Cricket This?

Awesome Two.

Cricket is a funny game and strange are the ways of its selectors. In the recent past, I mean after the Sourav Ganguly kick off, More is asking ‘more’. I fail to understand or rather every cricket fan in India, why should there be a probable list of 30 odd players, when you are sure to retain the magic or winning 15 combination. This time please read as 15 tried to play, as Sri Lanka tour is more than a fiasco. There are many questions and eyebrows raised at the same time.

Firstly, why should there be a tour when you are in doubt about two things. One is terrorism and the other is inclement climatic conditions. What will restrict us not to call off a sporting event in the light of organised terrorism? We can call off diplomatic talks, we can call off busses and trains, we can call off diplomatic ties, but why not a cricket team. It is most disgraceful to send a team and ask them to play about four overs and pack them back. Whose money are they wasting? Do the organizers feel a little accountable?

Secondly, why is the team sent there, which could not even play a match be retained for a forth coming series? What is the logic and strategy behind this? I presume that the team is picked up following certain norms, like playing conditions, players adoptability to those conditions, players track record and experience and most important their winning capability. It is shocking that the team is retained just like that.

Thirdly, the selection committee. Kiran More as the chairman of the committee must be enjoying his role as he has the power of Pawar and authority to drop as many players as he can instead of selecting them. The Ganguly episode is the worst thing to happen in the history of cricket selection in India and the credit goes to Kiran More.

Fourthly, why is there no transparency in the functioning of the BCCI and more specifically the selection committee? The honorary post and lack of accountability of its Chairman, makes things more apprehensive beyond anybody’s rightful imagination. Then the less we talk the better about the qualification of the present chairman and his ability to select a team or drop certain seasoned players, all in the name of experiments. Greg Chappel’s skills with More’s ability are sure to drag cricket into the grave. Why do we need a foreign coach, when we have living legends in cricket? In what way are these two stand out from so many finest cricketers around the world?

No prizes for guessing.