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| The Indian Political League: It’s Just not Cricket |
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| Pitched By Cricket360 Analyst | |||||||
| Wednesday, 25 March 2009 | |||||||
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In the fracas that the IPL has been reduced to this year, what has emerged is that cricket in India is fraught with politics, and that everyone tries to score political points off their rivals whenever possible. The BCCI is emerged as an overbearing, inflexible entity that seeks to impose its will on anyone else, including the Indian government. For the BCCI the only important things are power and profit. No regard either for the players or the cricket fans has been shown, on whom everything actually hinges including the clout of the BCCI.
As the cricket news of the IPL Season 2 moving out of India sinks into our politicians; their politicking antennae immediately go up. They at once start to examine the issue to see what political mileage can be squeezed out of the unseemly imbroglio. Indian politicians doubtless tend to sniff out where the money, the power and publicity is, and they zero in on the IPL for scoring political points. This year the IPL is undoubtedly the Indian Political League. Never before would international cricket have been witness to an episode such as the IPL Season 2 which is unfolding before our eyes. If the politicians have seen this as a great issue for getting cheap publicity ahead of the elections, the BCCI and the IPL officials are not far behind in dragging politics into the fray. The IPL was swift in condemning Congress ruled states as being unsupportive in matters of security, whereas it was practically all the states that expressed an inability to lend support in the days of the elections, their security reserves already being stretched at the time. The IPL this year has become about petty politics, king sized egos, and big business. It is not bothered to give a thought to what impression the international cricket community forms of India based on this bickering and one up-manship that everyone is indulging in. In the process of BCCI maintaining an unyielding and inflexible posture they have totally ignored what the cricket fans and the cricket players in India think or want. Further this is displayed in India in a poor light not just because of the politics but because this is now likely to cast a doubt on India’s ability to hold international cricket events safely and securely.
3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."Newer news items:
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