BCCI's rift with ICC

[puneets]

Lalit Modi's letter to TOI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... 153980.cms
'Snooty officials more like masters, not execs'
Lalit Modi
[ 12 Oct, 2006 0117hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

These 'whiz kids' are sitting in judgment over the work of Indian officials who have spent a lifetime promoting the game.

Some of the ICC officials, in fact, are using the tactics adopted by the East India Company to prevent BCCI from organising the Champions Trophy properly.

The avaricious and snooty officials are behaving more as masters and less as paid executives. ICC has asked for the moon from all the hosting associations: Mohali, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Mumbai's CCI.

Does it make sense holding matches if the staging associations end up losing money? Also, if ICC wants new facilities, shouldn't it pay for them?

Imagine, a country which is filling ICC's coffers is being treated like this. My friend Jaggu Dalmiya was shrewd enough to realise this and passed on this unwanted baby to places like Dhaka and Nairobi.

They hosted two events but they were like begane shaadi me Abdulla deewana .

[puneets]

Another article by Lalit Modi

http://cricket.indiatimes.com/ICCs_empt ... 153723.cms

ICC - the new East India Company
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2155579.cms

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 12,00.html

ICC accused of neo-colonialism

"Everything including accreditation and security is being handled by companies based in London or South Africa who have no clue about ground realities here," Modi wrote in The Times of India.

[PKBasu]

Good to see that part of the new regime in the BCCI is beginning to comprehend the absurd neo-colonialism of the ICC's white elites (of whom Raj Singh Dungarpur has been an integral, if slightly subservient member). And in the bargain some of them (Lalit Modi, for one!) are beginning to grudgingly acknowledge the miracle that Jaggu Dalmiya wrought in ICC attitudes by shifting the balance of power decisively toward India and Asia. Occasionally he went too far (for instance, in pushing Bangladesh into test status prematurely, partly to bolster his support base), and eventually he couldn't quite keep control of his flock at home (the BCCI itself, which he as a bania had always struggled to wrest away from the old British-licking aristocracy that created the infrastructure of cricket in India).

I recall being at a World Cup game at the Hove (Sussex) in 1999, and finding the then-President of the ICC (Dalmiya) alongwith his friend Mascarenhas, sitting in the common stands with his tie and blazer. Even as President of the ICC (and during an India game), they wouldn't do him the courtesy of inviting him into the hallowed precincts of the official box....

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket ... 048894.stm

India are prepared to pull out of future one-day tournaments, including the World Cup, rather than sign a new deal with the game's governing body.
Modi told the BBC that no-one could force India to field a team in ICC competitions. "We don't have to play all tournaments. If things don't work out, we could choose not to play in the Champions Trophy and the World Cup."

[jaydeep]

ICC hits BCCI below the belt

Lambasting the BCCI for its inability to groom a winning team, Speed said, “I don’t judge a sporting organisation on the basis of the amount of money it has. I have three-fold criteria — how its team performs, facilities at its grounds and hospitality for visiting dignitaries and how it uses its natural resources (read population) to produce great cricketers.”

[jaydeep]

And now BCCI hit back accusing Malcom Speed for interfering in there affairs and deriding Indian cricket.

BCCI slams ICC for interfering in Indian cricket affairs

In a strongly worded statement, BCCI's Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty also challenged Speed by asking whether he will have the guts to say that the England and Wales Cricket Board is not running its affairs well because the England team has never won the World Cup, cricket's piece de resistance.

[puneets]

Speed's statement was pedestrian at best.