up at a Uni match again means zilch.
If you are really interested in knowing the NBA/NFL system you do a simple google search.
Me writing an essay wont change your opinion as anything that makes India look inferior wont be accepted by you.
Sports in North America are played from a school level. Everyone is part of the system, everyone is given a chance. Those who excel can continue playing from their school and could join separate clubs aswell where their performance in tracked.
1. Cricket in India is also played at School level apart from another sports.
Intra School and Intra Club competitions in the School are pretty normal, in Cricket, Hockey, Basketball, Swimming, Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis etc. Heck my small town Hoshiarpur has a full blown annual sports competition now imagine cities like Mumbai/Delhi/Bangalore. The same way performances are tracked and then these kids get to play at National level championship in these sports.
Inter school competations are played, and for Hockey different club matches are played. Ice Hockey is started from the age of 5. You have to be in the league system by the age of 11.
2. Similar, As described above. But, the difference is you need not be in system all the time. There are some wild picks e.g. Siraj played local leagues upto age of 22 before being picked and groomed and Phogat Sisters directly went to play for National Championship after coaching directly from their dad. But there are academies also e.g PV Sindhu/Saina come from GopiChands badminton academies. My niece has played State Level Badminton and every second month there was a tournament to attend to in different part of India.
As you grow older and start performing, the NCAA keeps track of the school performances. Than you also have different scouting reports coming in, you have the Eliteprospect that keep track of performance. To be honest its not these scouts that make a difference, its the record keeping that makes the difference. Each and everything is recorded.
3. This was not happening in 2000s but increasingly it has started to happen a lot. My niece who plays badminton has full access to here scores on a mobile app and more Digital/Data driven techniques are being employed in Indian Sport as well. Guess who is developing these apps and software even for the world as well.
Than there is the scholorship system. University sports is taken very seriously aswell, especially football. Thus, if you have done well in High School Football and have a good statistical record, you can get a Havard or a State University Scholorship. In the Scholorship you ahve to maintain a certain GPA and get to play with the Uni team.
4. Lot of Schools and Universities have Sports Quota and Scholarships in India as well. There are lot of Schools in Mumbai e.g Prithvi Shaw moved to Rizwi college and got a scholarship. In Chandigarh for example YPS(http://ypschd.com/content/school-scholarships-and-awards) and there are million more schools in different sports. They need to maintain certain attendance but just pass the exams, no requirement of GPA.
I was on a similar scholarship in year 10 and 11 but dropped out as I decided to pursue Engineering.
I am just touching surface here as there are millions of schools in India having sports infrastructure. And Govt. has also increased spending in last 10 years with much less corruption, hence a few medals in Olympics.
There is a proper Archery and Shooting Programme in Different States, Hockey Scholarships from Jallandhar to Orissa.
After that there is a draft system for all the leagues. These drafts picks are made against the scouting reports and the performances of all the players. About 700-800 NHL players are drafted each year. The player that goes no.1 is already predicted 6 months before the draft based on the statistical data that is available and the performance of the player for the last 2-3 years.
5. This has started to happen with the League cricket but in other sports it will take time as more private leagues are popping up for Kabaddi/Badminton etc. Drafting is bit different in cricket in a sense that you as a player get fed from District to State level based on your performance and then get a chance in the Ranji matches.
Even after drafted, these players dont even get to start the season with the actual team. They are shifted to the farm team where they have to prove themselves again and than get selected in the main franchise team.
You are making a mocking post by saying do they see kids born in hospital and directly play them lol... Majority of players are those that started playing the game at a young age of 6-7. For Hockey you need to learn ice skating by 5, for baseketball ther are programs and even school leagues where they take kids as young as 6 to 7.
I remember playing volleyball in school. We used to have a proper coaching system for volleyball where we practice to develop bumping the ball with our hands against the wall. And after doing different practices we ended up having games, and in games we learned the different position for attack and defense.
In Pakistan, volleyball is played, but no one teaches these things.
You can talk about hte IPL revenues all you want, but you cannot compare the league to NA leagues because those leagues are successful due to the sporitng culture that exists and is integrated with their education aswell.
Most of the cricketers that play are usually those who are out of school and play for a club with whom they practice everyday not knowing that what they are doing would even benefit them or not.
If you are genuinely interested, you can always do a google search to further understand the drafting of those leagues.
I agree to most of the other points as these leagues/sports/academies have been running in USA/UK for close to 80-100 years whereas the sporting infrastructure has really started to take shape in India for past 20 years.
Middle class is growing and more parents are accepting their kids to go into sports.
Draft day is one of the most important events over there, and here we have people calling IPL equivalent to those leagues
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