Niranjan Shah, BCCI secretary, told Cricinfo that its contracted players - including VVS Laxman, Piyush Chawla and Ajit Agarkar - who have signed or are in the process of signing with English counties this season are being "advised" to pull out if the county has ICL players on its rolls.
What's BCCI thinking? They are God and can do anything? For some of the players it is hard to get county contracts and even if they manage to get it, with this new rule, they should get permission from BCCI. Ridiculous. If BCCI has problems with ECB and ICL they better take firm decisions at the management level and not kill players with annoying rules. The following subclause to the above rule from Niranjan Shah is classic:
Shah, however, clarified that "non-ICL" players from these county teams will be allowed to take part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) - Hampshire's Dimitri Mascarenhas had played for Rajasthan Royals in the tournament's first season.
What's next? Advice players not to talk and take some useful tips from Sandip Patil or Dean Jones or Micheal Bevan because they are associated with ICL. BCCI's act can only be associated with the dirty games that we see in politics.
1 comments:
Sir,
BCCI is just a private club (like an apartment's owners association , a recreation club , etc..) , which is registered under societies act in madras.
a private club can have any number of rules to bind its members.
a member must act as per the rules(however ridiculous) or he can leave any time.
I also wish to humbly point out that, the indian nation does not have a national team for the sport of cricket - not even a govermental sports body for cricket.all other games in india have national sports bodies.
BCCI is just a private club , that has received recognition from ICC and is not bound by government at all - they are even getting illegal diplomatic visas for international travels,which they are not eligible for,as they dont represent government.
Even a new club like royapuram rockers or alwarpet cc - can have get recognition from icc - if they satisfy certain rules as stipulated by icc.
Regards,
Venkat
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