We must hold an e-mail or online voting of some sorts from the cricket loving public in India to select the various positions of the BCCI, including and not limited to the team coach, the president and other office bearers, the manager etc. After all we are the ones paying for these privileged class people for all their excesses. So we must have some rights. At least by having a voting system we will eliminate some of the vagaries of the corrupt bureaucracy that has crept into the system. Also I feel we need some professional managers holding the key positions for managing the administration. And the coach and selectors shall be selected on merit from among an elite panel of shortlisted former Indian cricketers.
RE:Rajib Mukherjee
by Dinesh K on Dec 04, 2007 10:21 AM Permalink
>>>After all we are the ones paying for these privileged class people for all their excesses
Wrong.BCCI is a strictly private organization.If there had been a parallel cricket organization, then BCCI team would have been called "BCCI team" not "Indian team".
RE:Rajib Mukherjee
by Rajib Mukherjee on Dec 05, 2007 12:02 PM Permalink
Cricket is still a spectator sport. If there is no spectator there is no money and there is no "excesses" for these "privileged class". at the end of the day all these advertisements, gate money, promotions, sponsorships etc. are all because we consumers do watch cricket, spending hours in front of the TV. Waiting in line since early morning to get tickets for a test match. If you mean they can afford to ignore us spectators (which they can never, even in their dreams) the idea is humorous. Well the whole idea of ICL came out of these high handedness of the BCCI. I am sure there is the business interest in all of these, but in this fast paced, ultra consumerist society, if I have the money I will go to another shop, I won't wait. If BCCI is not giving what we want, we shall go to ICL.
