Having been fooling millions of Indians (as I don't believe that a billion Indians watch this sport) for a very very long time, Board of Cricket Control India should come clean and stop saying that their cricket team is a NATIONAL TEAM representing India as a country!
They have openly made tamasha of the sport and turning it into a money-making racket with all the populist measures and in turn doing nothing for society.
Run by rich people it has always been a means to earn more and more and one has never heard of BBCI making any role in the development of the nation at large.
It's disgusting to see how they ran down the newly launched Indian Cricket League as if they own Indians and their cricketing!!!
They could not see any body taking away the moolah from right down their noses! They banned the star cricketer of India, ex-skipper Kapil Dev from BCCI and all of the games!
Imagine the guts BBCI struts off. WHY?
Because they know that cricket is an addiction in India. One sporting event people make any excuse to stay back to watch the game. Ridiculous but true.
Here are a few of the links where BCCI has been pulled many a times but as they have a huge bank balance and can influence anyone in this nation they have always gone scot free. Now they have met their nemesis in ICL.
This link talks of the BCCI v/s CBI
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2000/dec/08bcci.htm
This above mentioned article is a case where the CBI was looking into the money-making racket being run by BCCI in the garb of exerting players to play more than stipulated so they could make money!
Next
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2001/feb/14bcci.htm
February 14, 2001
Delhi HC to hear case against BCCI in March
The Delhi High Court will resume hearing on March 1 a public interest case filed last year against alleged lack of transparency in the national cricket board's activities, lawyers said on Wednesday.
Two cricket fans filed the case in April last year seeking greater openness in the Board of Control for Cricket in India election procedures and financial accounts.
The case, due to be heard on Wednesday, was postponed after government lawyers said they needed time to prepare their arguments against the accusations.
"We wanted to file some affidavits and asked the court for more time," a BCCI lawyer said.
Lawyer Rahul Mehra and businessman Shantanu Sharma named the government, the BCCI and the Delhi and District Cricket Association in their petition before the Delhi High Court.
The petition stated that BCCI spent only 1.1 per cent of the money it earned and 2.2 per cent of its total expenditure in 1998-99 on coaching.
The petition added that South Africa spent 20 times that amount on coaching in the 1998-99 season.
Mehra said the court had asked the board to clarify the points raised in the petition.
The Indian board had argued that since it was an autonomous body, it was not obliged to respond to a writ petition.
"They get income tax exemption, benefits from the government and the team selected by them is called the Indian national team. Under these grounds, we have stated a writ petition can be maintainable against them," Mehra said.
Next on the list is the current dialogues/discussions/debates which
state that BCCI is not liable to tell anyone (common man) any details
of their acts as they are a private body.
http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/2648-bcci-not-covered-rti-law.html
Next read the link's cache copied down:
http://indiarti.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
Enjoy cricket, don’t pose nasty queries
You have cheered them on, contributed to their salary by watching them play and even cried at their defeat. But as a cricket fan, you do not have the right to know what went wrong with Team India in the 2007 World Cup.The three tell-all reports submitted to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday by the team’s coach, captain and manager would not be released to the public. Only “select” portions from them were disclosed by BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah in a concise two-page statement.
“It is shocking that the BCCI earns crores of rupees by selling sponsorship and television rights valued on the basis of public viewership, and yet it is not answerable to the very people,” said Amitava Athle, a cricket enthusiast. Cricket fans even called up this newspaper to inquire if the Right to Information (RTI) Act could be used to access the reports.
According to RTI activist Shailesh Gandhi, the information Act could only be used to obtain information from a government body, which is one controlled or financed by the government. BCCI, a 79-year-old autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, does not fall into this category.
Next you get to read the actual politics behind the BCCI and ICL - highly recommended reading!
http://blogs.cricinfo.com/cricinfoselect/archives/2007/07/wake_up_and_smell_the_opportun.php
Again a well versed cricket fan writes:
http://mutiny.in/2007/09/15/bcci-vs-icl/
All the numerous criticism of BCCI goes to show how they have managed to keep us Indians in a belief that the team we see on the ground is indeed our NATIONAL TEAM!
WHAT A FARCE!
Shun BCCI !
Shun Cricket!
Concentrate on Hockey! 18 Goals our NATIONAL TEAM scores and NOWHERE but in a nondescript sports page it gets a mention!!!!!
WHAT LUCK they didn't OMIT the NEWS!
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