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Craig HillBCCI better than ECB, says Greg Matthews
May 9th 2008 09:46
According to ex-Aussie cricketer, Greg Matthews – he had starred in that famous tied Madras Test in 1986 – he is very happy with the fact that the Asian block is one of the most powerful one in the ICC, and is vurtually ruling the cricket world. The reason?
Hear it from the horse's mouth, "I'm very, very happy now that Asia is running the game now. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job".
Now while I agree with the line that the English did nothing much for the upliftment of the game in general, and nothing in particular to globalize the same, one cannot be sure whether monopoly of the power in the hands of one, makes too much sense. One has already seen the BCCI flexing its financial muscle on more than one occasion, sometime for a just cause, but at times, a little unnecessarily.
And the fact that, with so much power, needs to be an equal proportion of responsibility needs to be drilled down the BCCI throat as well. We have had too many instances in the world where monopoly has given rise to dictatorship – whether sport or politics – and the eventual fall of the entity.
For now, it needs to be complimented for its innovation, IPL, which is going to change the way cricket would be played and viewed some decades later.
Hear it from the horse's mouth, "I'm very, very happy now that Asia is running the game now. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job".
Now while I agree with the line that the English did nothing much for the upliftment of the game in general, and nothing in particular to globalize the same, one cannot be sure whether monopoly of the power in the hands of one, makes too much sense. One has already seen the BCCI flexing its financial muscle on more than one occasion, sometime for a just cause, but at times, a little unnecessarily.
And the fact that, with so much power, needs to be an equal proportion of responsibility needs to be drilled down the BCCI throat as well. We have had too many instances in the world where monopoly has given rise to dictatorship – whether sport or politics – and the eventual fall of the entity.
For now, it needs to be complimented for its innovation, IPL, which is going to change the way cricket would be played and viewed some decades later.
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