Indian cricketers arrive in Adelaide to start their summer tour of Australia Glenelg District Cricket Club president Bob Snewin expects 4000 people to watch the match. IN THE city of Ranchi in eastern India a temple exists where worshippers can pray to their god - Indian cricket captain Mehendra Singh Dhoni. So fanatical are Dhoni's fans, they've erected a statue of the cricketer within the temple walls to whom they can pray. "We (have) constructed a temple (for the) god of cricket, Mehendra Singh Dhoni,"" the fan club's president Jitendra Singh says. Search hard enough and you'll probably find similar temples contrcuted around cricket-mad India to honour past gods like Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar. India's Rohit Sharma has made history scoring a second ODI double hundred in their win against Sri Lanka. But the changing face of Indian cricket means the national team that lands in Adelaide on Saturday to commence its tour of Australia is made up of more than just gods. The rise of the glamorous Indian Premier League (IPL) over the past five years means cricket is more than just a religion to India's 1.2 billion people, it's big business. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and fast bowler Varun Aaron. Its leading players are now multi-millionaires, many of whom live in a virtual rock-star world with close ties to the Bollywood film industry. According to Forbes Magazine, Dhoni has a net worth of $120 million, about half of what Cricket Australia turned over in 2012. MS Dhoni on the cover of India's Business Today magazine. The keeper-batsman has more than 3.23 million Twitter followers and more than 20 endorsement deals, including with Pepsi and Reebok. He owns a stake in professional Indian football club Chennaiyin FC and his love of cars led him to also buy into Supersport World Championship team Mahi Racing Team India. Dhoni's own fleet of cars and bikes is too big to squeeze into some Adelaide car yards, with a yellow Porsche 911 and a hellcat, among his favourites. The evolution of India's cricketers from gods to rockstars began in 2007, with the berth of the IPL. Sony Entertainment paid what in retrospect was a modest $1 billion for the rights to televise the twenty20 competition for 10 years and Indian businessmen began signing the best players in the world to local club franchises. The competition fed India's thirst for fast cricket action and is now worth an estimated $4 billion. The wealth and glamour has flowed through to the players. Indian cricket's ties with the country's other great love - the Bollywood film industry - have grown close and many of its players have been linked to romances with leading actors. All-rounder Yuvraj Singh has been linked a string of starlets including Kim Sharma, Minissha Lamba and Deepika Padukone. Indian actress Deepika Padukone. Cricketer Yuvraj Singh Source: News Limited Fast bowler Zaheer Khan was also romantically linked to actor Isha Sharvani. But the rise in the glamour of Indian cricket has had its victims. The IPL's notorious party-scene - where the lights are dim, the music is loud and celebrities are plentiful - is where young Indian fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is believed to have fallen into the web of illegal bookmarkers. The seamer has been banned for life for spot fixing. The last time India toured Australia for a Test series in 2012 they were smashed 4-0. At the time, their former coach, Adelaide-born Test great Greg Chappell, said the ease of life for cricketers in modern India had killed their thirst for success in long-from cricket. "Having worked with many of them and having been in the dressing room with them, Test cricket was too hard for most of them,"" Chappell said back in 2012. They can only make a lot of money playing 20-over cricket. India's Rohit Sharma set a ODI batting record of 264 runs against Sri Lanka a couple of weeks ago. Whether their hearts are in this four Test tour of Australia or not, the interest in India's rockstars will be intense from the moment they take to Glenelg Oval on Monday for a two-day tour match. Glenelg District Cricket Club president Bob Snewin expects 4000 people - many of them Indian expats - to attend the match and millions more to watch on TV. Originally published as Adelaide set to launch an Indian summer