Abhijit Speaks :

Today, I am going to look at some kind of strange coincidence if one may call it thus. The idea striked me a few times, but more prominently when I was discussing something about recent election results in Delhi with a friend of mine.

As it turns out, if one watches the composition of Indian Cricket Team, one can deduce certain facts about attractive investment destinations or ‘happening places’ so to speak.

The Indian Cricket Team for the greater part of the history of the cricket in India was dominated by players in Mumbai, infact at one point of time there were as many as six or seven people from Mumbai representing India. This was the period when Mumbai achieved its status as financial capital of India and Mumbai and Maharashtra achieved the most developed state status.

Things started changing a bit by the turn of the century – Circa 2000. Indian Cricket team was dominated by players from Bangalore, almost 5-6 players in the team were from Bangalore alone. This dominance got faded away just as quickly as it was achieved. In the following five to six years, Bangalore ended up attracting the highest investment and became a ‘happening place’ just like Mumbai.

So where would you put your money if you look at the Cricket team composition of Today? Some themes emerge -

Delhi and Gujarat – There are about 4-5 players from Delhi and 3-4 players from Baroda (which is a place in Gujarat)

Chattisgarh – Our captain is from a little know place called Ranchi in Chattisgadh, Zharkhand. Though Ranchi per say may not be “the place” to invest, it certainly indicates most happening places in India or where the maximum investment is likely to happen are the so called ’second rung’ cities in India.

Anybody?