Vikram Goyal's Weblog

I read with amazement at the new world order according to the short sighted motely crew that calls itself the BCCI, short for the Board of Control for Cricket in India. This is the same Board that requires Supreme Court rulings to hold and adjudicate Board members and to decide on Television rights every time there is a series of note. This is the same Board whose elections look like the script of a bad Bollywood blockbuster. This is the same Board that doesn't still, have a media manager who can be the single source of information. This is the same Board that doesn't even have a website. And this Board wants to rule World Cricket when it runs itself in such unprofessional manner?

Where do I stop criticizing this Board which has done nothing but harm Indian Cricket, and allowed itself to fill the pockets of its office bearers. Nothing that the Board has ever done, has been for the benefit of Indian Cricket. The rationalization is given by the fact that the Indian subcontinent generates the maximum revenue, so it should be allowed to dictate the terms. Ha! Like the Indian software industry, which has prospered inspite of the Government of India, Indian Cricket revenue has been generated inspite of this Board.

With so much professed money, I wish the Board would do something for the state of Indian stadiums before taking on World Cricket and messing it up as well. I once went to a Cricket match in Mumbai, and vowed never to go back. It was a filthy stadium, with toilets that would shame a slum, a floor that was full of grease and mud, seats made our of plaster and generally, an apathetic concern for the people who pay for watching it. I wish it would appoint a media manager and a CEO. I wish it would be transparent in its financial statements. I wish..

Oh what I am wishing for,, this is the same Board that once scheduled the Indian cricket team to be in two different places at the same time, in spite of having a tours and fixtures committee.. He He. This is the same Board that wants to start its own production house for televising cricket (God forbid!). This is the same board that wants to kill the golden goose by scheduling too many games with Australia and Pakistan, forgetting that after watching the same teams playing against each other every year, it kindda of gets boring. Like repetitious sentences.

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My mind boggles at the what goes inside the head of an NRI (Non-Resident Indian) parent. Sample this (taken from coverage of the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (Overseas Indians Day)):

"I would like a girl of flawless complexion with drop-dead gorgeous looks and figure of a model, who cooks like her mother and could even earn for herself, to be my daughter-in-law".

Arrghh. Is he getting a wife for his adoring son or buying a car?

What about his son hey? Is he Adonis himself, who earns like Bill Gates, and is the epitome of the good Lord Ram. The sad fact is that if his son was any thinker and such a catch, he wouldn't be asking his parents to get him married and then setting such high standards on his parents-bought-wife. What morons.

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Sometimes, I wonder aloud about how lax some Australians are about the prevalant drug system in this country. Sometimes, I just blog. And the first entry for this year comes from a rumor that Michelle Leslie, you know, the pretty as a picture convicted drug felon, is being offered a role in the latest Dancing with the Stars phenomenon. Sigh! What is worse? That Dancing in the Stars continues to be a hit show, or that she is being referred to as a celebrity, all convictions forgotten. Shouldn't she be on the British show "I am a celebrity, get me out of here".

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