India’s Cricket Victory: Can It Lead to Success in Other Sports? by Ignatius Chithelen Knowledge@Wharton April 7, 2011

India’s Cricket Victory: Can It Lead to Success in Other Sports? 




By Ignatius Chithelen

Knowledge@Wharton April 7, 2011

India has just won the Cricket World Cup. Everyone — from industrialists to state governments and the country’s cricket board — is going to great lengths to reward the cricketers for their success. The adulation will likely encourage a generation of schoolchildren to participate in the sport and view captain M.S. Dhoni as a role model for coolness under pressure and the desire to be a good citizen. But cricket is not enough, says Ignatius Chithelen, managing partner of Banyan Tree Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm. There must be adequate investment in other sports, too, Chithelen argues in this opinion piece.

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