Will BCCI learn from Cricket Australia?

Look at Cricket Australia and look at how they work as a unit. I am not talking about the teams, about the administration. And compare them to the BCCI. The body is in shambles and the administration is a disgrace now. All starting from A C Muthiah, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar and RS Mahendra are equally responsible. The problem is actually not lack of leadership this time around, its the overdose of it, atleast the offering side of it.

Indian cricket certainly owes a lot fo JagMohan Dalmiya for what he has done to the game, its popularity and to the selection process over these years. But, its certainly time to let the successors take over the administration of this game in India. On the contrary, he wants to continue to boss over the cricket administration and hold the game down securely like Ganesha does his mouse. It is a shame if you look at the elections game he played in preventing the Maharashtra members from voting for Sharad Pawar. All respect to Pawar for not making a big deal out of it and being generous enough to continue to support the game.

BCCI will be served well by taking a few leaves from the books of Cricket Australia. BCCI needs patrons of the game, not administrators who just want power. Not administrators who have a lobby behind them with vested interests. More retired cricketers, who have played the game and are passionate about it, should try and get into adminstration. Kiran More is a great example. Look at the Board of Directors and the Executives of Cricket Australia. You'd find numerous past cricketers.

Dalmiya must feel ashamed to even ask that a new position be created to accommodate him as a honorary member. Mr.Dalmiya, Honor SHOULD BE GIVEN to you, it is not something that you ASK FOR. Just the basics of sociology.

Hopefully cricketers of our current times take some interest in administration and sometime in the future there will be a prerequisite for a BCCI administrator to have been actively associated with the game at the state level as a player or as an administrator for atleast three years.