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An opportunity for the IPL to clean itself up
The instinct would be to call this a bleak day for Indian cricket but the optimist would find compelling evidence that in the chaos of the IPL lies the BCCI's best opportunity to fashion a world-class league,[url=http://woolrichdeutschland.albirank.net/][b]Woolrich Arctic Jacket Shop[/b][/url]. If only there were equally compelling signs that the board is actually engaged in that process.
On the face of it, Sunday's decision by the BCCI to summarily end the participation of two franchises in the IPL is a long-overdue step towards cleaning up the IPL. Both franchises have been under a cloud of late, with the Indian government, among others, over issues of ownership and accounting. The links between Lalit Modi,[url=http://duveticasale.albirank.net/][b]Duvetica Kappa[/b][/url], the former IPL chairman, and Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab are well documented; Modi himself has not denied these links, merely pointing out that the facts were known to the BCCI from the start.
This is the end of the IPL as we know it - the end of the friends' club, the inner circle that invested in a friend's dream and turned it into a billion-dollar reality, in the process attracting the world and her boyfriend. For three years we were dazzled - by the stars from Bollywood, by the line of cricketers seeking entry,[url=http://duveticaonline.olimx.com/][b]Duvetica piumini italy[/b][/url], by the deals that were signed, for ever-increasing sums of money. Not once but twice over: The TV deal, the sale of franchise rights, the player auction; and the renegotiated deal, the second player auction and the second sale of franchise rights. It had to end and it did, in spectacular and dramatic fashion,[url=http://rogervivieroutlet.webmium.com/][b]roger vivier Shoes australia[/b][/url], as the BCCI reclaimed their territory.
The pendulum has now swung to the other extreme, to sobriety bordering on the severe. The IPL is now another subcommittee of the BCCI, the self-styled "commissioner" replaced by a chairman who knows his way around the old school of management. The governing council has been pared down, its term and powers limited, the existing questionable deals subjected to scrutiny. It has even got former cricket stars to work for free. So much has changed since Modi left.
So much has changed and, in a sense, so little. The BCCI is no longer hostage to Modi's whims but is run by the dictates of a committee that moves in equally mysterious and autocratic ways. What else explains the fact that Sunday's decision was preceded by no notice, not even any negotiations between the IPL and two of its major stakeholders, who have already spent tens of millions of dollars building up their franchises,[url=http://duveticaoutletcanada.halod.com/][b]duvetica jackets canada online[/b][/url], and had committed to much more? In treating the two franchises as if they were mutinous state associations,[url=http://monclerdownjacketsoutlet.albirank.net/][b]Cheap Moncler Down Jackets For Men moncler coats outlet on sale[/b][/url], the board has done them a huge disservice - and revealed a lack of the sophistication and corporate protocol that its size and status demands. As Rajasthan Royals' statement said, "if the only way to achieve this [fair treatment] is through legal recourse, then that is a shame for those that seek to invest in sport in India".
At least the BCCI can say it has swept clean the shadowy conflicts of interest that have dogged the IPL from the start.
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Those are double standards that strike at the principle of fair play and transparency - but these are mere ideals. The biggest victims of Sunday's events are flesh and blood, the fans of the two franchises - those who went to the ground,[url=http://monclerjassengoedkopekoop.albirank.net/][b]Moncler Jassen Online Nederland Winkelcentrum[/b][/url], having bought tickets (and shirts and other merchandise) and cheered for their teams. They have invested emotion - famously so in the case of Rajasthan - while following their teams through some unremarkable seasons. The IPL was supposed to be a different experience for the Indian fan - and it has been, to some extent - but scrapping these two franchises shows that the BCCI just hasn't got the idea. You can run your domestic season,[url=http://woolrichoutletitalia.albirank.net/][b]Woolrich Giacche Outlet online Italia[/b][/url], and even your home international matches, without factoring in the fans, but not a league where the individual franchises depend on those fans. Ask any supporter in Jaipur or Mohali who spent a few thousand rupees each season on a side that now seems to have been airbrushed out of the picture with Stalinist efficiency.
The irony is that the BCCI can run a pretty good tournament when it wants to; witness the Champions League, shorn of Modi's ego and excesses and focusing on the game rather than the name. It's almost everything the IPL is not: a fortnight as against six weeks, streamlined as opposed to bloated; cricket as opposed to entertainment - and, admittedly, at the other end of the TV ratings scale. Whether that is the influence of the two partnering boards, of Australia or South Africa, is a moot point but the biggest stakeholder is the BCCI.
That is the opportunity before the BCCI. With income guaranteed for the next few years, the IPL should be the easiest league to run. Having a clean, transparent and efficient tournament is,[url=http://woolrichoutletitalia.albirank.net/][b]Woolrich Giacche Outlet online Italia Woolrich Piumini Vendita italy[/b][/url], however,[url=http://parajumpersoutletdanmark.albirank.net/][b]Køb Parajumpers Jakke outlet PJS Parajumpers jakker Udsalg Danmark 2013[/b][/url], a whole new ball game.
Mr. Gupta, good dream, but what makes you even dream that such a thing can happen !
Cricket administrators media all over the world have got opportunities to improve the setup just chosen to look for excuses to not improve
Public re-action to India Vs Australia at Sydney 2008 gave ICC an opportunity incentive to improve fairplay on the field by ensuring a more active 3rd Umpire. ICC saw the right direction, pointed to it but chose to ensure sufficient leeway to ensure that the right direction is not taken ! Well-timed "Human Errors" from umpires are a strategic way of re-defining the result of a Cricket Match ICC does not want to eliminate the option !
Cricinfo gets the opportunity through public comments on numerous occassions to influence ICC ICC's management in the right direction what does Cricinfo staff do - censor the public posts (rather than incur the wrath of Dave Richardson Martin Williamson by publishing inconvenient facts).
I am frankly amazed at this article. Mr Gupta sees in the BCCI's actions an opportunity to clean the stables and clear the IPL and cricket of insider trading, corruption, nepotism and all the rest. Yet his article itself is full of details that make it amply clear that (a) the BCCI has no such agenda, let alone the probity required for such a thing,[url=http://rogervivieroutlet.webmium.com/][b]Roger Vivier Shoes Online[/b][/url], and (b) the offenses of the expelled franchises are the norm rather than the exception amongst all the franchises. Where on earth does he get the idea then that this could be the beginning of a clean-up? It is what is obvious to everyone: a factional fight in which Mr Srinivasan's faction currently has the upper hand over yesterday's top-dog Mr Modi. To think of the BCCI as a clean up agency is akin to staffing your local fire department with prominent arsonists and expecting it to work efficiently and impartially.
Executive editor, India A football lover and a veteran of the print media, Jayaditya sold out on both to join the crazy gang at ESPNcricinfo. It's a decision that often left him wondering whether he'd stumbled into the wrong room by mistake, till he realised that many of his colleagues switch the TV channel from cricket to football when they think nobody's watching. He does have cricketing heroes: Viv Richards and Steve Waugh share space with Steve Coppell (the player and manager) and Bryan Robson (the player!). Having covered two world cups (the football version) and a Champions League final, he can now set his sights on fulfilling other ambitions - including the launch of "Footinfo". Watch this space for more details.
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